One of the toughest parts of competition cooking is when your much loved, crowd pleasing, legendary recipes fall flat in the judging tent. For those following our comp reports, you would know our pork has been falling in that category. This Carolina style pulled pork gets accolades from all that taste it but has failed […]
Beginners Guide
Chilli Powder vs. Chilli Powder
Like so many others, when I started out in BBQ, I spent my time scanning US BBQ sites for recipes I thought I could accomplish. I still clearly remember the first night I cooked ribs. I’d followed the recipe to the letter, my timing was pretty fair and they certainly looked the goods. The family […]
Why we love the Smokey Mountain
Whenever we go to comps, people always ask why we use the particular smokers that we do. As all of us love our BBQ and are family men, many of the features that we desired in our competition cookers are the same as what we need for home use. For this reason, we choose to use Weber Smokey Mountains […]
What do you mean BBQ?
If you’re a child of the 1960s 70s or 80s, you probably grew up watching your father or mother proudly cooking on a home made barbecue. A steel plate wedged between a series of bricks and Besser blocks was all that was needed, along with a fire of nuclear proportions, so hot that the hairs […]