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afternoon all,

planning on smoking my first pork shoulder for dinner this Friday and I am after some guidance on the size. Going to have 6 adults and 5 children. any suggestions/ball park figures welcome. thanks.

Gian

I'd say you'd want about 4/5kg of shoulder, and that may leave you with leftovers (not that that's a bad thing)

Don't know if you would want a back-up in the way of a few burgers in the oven / on the bbq. Just incase?

A kilo each for the adults plus half a kilo for each of the kids.......10kg to be on the safe side, you can never have too much pulled pork!

In allseriousness I would over egg it rather than under, pp is one of the greatest eats 2nd time around and sauced and frozen comes up good as new so I would def go OTT.

Of course it also depends what you are serving with it, it has always stunned me when grilling for a BBQ how insane I become. Should the lovely Mrs Tiny serve me a couple of Sausage tonight for my tea I will consider myself perhaps a sausage short, but not a burger, lamb cjhhop, a kebab, a couple of chicken thighs and a steak short of a plateful. But when thinking Q I seem to default to some wild species eating monster, so on second thoughts better safe than sorry go for 15kgs of pork!

Cheers
Tiny

So it's not just me Tiny.......thank the gods for that. I over-face all my guests but that way no-one goes home hungry and I get some righteous leftovers, after the doggies bags have been given out of course

I never have left over pulled pork unless I hide a bit for pulled pork nachos when everybody has gone home and everything is tidied and cleared away we sit down with a bowl of nachos.
I have some big friends with big appetites
Never any harm doing to much food.

Tiny wrote:Should the lovely Mrs Tiny serve me a couple of Sausage tonight for my tea I will consider myself perhaps a sausage short, but not a burger, lamb cjhhop, a kebab, a couple of chicken thighs and a steak short of a plateful. But when thinking Q I seem to default to some wild species eating monster, so on second thoughts better safe than sorry go for 15kgs of pork!

I was with some friends the other evening at a bbq and I was asked, "would you call this a braai; what is a braai?", I normally find it a little difficult to answer that question, but looking around the table, at the chops, chicken, sausage and the quantity thereof, it was clear, this was indeed a braai!

as always, thanks for all the advice gents, I'll cook a big one

I cooked for 12 the other weekend and did 2 x 2.5kg pork shoulders, 6 racks of ribs, bbq beans + slaw + wedges as sides and there was plenty for everyone and quite a bit left over that went into a very nice chilli but as the other chaps say.. you can never cook too much!