Competition BBQ Secrets

Archive for January 25th, 2008

Hi:
I noticed in reading your ?Competitive Secrets? book that you are now cooking on a Lil Texas from Traeger. Do you enjoy the Traeger when you replaced your Lang smoker? Do you know of any drawbacks? Most of my cooking is family and I was considering the Lil Texas, but do you use it in competition. Is the Lil Texas able to perform what you need it for in competition (ribs, brisket and pulled pork)? How is the size (I?m trying to decide if the Texas would be better than the Lil Texas)? Thanks for any help you may give me.
Happy Smoking!!
Your Savannah friend in NJ —— Dave

I love your book that is where I got the idea to get the Lang.  I love the size just not having to “feed the beast” all the time.  Also on my first time at a competition it was like some meat cooked better than others, the pork never got to the right temp to pull.  Does the amount of meat on the cooker have a major impact on the cooking times?  We have only been to one competition with the Lang last year.  We had 2 pork butts (from Sam’s Club where 2 are in a package) 5 briskets and the chicken thighs.  There was plenty of room but just did not seem to cook everything to the temps I wanted.  We put the butts and brisket on at about 9:00 on Friday night but the pork butts never got to the temp I needed and 2 of the briskets were good and the other 3 were not.
Thanks for your help
Tony

We are having a superbowl party Feb 3rd  we are having 35 guests and are making BBQ. HELP can I get your book quickly……….

Thank you
Donna E