So how has your cooking caused issues? My latest in the post

My wife has been sick, so she forgot to tell me that I was bringing a main course for 20+ people to one of my son's groups at his HS. I found out 15 minutes before I left on a day long trip. The first tasty thing I thought of that would be for some pulled pork. On my way back home I picked up three *cheap* pork roasts. Two were cut up and vacuum tumbled for 15 minutes with garlic water, lots of black pepper, vinegar and some liquid smoke for 15 minutes before being put into the pressure smoker for 99 minutes. A third roast was done in the same tumbler, then out into a tabletop convection/halogen oven for an hour. The roast came out first, I put it through a meat slicer for thin cuts. When the pressure cooker was done, I broke it up and (gag) mixed it with a large bottle of Kraft BBQ sauce and ran everything to the school. Under two hours, minimal effort.
Here is the sad thing - a few of the teachers came in to mooch food and started telling my kid's coach that it was the best pulled pork he had ever done. He tracked me down, and a local owner of a BBQ place did the same to find out how I did it. Apparently the coach had been charging the teacher's picnic quite a bit of cash and taking time off from the school to do everything (long, low smoke). He was furious to hear that I spent two hours and got better reviews. The BBQ place owner did ask me to bring in some so his customers could compare because he liked mine better.
I do not understand this - for gosh sake, it was Kraft BBQ sauce that I used because I was short on time! In any case, my kid was approached today to cater the next picnic.

The last time something like this happened I was doing an after game thing for my kid's t-ball team.
I marinated several *cheap* cuts of beef for "make your own" tacos for the kids in a vacuum tumbler before grilling them and I found out that four parent's on the team either owned places of were head chef's in them. I got a "thank you" from a local sales guy for selling six vacuum tumblers in the time where he usually sold one.

Hi,

Tell me more about this vaccuum tumbler? I never heard of this device.

You did a fine job improvising.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:Tell me more about this vaccuum tumbler? I never heard of this device.

I hadn't either, so I hit Google and found a pretty good explanation on this site:

http://www.waltonsinc.com/c-240-vacuum-tumblers.aspx

There's a home version here.