The conventional wisdom on getting ready for a competition includes practice cooks. For new teams, this also usually includes advice on setting up at home to do a cook, but acting as though you’re off site. This helps a team figure out if they have the right equipment or not.
I’ve been thinking about this lately, and while that works, it leads to a different problem then not having what’s needed…
Problem #2: Having too much stuff!!!
While this may not sound like a problem, try prepping and cooking 60 pounds or so of meat under a canopy with nothing but coolers and bins of supplies. When you have too much, you just have to wade through all the extra stuff to get to what you need! Continue reading
