Hosted my first grill skills class

[Caffeine88]

I love this idea, and I'm happy to see your other half shown up in the avatar, too.

My wife and I have had several requests to do a cooking class or two, but never got it together. Great job in making it actually happen!

[Richard Chrz]

It did, I thought I had shared it. But will find it.

[WillTravelForFood]

Group weber kettle classes can be fun.

The Austin food and wine festival (highly recommended) does a grilling class for about 200 people at one time.

The directions that were given were fairly easy and approachable (paraphrasing slightly, but pretty close to actual):

"put your fish on the grill"
puts fish on grill

"pour yourself a shot of tequila"
does a shot of tequila

"check on the fish. is it done yet?"
the fish is not done yet

"pour yourself a glass of wine"
pour and drink a glass of wine

"the fish should be done now"
OMG THE FISH IS FANTASTIC!

[RonB]

Did the article ever get published? If so, do you have a link?

[bardsleyque]

looks like fun!

[DSCatering]

Great job Richard. Not one in West GA that i know of.

[DavidNorcross]

Great idea Richard! Sounds like it was a huge success!

[LA Pork Butt]

It sounds like a really fun venture.

[zinfella]

Good going, Richard!

The best of luck to you in addressing this pretty much neglected area of kettle school'in. I'm too damn old and blind to do that teaching stuff myself, lucky I can still crank out stuff for me and GW. The main thing to pass on is to observe the rule to have fun, and don't run out of cold ones!

[Panhead John]

RonB Your answer of NO, would be wrong, grammar aside. Richard actually told me a big fight broke out among several hot twenty somethings….all wanting my number.
Apparently beer bellied, balding 65 year old men are in big demand.

[RonB]

With your talent and drive I have no doubt that you will achieve your goals Richard.

[RonB]

I'm no grammatical expert, but shouldn't that be "were there a lot of single chicks..."

And my guess fer the answer is "NO".

[Richard Chrz]

What I hope to do is once a month teach a class like this for 2-4 people, could think larger, but, trying to create it for friends and couples that would like an experience that they can pay for. From there, I’d like to get hired maybe once a month to cook the larger cuts for their own picnic, also, continue to sell bred, and cook once a week a shoulder for pulled pork that can be sectioned out in 1/4’s to full to go along side the bread for sandwich kits. From there I would like to sell a few shirts, some of the seasoning that I make for the meals while they are here or other. Take my down time every day and monetize time, not effort. I would like to buy a few of the items that I use and sell them here. Bread knives, kind of stuff. Also get a few sponsors from some of these companies for a YouTube channel sponsor, that would help when my arms get worse. But, coaching a cookout with low stress, and bringing people together, sharing stories etc, are the highest on the priority list. I’d also like to see more people gain confidence to go with a kettle. I’m already likely never going to actually catch up on bread orders, which is likely a good thing.

[Henrik]

Great to hear, it’s a lot of fun! I pride myself in having 50/50 mix of men/women in my last classes. Women need to use the grill(s) more. Keep it up!

[smokin fool]

I’m a lousy teacher, don’t have the patience for people when they make mistakes.
....did I mention I’m perfect😶...
Anyway I’ll dole out advice to those who ask but teach, hey, stranger thinks have happened.