OT...Plugtown BBQ cookoff

badinfluence

if anyone is near eastern Iowa it is this Saturday! It's a hell of a good time. 16 teams going head to head. It can be found on Facebook if any of ya all are interested. And yes I will be competing in all 6 categories...chicken,ribs,brisket,pork,open, and surprise. If I do well I will let ya all know....if not...well then we won't talk about it...lol. Hope to see some people frome the forum. We will have our BadInfluence shirts on so you will know it's us.

Thatgrimguy

Sounds like fun. I'm doing a comp in a few weeks myself. I have 2 more scheduled between now and feb when my trailer smoker finally gets delivered. Then I'm going to be doing one a month.

Jstroke

Good luck we want to see plenty of pictures win, lose or draw.

badinfluence

@thatgrimguy it is a lot of fun as we don't take this to serious. It's like a giant pot luck with bragging rights...lol. Oh what kind of smoker did you order?

@jstroke I will try and get some pictures for sure. Hope with the grand champ trophy. Last year we placed 5th overall. So hoping not to go backwards.

theyolksonyou

Good luck, Larry. I'll sport my shirt from afar.  

RRP

Here you popped in yesterday and I missed it. I've been wondering how you were doing and even posted this thread today about you. Care to give the forum an update when you have some time? Here's the link:
http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1186747/food-truck-want-a-bees-just-an-observation#latest

pgprescott

Good luck tomorrow Larry. 

badinfluence

Thanks Pete. Already up cooking and preping. We will see how it goes...been messing with the recipes this year now if just the judges like what I did.

pgprescott

What are you doing for the open category?

badinfluence

Pete going to do either a bbq taco or baked beans. I'm leaning tward the beans bit the mrs. Wants to do the tacos. Either way we have everything with us.

badinfluence

Well...don't wanna talk about it....lol

DMW

badinfluence said:

Well...don't wanna talk about it....lol

It happens. Judges' palates are just fickle. 

badinfluence

@dmw naw it was not bad. Middle of the pac overall. Ribs dead last. That was 100% on me though. Time got away from me and I flat out overcooked them. And I mean to the point where when trying to cut them thy just fell apart. We did 4th in the open cat with out BBQtaco (wwhich you can get at badinfluence BBQ and grill food truck from 11-7 tuesday thru sat.) He he yeah I know cheap plug there.chiken was 6th brisket a dissapointing 10th.

badinfluence

Oh pork was 7th so it was not our best showing this weekend but could have been alot worse.

Not a excuse but when cleaning out the smoker before the comp. I slipped and fell in the crank handle and br used my ribs pretty good so in a bit of pain for the cook. Again that is not a excuse at all as we knew our food was not up to participate this weekend and we are owning up to it. 

Focker

Larry, nice to meet you and Mrs at Prescotts the other day.
Had something pop up, couldn't make it out to Goose Lake over the weekend.

Putting together a team (Good Vybz) 3 WSMs and kettle as of now, and will be bringing the camper out next year.  Pretty stoked to give another nonKCBS contest a run.  Thanks for letting me know about this cool event.

You could probably tell my hamster in the wheel was running ape$hit after you mentioned it.  

badinfluence

Brandon no problem. It was really nice meeting ya all as well. As you have seen already we did not do near as well as we would like. Oh well that is what next year is for.

Thatgrimguy

@badinfluence  Seems like you still had a pretty darn good showing in most categories. Just drug down by the ribs.

I ordered a Shirley Fabrications custom 30x60 with side cooker. I scaled it down from my original quote, the way I'm planning it now it will hold 15 restaurant pans total which is still overkill.