The spring fair at my daughter's elementary school is Friday. This is the big gig. We did our first one in 2018 and did it again in 2019 and obviously the fair was cancelled the past two years so we're back baby! I have two more years of this and then it might be time to bequeath the trailer to someone else.
I spent this weekend prepping. I had to clean the pit out. From a few years of experience my best method for cleaning is a grease fire. I drained as much grease as I could out using the ball valve and yeah that's gross and there are for sure a few stains on the driveway. Then I burned it out on Friday with the help of some charcoal in the belly of the barrel and some lighter fluid. It was pretty successful. Nice big, long burning fire. Then the next day I knocked all of the ash and dust off and used the ball valve tube and a bucket underneath to clear as much ash as I could. Then the coin op power wash - pulled everything out and hit them with the high psi spray and knocked all of the crap off that I could. Finally, I bought 6 cans of PAM and sprayed the entire thing down inside and out and burned it out really good last night with some lump in the firebox. Still could use some TLC but looking pretty good and we're ready for Thursday/Friday. I think we are going with 6 briskets, 4 butts, 4 racks of spares and 220 hot dogs.