Thanks all. yes, it was a great time and a stupid amount of work. I decided to try out some of the Stubbs that I just bought. Dumped a full chimney on each side of the RK pretty much corresponding to the flip up grates. Bone in chx went on skin down first for some direct cook action covering both sides of the grill. Flipped them all for some direct cooking on the bone side as well, then moved to indirect down the center of the Rk. As the bone in chx started to be moved to the center, boneless breasts went down on the right hand side. I saw that the coals were dying down at this point so I fired up another chimney. While it was ashing over, the chops went down on the left. Boneless chx got moved to the center also, grate got flipped up, chimney got dumped, then the NY Strips and the 5 burgers went on the right hand side for some direct action as well.
I should point out that this all didn't go like clockwork, or "all this, then all that". It was more fluid. I started the bone in on the right hand side and after it filled up, then I went to the left. Add in that the heat on either side wasn't exactly uniform, as it never is. So, some of the chix on the right were the first to be flipped, then some on the left, then back to the stuff on the cooler part of the right, etc, etc, etc. Rinse and repeat for everything that went on after that. Man, stuff was flying everywhere. "It's done, move it to indirect", "oh, wait, maybe it needs a bit more time, move it back". "It's hotter there, so swap those two around", "Well hell, you only have 2 chops left, squeeze them in there"...
Basically, same kind of stuff you would run into during a cook on a normal kettle, times twenty bazillion it seems because there's sooooo damned much on there. I was absolutely spent after bringing everything off the grill and sending it to the table.
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