We kicked off our year with smoke...BBQ smoke! We traveled across the border into California to attend the Wild West BBQ Showdown in WIldomar, CA. Now for any of you that know Timm, know that California is not his favorite place by any means. It was a back to back contest...the last one of 2010, and the first one of 2011. Most teams competed in both events, a handful...like us, competed in just one. Teams came from as far as Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois to compete. Many big name teams were there including the Godfather of BBQ, Johnny Triggs (He's such a neat guy), All Sauced Up, Rhythm & Que, and Slap Yo' Daddy.
We drove down and set up on Friday for the first event of 2011. It was a much easier drive than expected...but we did re-route our trip and stay off of I-15 for the holiday weekend. It was our first competition by ourselves, our boys nor my parents were there to help and give moral support. We were on our own. I have to admit its easier with a 3rd person. We enjoyed pleasant days but oh so chilly night temperatures, 26 was the low temp I believe.
Timm did an excellent job with our new pit, and many folks stop to look at and talk to Timm about the axe handles, etc. It was a busy place both days. We were placed next to Pork U from St. Goerge and it was nice to get to know them better. The folks from Rib Ticklers had the place to be to party. They had laser lights, music, dancing and more. We tried to sleep a bit New Year's Eve but there really wasn't much of that happening. The seats of the truck are not nearly as comfortable to sleep in as they are to sit in.
We encountered a few difficulties. Our cook schedule was off by 1/2 hour. We started our cook a 1/2 hour early due to cold weather. Meats cooked faster than expected so they were done quicker. All of these things made for our stuff being done way ahead of time. The turn-in in boxes were larger than normal and I think we cut our brisket just a bit to narrow.
We want to thanks the guys from R&R BBQ, Roger ended up visiting the event so we got to see him Friday before we began our cook. Rod gave us lots of input and advice via cellphone. They have been really good to us and we bought out new pit from Rod.
Here is Timm and the guys from Pork U...representing IMBBQA. We ended up finishing 36th overall with our best showing in pork of 27th. Not bad for our 2nd KCBS contest.
10 comments:
I’m just grateful for your help and in addition have high hopes you are aware of a great job you’re undertaking training some other people using a blog.
Tom's farms is an early day Knott's, with activities for the entire family, pony rides, train rides and other rides and activities for the little ones.
I am so happy to read on your post, Your idea is more useful for me. Thanks for sharing! wisdom teeth extraction
This is very interesting. A lot of thoughts to be learned from this site. Thanks for posting this nice blog.
national collection agency
This is very interesting, You’re a very skilled blogger. I have joined your feed and look forward to more of your wonderful post. Also, I have shared your web site in my social networks! Daily Deals
Hello! I just would like to give a huge thumbs up for the great info you have here on this post. I will be coming back to your blog for more soon….
Does anybody in the Inverness area repair real flame gas heaters? central heating repairs melbourne
I read over your blog and figured you and your readers might be interested in reading over a blog I wrote, based on your blogging style. It's covering a different topic than your blog, but you might like it anyways:
Thanks a lot for sharing on insightful knowledge about this fields, I truly appreciate it!
what is a loan modification california
This is a great blog. thanks for providing this info. You have so much knowledge about this. thanks for sharing....
producer chris young
Post a Comment