Affiliate links may appear below. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Before You Buy Hey Reader For a lot of folks, July 3 is when July 4 plans start to become real. You have a rough head count, you know whether ribs or wings are on the menu, and now you need to decide how much to buy. Cooking beef or pork ribs? The Rib Calculator helps you turn your guest count, rib type, and meal style into a realistic number of racks to buy.Buying ribs for a crowd helps you convert...

Affiliate links may appear below. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Start With When You Want to Eat Hey Reader If you’re cooking for a crowd on Saturday, your question may be less “What should I cook?” and more “When on earth do I need to start?” Pork butt (or shoulder) is one of the more forgiving meats to cook, but it still helps to work backward from the time you want to eat. The Pulled Pork Calculator can help you figure out how much pork to buy and when to get...

Affiliate links may appear below. As an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Hey Reader It's been a long while since I've taken a moment to write. Apologies... Sure, if you're new to the list (or even if you've been around a while), you might not fully realize it, but the emails you get each Wednesday — which others of you have probably cycled out of by now — belong to a prewritten "Welcome Series" that runs for a full year. I wrote that on and off between 2017 and 2024, I...