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Revision as of 15:21, 18 February 2010

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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: 1PM
  • Location: Make Shop
  • Cost to Attend: $10 / person, or $15 for two people.
  • Silent Auction
  • Flier for Pig Roast: File:Pigroast.pdf

Calendar

  • February 20 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm: Geek Eats Pig Roast

If we get rained out on the 20th, plan is to do Pig Roast the following Saturday on Feb 27th

Description

We gunna roast a pig! Mardis Gras Theme. Alii is organizing a silent auction for the event!


Planned Food

  • Roasted Pig
  • Jambalaya
  • Sweet and Unsweet Tea ~ Alii will brew Sweet and Unsweet tea the day of the event.
    • Ice
    • Ice Chest (jeff will bring)
    • coolers with spickets (brian will bring)

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
  • Ratmandu will bring horse pop

Prep Work

  • Gotta setup rotisserie
    • Pit is now assembled at the make shop.
      • 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 (Done we are good to go. 1/28/09 -Alii)

Volunteers

Silent Auction Donations

Alii is organizing a Silent Auction fundraiser

  • Jayne Hat -Alii's friend Laurie
  • Something knitted by Alii, suggestions welcome.
  • Items off of salvage, refurbs, repairs, scrap parts, etc.
  • Your donation here

Open House Activities

  • MrWorld is engraving and screen printing
  • Crashcart says the photobooth is working and available
  • Gregabyte can show off the cooler/drink dispenser rig
  • Your name / project / demo / talk here!

Pig Preparers: Feb 19th, 7PM

Pig Preparers: Feb 20th, 6AM

(please note the time, that's six in the morning)

Hope is that we can get everything set up the night before, and the morning is just throw a match on the charcoal and put on some pig.

Progress

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.)
    • Preaux got the meats contact to Omegix (Rocket City Meats). Omegix has reserved a 50lb frozen pig for $150 (After tax). Preaux to pick up on the 17th. They need to be called the morning of to setup a pickup time before 4:30pm
    • Jeff has covered $50 up front costs for the pig. Need to cover an additional $50
    • Brian has covered $50 up front costs for the pig.
    • Opticron has covered $50 up front costs for the pig.
    • Preaux has is arranging transport of pig to the event.
  • Preaux has built a rotisserie
  • Charcoal $35 (The cheap stuff from Publix is $7 / 10lb bag)
    • gregabyte will bring 20lbs of charcoal
    • need sponsor for remaing 30lbs - Spacefelix will buy from Home Depot with lighter fluid
    • Hickory - BrokenTrace will bring some hickory logs. If all else fails, get hickory charcoal from Publix.

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. (we have this at 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. $35 of charcoal from publix will do the trick)

Completed

To-Do

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


  • Fliers - MrWorld has created flier. Now to hangs them up.
    • UAH
    • Monkey - brian to hang
    • Olde Towne - Alii to hang
    • Kenny Mangos - benelene to hang
    • Atlanta Bread
    • Panera Break - Alii to hang