BBQ Pitmasters Episode 1

Loved the show, gotta say that group was pretty dysfunctional though! Lotta smack talk, and it looks like a lot more to come.

I got all beamie when she said she NEEDS that Egg for chicken and beef.

There are quite a number of egg teams around the contry, one of the best is Jus fer fun, Poppasam & Ms. Diane, se the prayer concerns for her below.

Am I missing something, the only reason for the muffin pan would be for the compatition?

I tried - I really did but it was on past my bedtime :ermm:

Fell asleep in my recliner about the time the young cocky dude from Texas showed up. :blink:

Next time I'll skip the half bottle of wine with dinner

Nice Spanish wine

2006 Crianza - Marques de la Concordia Rioja

 
What station/chanel was it on, maybe I can catch a rerun.

GG

For the prize money in Mesquite you would have been surprised at the teams there. I bet half came from 10 hours or more. I know there were guys there from Ohio, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, and well beyond.

I like this show that it gives more insight to comp BBQ to those who don't really know a lot about it. This weekend in Tempe there are three guys competing for Team of the Year who have been to Arizona, North Carolina, Florida and back to Arizona all in a little over a month because cause the race is so tight. They are traveling thousands of miles for this.

Paul is a restaurant cook. Not sure his place on the series vs another contestant. But the whole chickens. Butt Rub does whole chickens and wins a lot. But I am sure his box looks nicer than Pauls.

Well the guy with the lighter fluid is Myron Mixon of "Jack's Old South" who is from Georgia and has won many comps, including mulitples at Memphis in May.
Earlier this year he did the BBQ class at the Mothership as part of the "Big Green Egg Academy".
While I would never use lighter fluid or talk about how stupid my cohorts are, he does deserve alot of respect.
The thing I am taking away from the show most of all, is his time/temp methodology for butts and brisket. I'm sure he cooked to temp like one should, but he went hot/fast rather than lo/slow...and he won Grand Champion. I understand he got into that a little during the BGE class as well. I have done one butt that way after hearing the rumor out of the class and could not tell a difference. It may very well become the norm for how I do larger cuts of meat for BBQ.

Every competition I have been in the competitors were more like Tuffy and less like Myron and Johnny. Smack talk is one thing, but Myron was pure arrogant..

For the record: Myron isn't even listed on the KCBS site in any category for that competition. He competed in two competitions that week-end with the same name. That is against the KCBS rules..

I absolutely LOVED the show. Especially after experiencing the American Royal competition this year. Tuffy Stone was cooking right across from the Dizzy Pig camp, Johnny Trigg was there too. I had recorded it so I even watched it again this morning when I was working out. The only thing I didn't like was that they focused only on a few of the teams. "Smoking Goatheads" which is "Lovehandles" (Mike Love's) team was never shown once and they took 1st in chicken, and it was their very 1st competition. That's pretty impressive when you're competing against the top 47 teams in the country.
I'm looking forward to the next episode...can't wait!!

I think that would be fun to get an RV and go to the competitions. I've been to a few and they are really fun to go to....as a spectator. I would NEVER ever want to compete. Being a helper would be fun, but that's as far as I would go. It's unbelievable how much work and money goes into one of those competitions.

Oh brother.....sorry....46. You don't miss anything
Mr. Perfect!!! :laugh: :P

Come on Anne even you have to admit he was no where near a top team..

Whole chickens and they were burnt. He let his fire go out. He threw his ribs into the box and they looked burnt. I noticed they didn't show his pork or brisket entries.

He's supposedly a top chef and he has zero presentation skills..

A top competition team he is not..

grumpy gus....

Okay, I'll be the lone dissenter. I didn't fall asleep, but wish I had. Didn't seem to be any different from any of the other comp shows broadcast in the past. I didn't really pay much attention to the build up for the show, but had the impression it was going to be something new and different. It wasn't. Mixon is in all of them and he's arrogant in all of them (this show, even worse than usual). And then there was the bleeping.

And the kid who fell asleep? The name of the show implies, no SAYS, that these people are pitMASTERS. Apparently not. Wonder if he got a "Certificate of Participation". :blink:

I gather that this same collection of folks will be on all the episodes? Too bad. I found myself not caring who won. And wondering why they didn't even film all those who DID. I was hoping that Mixon wouldn't win for a change. At least he had to forfeit.

Oh and I saw a post somewhere, written by a guy who said he was there, saying that the egg really was blown over by the 50-60 MPH wind. That it was not staged for TV. True or false, I don't know.

There. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

It was okay. If I was Myron's Dad, I'd wash his mouth out with soap.

For anyone thinking about competing, I have done it with two larges and one small. The smack talk really only happens with the teams you know. Everyone else is very nice to each other, especially the teams you are meeting for the first time.

You would think the guy that just threw his chicken in the box would have done a little research on what the judges are looking for...I think he was probably told to wing it for the first one and see how it goes....good for tv.