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Basic Event Information

• Name: "Geek Eats: Pig Roast"
• Organizer\POC: Omegix 11:03, 8 December 2009 (CST)
• Date: 11/20
• Time: TBD
• Location: Make Shop
• Cost to Attend: $10 / person, or $15 for two people.

Calendar

• February 20 2010, 6:00pm - 9:00pm: Geek Eats Pig Roast

Description

We gunna roast a pig. Mardis Gras Theme.

Planned Food

• Roasted Pig
• Jambalaya
• Kool-Aid

Pot Luck Noms

• Beans (Spacefelix can get some)
• Potato Salad (Spacefelix can get some)
• Jambalaya (Preaux can get access to propane burner and pot)
• Alii will make bananas foster on site.
• MrWorld will bring sweet potatoes

Prep Work

• Gotta setup rotisserie
  • Building Pit on Saturday Jan 30th
    • Pit has to be covered by a metal grate in order to abide by city laws
  • Testing rotisserie at Chicken Roast
• Hook up motor to automate rotisserie
  • Preaux welded together the first half of the Rotisserie on 1/21/09
  • First rotisserie meetup is for 1/23/2010
• Need to build pit (Preaux recommends having this built two weeks before event: 2/7/09)
• Need to purchase charcoal
• Need to check with the Health Department about serving food (Alii will look into this)

Volunteers

• Omegix
• Preauxphoto
• Spacefelix
• Alii
• User:MrWorld
• Your name here!

Progress

• Preauxphoto and Ratmandu have built the spit for the pig, as well as the A-frames to rest it on ~Jan 22, Jan 23
• Omegix, MrWorld, Brimstone, and Ratmandu have obtained bricks for the pit ~Jan 23

Materials

• Pig (Preaux can get a 40-50lb pig for about $150. Needs the money by the day-before, so probably going to get him cash by Feb 13th.)
  • We can recoop the cost of the pig by charging about $7 a head for the event.
  • Jeff can cover $50 up front costs for the pig. Need to cover an additional $50
  • Brian can cover $50 up front costs for the pig.
  • Opticron can cover $50 up front costs for the pig.
  • Preaux is arranging pickup and transport of pig to the event.
• Preaux has access to a rotisserie
• Charcoal $50
  • Charcoal needs a financial sponsor

Needs

• if you can supply any of these items please do so
  • Meat Thermometer to ensure 170º Internal Temperature
  • " Burn Barrel" container to start coals in AKA. metal 5gal bucket
  • Chicken wire for tying pig to rotisserie spit.
  • Cinder blocks (may be able to get bricks from next door to the shop)
  • Charcoal (10lbs of charcoal per hour of cooking. 1 hour of cooking per 10lbs of pig. So 50lb pig will require 50lb of charcoal. Assuming $70 in charcoal, need to get actual price from wal-mart)

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Completed

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To-Do

(Anything in here needs a volunteer associated, or we can assume it won't be done)

• Announce List - jeff
• Web Page - jeff (at least one week before on Feb 13th?)
• NPR - Korc may have a contact at NPR. Jeff has dropped Korc an email Omegix 14:01, 26 January 2010 (CST)
• News Paper
• Fliers - brian is working on a flier
  • UAH
  • Monkey
  • Bandito