Announcement -- Competing in OU vs TX BBQ Battle in Dallas

And you thought your were done with competitions. HA! Good Luck!

Guess no one is in Dallas?

Just saw this. I won't be there physically, but I'll be pulling for you all the way. Best of luck and skill.

Will be heading to Dallas Friday AM...

Good luck, with a name like Smokin Okie how can you not win?

Nordy

Yeah, Smokin Okie in TEXAS...

Lucky it's blind tasting so they're not biased

GOOD LUCK, hope the days off from comps haven't made you rusty...LOL! Guess it should just about make it fair.

Hey, it's Restaurant Competition not that KCBS Cut Throat Stuff.

So I guess cooking ribs doesn't count...

Guess we'll see this weekend if I'm rusty

We're having the IBCA invitational this weekend in Grand Prairie. 17k+ paying 15 places. Best of Luck to ya Russ............ where is your contest? Fair Park?

Russ, how did it finish up in the final round. I saw your team made the finals in this Dallas news clip. Congrats.

Thanks for the link (those are my ribs at the 1:30 point on the cutting board), that was the Saturday morning promo shoot that I got up at 5:00 am to cook ribs after going to sleep at 1:30 am...

We won the Oklahoma Division in the blind judging Thursday. We have a victory there also as we were the highest overall scoring team (all 8 teams, including TX) by more than almost 20 points.

The TX team won the overall, but only by 11 votes. Hard to beat a local team in their backyard as the voting was open to the public.

Fun time, lot of work, I'll get some photos uploaded later this week.

Was the judging blind?

Thursday was truly blind judging, we had 15 min turnin windows and were judged by some pros (Chefs, Food Critics/Writers).

Friday was "blind" judging as the public only had to choose from A or B... but it seemed to be the worst kept secret in town, people came up and told us which one was ours and which was theirs. It's only the 2nd year for the event. We'll be invited back next year as the Defending Oklahoma Champs, guess I'll need to set up free food to get the forum guys to come along

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Originally posted by SmokinOkie:

Friday was "blind" judging as the public only had to choose from A or B... but it seemed to be the worst kept secret in town, people came up and told us which one was ours and which was theirs. It's only the 2nd year for the event. We'll be invited back next year as the Defending Oklahoma Champs, guess I'll need to set up free food to get the forum guys to come along

I figured you might have had the odds stacked against you to some degree. Any local that saw that news clip would be able to easily identify the TX ribs after hearing the reporter state that they were "Smokier". Then, word spreads.

Anyway, you had a good run, and you return next year. Plus, OU won their part of the rivalry. Heck, having a couple decent sized wagers on OU, I even won. With a line favoring OU by 3 and an O/U of 61, it was too good to pass up.

Congrats again.

A FEC 500 is not really a good Rib cooker if you're going after texas in the Smoke category I wouldn't think. Especially with 5 hours to cook in. Just my opinion.

Who were the other Oklahoma teams? The guy said they were using non chain restaurants.

I know I was up against the Texas Smoke Eaters (those people in TX like oversmoked) but that wasn't why we lost. Plenty of people came out and said they didn't like the oversmoked stuff in the other entry because they couldn't taste any of the meat, just smoke. In the end we lost because we didn't get enough votes

but the judges liked us a lot, beat the winner team by almost 20 points in blind judging, so that tells me something.

But a GREAT time.

Teams:

OKLAHOMA PITMASTERS
Robby Corcoran Burn Co. BBQ – Tulsa
Russ Garrett Coach’s – Oklahoma City
Terel McNac Steve’s Ribs – Edmond
Ritter Mud Creek BBQ – Ringling

TEXAS PITMASTERS
Cliff Payne (2011 Event Champion) Cousin’s – Fort Worth
Kelly Duncan Big Daddy’s – Lavon
Lance Kirkpatrick Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew – Austin
Rev. Jeremiah McKenzie Baby J’s BBQ & Fish – Palestine Bill

Some Google results (includes some videos from local news):
Google for "Red River BBQ Shootout"

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Originally posted by SmokinOkie:
(those people in TX like oversmoked)

And, what I've witnessed cooking a few IBCA comps with Coach...VERY sweet and over cooked. Judges are required to use plastic cutlery to eat ribs.

McRibs pattys anyone?