Archive for the ‘BBQ Tips and Tricks’ Category
Pop’s Que does well in Winter Haven, FL
Hi all,
Smoke on the Water at Winter Haven, FL, has come an
d gone. Police estimated the crowd at over 23,000 and hopefully a lot of money was raised for the Citrus Boy and Girls Clubs. In three weeks we do Ribs on the Ridge at Haines City, FL.
We had a young man working with us. Bryan is the same age as Daniel and about 2 inches taller!! His father calls him Bear. He had to stoop over to be able to stand in the trailer. We met him a couple of weeks ago at Dundee and we were mentoring him in BBQ. He did a nice job and will join us again in Haines City, then he is on his own!!
Oh yeah, you probably want to know the results. We missed by 0.18 points of capturing the Grand Championship in the Backyard Division and ended up with Reserve Grand. We won Chicken using grandson Daniel’s chicken rub and Chatham Artillery Special Sauce. We also won Brisket. Lots of leftover food for our Super Bowl party.
Bobie and Pop
New video added to BarbecueCoach.com
I just added a 3.5 hour video of Git-R-Smoked at a live contest in Dund
ee, FL. Lots of great info and techniques to learn from. Stump is cooking with Terry McKay this year and they will be a team to be reckoned with. Git-R-Smoked was the 2011 Florida BBQ Association Team of the Year and longtime BarbecueCoach.com member. This video is available to monthly members after 14 months.
No smoke from Traeger
Hi Bill I bought your book You mentioned you used a traeger pellet smoker back a few years ago with success I find the Traeger doesn’t produce enough smoke.
Do you find that a problem
Thanx & God Bless
Jim
More smoke flavor from pellet smoker
Bill,
I bought your BBQ book back in 2007. I have a Traeger Texas 075 and have used the Traeger pellets but I’m not enthused with the flavor I get vis a vis what I can get with my old Weber SMS. What brand pellets would you recommend? I like hickory , but also oak and maple as well.
Thanks
Ed
Secret BBQ competition Sauce
in you letter about the compitation chicken sauce from Larua .its talked about the three main ingredients what are the three in that sauce and then i can add the rest of spices.thanks for your time. richard
Easy BBQ Ribs
Hello:
Here’s how to make easy BBQ ribs with no foiling. They’ll come out tender, juicy, and with some of the tastiest bark ever! Also… videos of Dana Hillis’ delicious breakfast in Dundee FL, Stump talking about his new Stump Monster smoker, the Lakeland FL contest, and I found a good source for Berkshire Pork. All the details here…
http://www.bbqsuccess.com/easy-bbq-ribs/
Sincerely,
Bill Anderson
Pop Marshall takes grand in Dundee, FL backyard.
Bill,
It was nice to see you and the family at Dundee. Don’t know if you were there for the whole weekend. I was cooking Backyard and we were at the other end of the parking lot. It would have been nice if you were there for awards.
You’ve always said that one shouldn’t be afraid to try things. I used HomeBBQ.com rib rub for my ribs except that I mixed it with some smoked paprika to give it a bit of a smokier flavor. I also used your sauce with Better than Sex sauce. Uncle Kenny gave me a glaze to use on the ribs and they sure looked purty!!!
Don’t know what the scores were because Backyard was not an FBA sanctioned contest so we didn’t get our actual scores. But as you can see from the attached picture Pop’s Que did great — our first Grand Championship ever!!
Thanks BBQ Coach!!
Pop
Flat or point for brisket?
hello bill, bill , instead of turning in the flat on bbq brisket, what about turning in the point? for bbq compitition/it seems to me that the point taste better,if sliced right.any comments?
Two teams do well in Dundee, FL
A new member at BarbecueCoach.com, Getta Grip BBQ, and team Git-R-Smoked did well at the Southern Smokers BBQ in Dundee, FL. Getta Grip BBQ took 1st in chicken and ribs and 3rd overall and Git-R-Smoked took 1st in pork and 6th overall.
Git-R-Smoked does well in Lakeland, FL
Git-R-Smoked took 1st place in ribs and 4th overall at the Lakeland Pig Festival in Lakeland, FL. They had a nice 5th place walk in brisket too.
Note: After the BBQ Contest survey I did, I (Chatham Artillery BBQ) decided to try a new sauce in Lakeland which was not sweet at all. I bombed big time in chicken with a 59th place finish with scores ranging from 988 to 856. When I dunked my chicken, they turned out too saucy. I applied the sauce in the home test with a brush. If I had just finished in the top 20 in chicken, I would have been close to a top 10 overall. The other categories held their own with 17th in ribs, 18th in pork, and 33rd in brisket (first time I tried sauce on brisket).
Conclusion: I’ll go back to the sweet, tangy sauce with a little kick to it. Judges don’t seem to be ready for a sauce that is not sweet just yet.
