BBQlossal in Iowa

We will be there.

Barring rain, maybe Ill see you there Fred. The time Fri-Sat looks to be unsettled weather-wise.

Bob

Raining big right now. We will be in spot 363..be sure to come by.

I will be there on Saturday. Sure would like to hook up both of you.

Looks like most of tonite will be clear but it kicks in again tomorrow. Im hoping its done for Sat and I can ride the bike up. Hope to see you guys there too!

Bob

Did it not to long ago with Fast Eddy, it's a great event.

But the "Smokin Okies" will be in Wichita Kansas tomorrow for an event closer to home.

Best of luck!

This is where I got started BBQing. Used to go down for the hog shows and the World Pork Expo trade show starting in Springfield IL in '89, while I was on the MN pork board.

Started sampling all the BBQ and got interested. Bought my first Brinkmann offset in '94 after we saw one in Indianapolis [they used to move them around to other places besides DesMoines].

Bought my Kingfisher there from Coach's BBQ in '99.

We won the MN Best, a rotational trophy, the next year in Indianapolis.

I met a lot of great people there including Fred, Eddy, Smokin, Harley, Stoggie and others.

I regret to say we wont be down this year, we have a local event we will be cooking at.

I think the purses a quit large, compared to the entry fee. It is subsidized by the pork checkoff as a promotional event. It should continue, as the court battle to end the manditory checkoff on the grounds it is against freedom of speech by various livestock group seems to be holding up. We pay $.35/$100 on all hogs sold.

Have fun, and Fred, they aren't allowing beer on the grounds this year.

Roger

Roger,
Iwish they hadn't allowed beer, I would be feeling better this morning. Sorry you'all didn't make it down..

Any results Fred?

Daisy May's BBQ of New York City was the GC. Jumpin' Jim returned to competiton with a first in whole Hog , second in pork, third overall. we didn't fair too well. Forgot how Jim told us to cook extremely sweet when you get this far north. Great time though. The weather was good. Great compared to Witchita.

Hi Fred, It was nice to meet you down there. We ended up taking a 3rd in Ribs and 4th in Pork Loin, so we were pretty happy. You are right about the sweet, everything we turned in was sweet except for the loin which I use a Raspberry Chipolte sauce on. Hope to see you again down the road.

Ray
Bavarian Big Dog
Bavarian BBQ Boys

So Bavarian, congrats, those FE Class lessons paid off for everyone. Any other secrets, Raspberry Chipolte? hmm,

...now everyone will be saying, have you tried the BBDRC Sauce? So, what'd you use on your ribs...mayo?

No I didn't make to an FE Class yet, maybe in the future. Our Ribs were described by some as Candy coated, that's how sweet they were. We smoke them for 3 hours and then apply a mix of Brown Sugar/Butter and Apple juice glaze to them and wrap them in saran wrap and tin foil for an 1 hour. Then we finish them with a Sweet Hickory sauce for about 45 minutes unwrapped.
I am signed up for Great Bend with my Buddy Randy from Stone Blue Q and were wondering if you are going to make out there.

Later

Ray
Bavarian Big Dog

Maybe Randy is who I was thinking of, hey, I'm getting old and my brain is fried today.

We're doing mostly local contests this year, but Mrs. is wanting to do more next year and we have to get farther out there.

Thanks for the rib recipe. Lots of people have similar sweet recipes. Sweet definitely works. Probably shouldn't post the recipe, now everyone will have your ribs Not many people post winning recipes and 3rd at Iowa is a GREAT showing. I competed there with FE.

Congrats again,

Russ

I don't mind sharing information. As a wise man once said. "You still have to cook the meat to make it Great". I will send you an email with the recipe. Maybe you can give me some information about cooking at Great Bend.

Later

Ray

Yup, I'm the same way, that's why I run the forum for free and for fun, to share.

I'm going to use the recipe on the kids this weekend, they LOVE sweet ribs.

I'll email you and help any way I can, other teams have been helping me this year so I don't mind helping if I can.

Russ

Sorry I didnt get up there to visit Fred. I headed up that way Sat morning but got about 25 miles from you and had to turn back. Maybe next year!

Bob

It was great to meet Bob(hangingh) and Ray and the bavarian Boys. Wish we had had more time to talk.

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Originally posted by SmokinOkie:
[qb] Yup, I'm the same way, that's why I run the forum for free and for fun, to share.

I'm going to use the recipe on the kids this weekend, they LOVE sweet ribs.

I'll email you and help any way I can, other teams have been helping me this year so I don't mind helping if I can.

Russ [/qb]

Hey Smokinokie, Bavarian and I would like to propose a deal you can't refuse. How bout if you and the misses come our way and for a contest next year and in return we'll come and do the Ponca City contest next year? Maybe we could throw Stuart on one of our teams? He does make a darn nice turn in box.

Randy