Grand Champion with my FEC 500

Congratulations, Mike!!! You will never forget your first!

Congrats Mike! That is awesome!

Great job and I know you had great cooks up there.

Very impressive Mike. Congrats.

Outstanding job! Best of luck at The Royal...hope you draw an invite to The Jack.

Anything different this time that got you the GC?

Max Q.
I am getting to know the FEC 500 because I cook on it every week. I also have a vending and catering business so that helps me get to know the smoker alot better. That old addage Practice,Practice,Practice is true. This award has really helped the business incidently. The thing that is nice is having the room in the 500 where we can position meats where they don't interfere with each other. I also noticed the cook this time went real smooth with no real hangups. Our food we turned in all tasted pretty good. We try to tweek flavors mostly. We tweeked a few things but didn't really veer off our original game plan. Having the trailer and being inside keeps us focused and people from stopping by and peeking over our shoulders.
We do document every move during a competition on a time line on the computer so we can duplicate it when we have success and that has helped. Our biggest tweek is we changed our pork sauce and got the highest ranking so far.
So I guess it is a culmination of everything that has gradually got us to this point. We just have been trying to simplify and improve our process and our food.

Mike Lewis
Stoke & Smoke BBQ

Remember,if you going to the Royal,go ahead and start making plans.
You don't wan't to wind up on the "dark side".

You should go ahead and talk to Fast Eddy, since he pulls a 500 to contests and will have an interest in that you do well.