Quite large event Friday night

[Ahumadora]

Everything under control

[EdF]

Monster!

[tbob4]

Where is the beef?

[Ahumadora]

Was busy but will have more pics later.

[tbob4]

This has been great fun following - much appreciated!

[Ahumadora]

Learnt a new trick, how to keep hamburgers juicy n hot. The pot is filled with chick or beef stock. We smoked all the hamburger patties as They did not have room in their oven or grills.

[jerrybell]

Ahumadora Thanks for sharing. It's interesting to see how this gets done for such a large crowd. I'm curious about your hamburger storage. So the patties are fully cooked and you held them in hot beef stock until ready to serve?

[RichieB]

I'm not worthy...

[jecucolo]

There must be a river of fat running through those smokers! Thanks for sharing this event.

[Ahumadora]

Yup. About halfway through the cook I open the grease drain on Texas into a bucket. Filled a 20 liter bucket. I was scared of all that grease running into the fire and igniting. I had 2 grease fires in the other pits, but managed to snuff it out before damaging the food.

[Ahumadora]

I had the drain open on the way home, so there is probably a 50 km trail of grease from Buenos Aires to my place. You wouldn't want to be following too close.

[FireMan]

Slip sliding away!

[Henrik]

Yep, those smokers are absolutely loaded with meat! I'd love to cook for such a big event, busy as heck, but also lots of fun.

[RonB]

Amazing.

[klflowers]

That is pretty incredible.

[CaptainMike]

Did you have to do all of the hiring/personnel stuff as well?

[Ahumadora]

Nope, The catering/event service did all that. They just called me to rent the pits and assist cooking. Their 5 grill masters they had to do it didn't show, so 3 of us had to cook it all.

[Ahumadora]

We pretty much got abandoned and left 3 of us to cook all this. I was supposed to just monitor their 5 grillmasters.

[jecucolo]

Insanely beautiful

[EdF]

3 of you? You are BBQ Gods!

[Ahumadora]

They had all the food prepared ready to cook. Was not exactly how I would have liked , but wasn't my deal.

[Donw]

1 cook per 1000 people! And I’m sure you triumphed. I’m not a gambler but I would have bet on you even at those odds.

[Ahumadora]

This was just the meat. They had all the veges bread and things aside, with a staff of 50 and couldn't even even spare us any staff. Later in the night I got a couple of their helpers, but not till after the dinner rush. We just had to move the food to the tables in front of us. They took the meat inside to where the chefs plated it for the waiters.

[Ahumadora]

Don't be critical of me not getting a good bark on the meat. With that much quantity in the pit, there is so much humidity it was almost steaming the meat. With large cooks like this you don't need water in the pit. I did what I could but was under the gun to get the food cooked.

[klflowers]

Critical of you? Seriously? I want to be like you when I grow up.

[EdF]

klflowers - It would be like aspiring to be the Odysseus of BBQ!

[FireMan]

Ok, now it’s time to comment, ya just have ta wait ol’ Ahumadora out & see all the cookin & meat & big forks & big knives. He always delivers. Just to be involved in one of those things would be cool. Great job man & your crew. Give em a heads up for us!

[Henrik]

Awesome job! Being abandoned like that? Not cool, but there's just one thing to do: get over it (for the moment) and deliver. And you did. Overdeliver. Very impressive.