The early May Bank Holiday is another excuse for a Street Party
The general choice is to have the street party on Sunday. This is not a great day for me to be honest, we have a lot on that day but I’m committed, so what can we do?
I plan to keep things simple. Burgers and chicken wings, plus whatever anyone else brings to cook. This is the obvious choice as there is not really much in terms of cooking time for anything.
I’m also trying to be cheap, so the meat is supermarket bought.
Friday night I spend hand pressing 50 burgers, I have other things to do on the Saturday as well so I’m trying to keep ahead of the game.
I do add a rub to give them some seasoning but I can’t remember what it was (and I do now have a book to write my recipes down).
A friend bought me sub rubs for my birthday, so the wings are going to be rubbed with the Good Shit Rub to give it a whirl.
Sunday comes and I’m out all morning. I get back home at 1:30 and I’m out the door with the BBQ and all the bits I need into the street as quick as I can and I’m cooking by 2:15pm.
I get some of the wings in the rotisserie basket (fails as the weight is not even) and start getting the burgers on.
I am flipping and flipping and cooking burgers quite fast.
Once they are done I get the chicken wings out of the basket and onto the grill to finish up before the next batch (which take no time at all).
People start to come over and grab buns to put their burgers and cheese into, grabbing a wing or 2 as well. The report is that while the wings are nice, the ones from last year are better “can you do the ones you did last time when we do this again please?”
Once the wings are off, I get cooking other people’s food.
More burgers, sausages, chicken, kebabs, almost never ending.
At 4:45 I am done, I’ve cooked everything, I’ve enjoyed some food, everyone is content and there is food to last the night.
I get the BBQ cooled a bit and roll it back in the garden at 5:30 as I’ve got to go out again at 5:45!
In total, I think I cooked around 12KG of meat in 2.5 hours, the BBQ did not drop from 500f until I shut it down. I used nearly an entire hopper of coal as well.
I’ve never cooked so much, so fast in my life but it’s been worth it to see the neighbours happy.
Roll on the next one, I have plans
