Grill Master University Interviews Top Competition Barbecue Teams at Memphis in May

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. We spoke with some of the attendees of this competition to see what they had to say about barbecue. “We just get together and have a good time!”–not to mention grilling and making delicious barbecue for everyone to eat. Barbecue crosses all races, all religions and socioeconomic backgrounds. It’s just a time where everybody can get together and have fun and celebrate good food and good fellowship.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. We spoke with some of the attendees of this competition to see what they had to say about barbecue. “We just get together and have a good time!”–not to mention grilling and making delicious barbecue for everyone to eat. Barbecue crosses all races, all religions and socioeconomic backgrounds. It’s just a time where everybody can get together and have fun and celebrate good food and good fellowship.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. For this segment, we took some time to chat with Anthony Di Bernardoof Swig and Swine from Charleston, South Carolina.Swig and Swine has four locations across the Low country. Anthony may have been born in Mantua, New Jersey, but he has a passion for Southern barbecue. He started out cooking as a banquet cook at age 14, and he was a cook for the US Navy on the USS Batfish submarine. The Navy brought Anthony to the Low country, and he never looked back. He has 25 years’ experience in the culinary scene, and he continues to perfect his barbecue game year after year. Anthony loves cooking everything from prime beef brisket to homemade sausage, slow-cooked ribs, and whole hog barbecue.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In this interview, we sit down with the team at Mac’s Smoke Shop: Kevin Kuruc and Jeff Delmastro. In 2017, Mac’s took second place in Whole Hog at the 40th Memphis in May International Festival World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. In previous years, they have won first place for sauce, as well as 5th and 8th place for whole hog. They also compete in other competitions and have been the Grand Champion and Reserve Champion in competitions like the All American BBQ Festival When Pigs Fly, The Beer Bourbon &BBQ Festival, North Carolina’s Grill’n&Chill’n BBQ Cook-Off, and more. They are well-known for their whole hog barbecue, but they also compete (and have placed or won) in categories like pork ribs, chicken, whole shoulder, pork butt, and beef brisket.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Next up in our interview series is the Red Hot Smokers. We spoke with Tommy Langdon of Arlington, Tennessee, first. He started cooking with the Red Hot Smokers in 2006. He has many fond memories of the trips the team has taken together. Competing in the competitive barbecue circuit is a great honor, and it’s even better when you place in a BBQ competition like Memphis in May, one of the biggest competitions for barbecue in the world. Because he loves smoking and grilling, getting to compete is a fun thing to do, and it makes the barbecue taste better when you put your love and passion into it, too.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In this interview, we sit down with the team at Mac’s Smoke Shop: Kevin Kuruc and Jeff Delmastro. In 2017, Mac’s took second place in Whole Hog at the 40th Memphis in May International Festival World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. In previous years, they have won first place for sauce, as well as 5th and 8th place for whole hog. They also compete in other competitions and have been the Grand Champion and Reserve Champion in competitions like the All American BBQ Festival When Pigs Fly, The Beer Bourbon &BBQ Festival, North Carolina’s Grill’n&Chill’n BBQ Cook-Off, and more. They are well-known for their whole hog barbecue, but they also compete (and have placed or won) in categories like pork ribs, chicken, whole shoulder, pork butt, and beef brisket.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Next up, we sat down and chatted with Stephen Perrin of Rusty’s Smoke BBQ in Blue Mountain Village in Ontario, Canada. Stephen was originally classically trained for fine dining, but he fell in love with barbecue and is well-known as a Canadian barbecue pit master. Stephen is part of The Substance Food Group, a collaboration of three men who have worked together for more than 20 years and today own four restaurants, including Terra, Restaurant Sarpa, Rusty’s at Blue, and andFrancobollo. Stephen is a world champion in the North American competitive BBQ circuit. He has won first place in international competitions like Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitation Barbecue. He has also won at Memphis in May World Championship and he participates in local competitions like the Fatboys Canadian Capital Classic BBQ Competition in Ottawa, Canada.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In the next interview in our series, we took the time to sit down with Ben Corden of Memphis Sparks. If you want to learn to smoke, Ben’s advice is to go for it. It really doesn’t matter what gear you have – you may have a hand-me-down smoker or a regular, inexpensive kettle grill. You can buy the cheapest smoker on the market, and it doesn’t matter. It’s all fine, because the quality of the food is what is really important in great barbecue.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Next up, we sat down to chat with Pedro Gonzales of the Memphis Latin Porkers. Pedro is from Venezuela, and he’s the head cook for the Memphis Latin Porkers team. They’re currently the only Latin team that competes in Memphis in May. They started competing in 2016, and this team of Latinos is proud to represent their Central and South American origins. Their goal is to provide an opportunity for the Latino community in Memphis to become more integrated, bringing their traditions and integrating them with Memphis cultures.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Next up, we took some time to chat with Kyle Storms from Nashville, Tennessee. Kyle talks about his love for barbecue. The best part about it is that BBQ is that it’s an experiment that you get to eat. Along the way, you make friends with other BBQ enthusiasts, sharing new recipes and trying out new things. Every time you make a new BBQ recipe or try out a new grilling technique, you get to eat the results of your experiment!

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In our next segment, we took some time to interview Dylan Lipe of Grilla Grills and Blackwood BBQ. Dylan is the owner of several restaurants in Chicago, Illinois, as well as a food truck in Denver, Colorado. Throughout his career, he’s been featured in many Chef magazines and has earned many awards, including KCBS and MBN competitions. He’s always been inspired by the way that food can create personal connections between people who started out as complete strangers. He’s traveled all over the world, developing and refining his cooking techniques. He has a true passion for the pit and all things barbecue, and it really shines through in his food. The thing he loves most about BBQ in general is the familial atmosphere. Everyone gathers around the pit and the fire, coming together to enjoy a meal together. It’s a very old school cooking method – an early man thing – but somehow it’s still so relevant today despite all our advanced technology.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. As we sat down with Chris Sussman from Louisville, Kentucky (otherwise known as the BBQ Buddha), we were reminded of something he always says: Grill by feel. Sussman’s whole philosophy is about learning how to cook, grill, or smoke in any environment. Once you really zone in and get into making great BBQ, you’ll be able to know when your food is finished just by sight and touch; no timers or thermometers necessary. Forget about the constraints of timers and temperatures and learn to trust yourself. Make food from scratch – without recipes even – by balancing your five taste sensations: look, touch, smell, feel, and (most importantly) taste your food to know when it’s finished cooking and ready to eat.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In this interview, we take the time to sit down with Linda and Brad Orrison of The Shed Barbecue and Blues Joint in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The Shed is a true family affair. It was started by a brother-sister team, and the entire family works in the business. The music is run by one of the brothers, Brett, and even G-Maw and Daddy O are part of the team, manning the beer bar and making competition-worthy BBQ sauces.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. As we sat down with Wayne Lichliter from AdRibbers, he reminded us that he’s actually a doctor (for those who care, he adds). The Adribbers philosophy has been the same for over 30 years, and it’s all about making great food and having fun. They smoke the best ribs, pork shoulder, and other types of meats, but they also love making smoked cheeses. In addition to cooking, you’ll find them drinking their fill (their words, not ours) and having a ton of fun while doing it. Because that’s what barbecue is all about, even competition BBQ. When you’re at Memphis in May, you may as well take the time to party a little bit and enjoy yourself! Whether you win the grand championship or are just there to gain some experience in competition barbecue, you may as well have fun while you do it.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In this installment, we took a few minutes to chat with legendary pitmaster Big Moe Cason from Des Moines, Iowa. His favorite thing about the world of BBQ is the people and the crowds. Everyone comes together and becomes part of a big barbecue family. Over the years, you get to know the people on the competition circuit and the other pitmasters. They become your friends and you get to share the love of barbecue, grilling, and smoking meats together.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. In our latest interview, we sat down with Ray Lampe of Dr. BBQ in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. BBQ is the name of Ray’s team, but it’s also his nickname. There’s a reason that Ray was inducted in the American Royal Barbecue Hall of Fame in 2014. He’s one of the most recognized pitmasters in the country, and he’s spent 15 years testing different BBQ cooking styles. He entered his first rib BBQ contest in 1982 and quit the family trucking business to become a full-time pitmaster. He’s written nine books, including Slow Fire: The Beginner's Guide to Barbecue, Dr. BBQ’s Big-Time Barbecue Cookbook, the official NFL Gameday Cookbook, and a new cookbook (the Big Green Egg Cookbook) to help home barbecue enthusiasts, backyard grillers, and those interested in competition barbecue learn how to cook the best New American Barbecue.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Today, we sat down with Tuffy Stone from Richmond, Virginia. You may also know Tuffy by his nickname, “The Professor,” because of his obsessions with the science of smoke and the precision at which he attacks his barbecue. Tuffy was culinary trained with French techniques at La Maisonette, but he turned to barbecue in 2004. After his first barbecue competition, he was hooked! He’s competed many times since, winning Grand Champion titles in almost every major barbecue competition, including back-to-back wins at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue. He’s won at the Kingsford Invitational and the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitation. Tuffy is also a judge at Destination America’s Barbecue Pitmasters and he competes at Memphis in May with his team, Cool Smoke. Sometimes, the team consists of his father, George, and Tuffy alone, but at larger competitions, they’ll have a team of eight. When he’s not competing, Tuffy Stone is running his restaurants, Q Barbecue in Richmond and A Sharper Palate catering company. He also teaches a Cool Smoke BBQ School. You’ll learn his recipes for chicken, ribs, pork, and brisket (which have won at some of the biggest, most major competitions in the United States). Tuffy is all about educating others in the art of barbecue, sharing his methods and strategies to win in big competitions. Whether you’re looking to enter competition barbecue or you just want to BBQ more in your backyard, taking a class is a great way to take your skills to the next level. As a French trained chef, Tuffy found it difficult to get into BBQ because it was so different from traditional cooking. Today, he loves everything about barbecue.

(Front Load Your Main Keywords. Remember to include http://www.mydomain.com style links in this part.) Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart Grill Master University sat down with two members of the Big Bob Gibson team from Decatur, Alabama. If the name Big Bob Gibson sounds familiar to you, we’re not surprised. It’s one of the oldest and most prestigious barbecue restaurants in the world! Founded in Decatur, Alabama, in 1925 by Bob Gibson, a railroad worker who spent his weekend barbecuing with friends and family over a hand-dug barbecue pit. His ‘cue was so delicious, it attracted people from miles away! He was a backyard barbecue enthusiast interested in taking his BBQ to the next level. He opened a family BBQ restaurant and the rest is history; 80 years later, there have been four generations of Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q pitmasters in the family. Gibson Bar-B-Q in the 1970s and 1980s, and he ushered in some great changes. Originally, the restaurant was all about smoked pork and chicken over hickory fired brick pits. When McLemore took over, they began also serving pork ribs, beef, and smoked turkey along with a few sides, like baked beans and stuffed potatoes.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Amy emphasizes her love for barbecue and how barbecue brings people together. Whether people are coming to a barbecue restaurant or they’re hoping to become the next Memphis Championship Barbecue winner, they come to be part of a barbecue family. Amy calls her team the Church of BBQ, and the people who come to eat their food and compete alongside them are part of the congregation. Once you come to a barbecue competition, you are enveloped into her family and into the greater barbecue family. There’s no feeling like that in the world! Barbecue is a subculture of America – a true slice of Americana – and everything that’s good about America is right here in BBQ.

Sign up for the free Quickstart Competition Barbecue Tips Interview Series https://www.grillmasteruniversity.com/quickstart We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews. Today, there are a lot of barbecue schools, classes, and cookbooks. Myron suggests you use the resources at hand to help you take your barbecue skills to the next level. This includes looking for any competition barbecue prep classes offered in your area or taking a barbecue class online. Learning from professional pitmasters and barbecue experts can shorten the learning curve, helping you take your pitmaster skills to the next level.