I need a little planing help

[Patrick_CT]

I will be having 40 or so people come over for my sons b-day party and was planning on doing brisket and pulled pork. If I want to plan on them taking roughly the same time then should I look for 7lbs size of each or get bigger pork and smaller brisket?

I plan to have people eat around 4:30, so I could start them the night before and pull them early to allow for FTC for a couple hours.

I need to go shopping this afternoon for the meat so I was hoping to get 7 lbs butts and 2 briskets.

Any insights are welcome!

 

[FLBentRider]

I've never timed them together like that, but I would start them both the night before and use FTC to stage them.

How much pork butt are you going to get?

 

[Patrick_CT]

I am thinking 2 x 7lb bone in... depending on what is available at Costco/BJ's later.

 

[FLBentRider]

That's going to give you roughly 7lbs of pulled pork, about 28 servings.

Briskets I've never served to a crowd, my go-to is pork butt. I would assume the same 50% loss and 1/4lb serving size.

so 2 8lb briskets will serve 32. - that doesn't sound right to me, but like I said, I've never fed brisket to a crowd or measured the cooking losses.