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Secrets of BBQ Class
Barbecue Cooking Classes California &
Washington
The BBQ Institute
BBQ Classes, How to Cook BBQ, Recipes, How to Modify Smokers, Books & Consulting
Teddy Bear's BBQ The website that
started it all
Our BBQ Competition BBQ team and catering company in Monroe, WA
Seahawks BBQ
Supporting the home town team
Montana's Best BBQ
Sauces and Rubs
Our line of BBQ seasonings
The Bitches of BBQ
Phyllis' all female BBQ competition team
www.OpBBQ.com is the
Pacific Northwest outpost for
www.operationbbq.com
"To honor those who protect our freedoms, and their loved
ones,
with the unique American hospitality of BBQ."
www.virtualweberbullet.com This site is great regardless of what you cook
on. The Weber Smokey Mountain aka WSM is the $179.99 baseline of great BBQ
Pits. It is used by a whole bunch of folks who consistently win BBQ
competitions. If you spend more on a quality pit all you get is more
capacity and a popular way to increase capacity is to get more WSM's. You
can easily spend more and get an inferior pit. I have been on the web sine Netscape 2.0 was state of the art.
I have never found another forum so polite and nice to newbie's in all my
years of surfing. Please remember this is a family site so no four letter words
like "Diet".
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Click HERE for Cee Dub's Website
everything to do with Dutch Ovens
Boss Hawg's World Champion BBQ team and restaurant in Topeka,
Kansas.
Boss Hawg's is run by Elizabeth Lumpkin who started the
restaurant with her late husband Hank. They were an invaluable
help in getting us started and will always be an inspiration.
God Bless You Both.
Lost Nation Smoke Company Smoking up
some mighty fine Q down east in Vermont.
Why BBQ by
Billy "Belly" Maynard
The Kansas City Barbeque Society which is the
biggest sanctioning body for competition in the US.
Southern Food
Alliance Preserving the awesome heritage of Southern cooking
KJ of Iowa the
originator of the Charcoal basket. His site is full of good info on
modifications for inexpensive offsets and ECB's (El Cheapo Brinkmann's)
International Barbeque
Cookers Association although if you look at the calendar every
single event is in Texas
Texas Barbecue Trail
Barbecue: A Texas BBQ Love Story Great DVD
on BBQ in Texas www.BBQFilm.com
BARBECUE AMERICA -- A 13 PT.
TELEVISION SERIES
Hosted by KCTS-TV (PBS) Seattle, Washington
We met Rick at Red Hook he is one of the nicest people you could want to meet
and a true BBQ fan who knows what good BBQ should taste like.
Dr. BBQ One of the top cooks
and instructors in the country
RandyQ's Barbecue Ramblings
BBQ Taboos is a must read
Boss Hawgs World
Champion BBQ team and restaurant in Topeka, Kansas
BBQ FAQ Gotta love
those TLA's
B & B Charcoal Some
high quality lump, not made from scraps of dubious origin.
Famous Dave's Seven years of living in Minnasocold and I
grew to like his sauce. The bread pudding is one of the best I've had.
His meat is OK but any serious back yard smoker can do better. He sells
his sauce and book on this site.
Hawgeyes BBQ
Great source of rubs and other things BBQ.
Big
Green Egg Forum I'm not going to get in the
religious war about Steel v. Ceramic but this board has a lot of good recipe
ideas.
The International Dutch Oven
Society The Dutch Oven is a fine companion to
any smoker
www.lehmans.com An old
fashioned Amish General Store with all kinds of things you will not be able to
live without. They take excellent care of their customers.
Lexington Barbecue The best Barbecue Pork Teddy Bear has ever eaten!
Barbecue'n on the Internet
Lots of good stuff
BBQ Judge
Johnny Garlic's
This link has been here since 2003 when Konrad had the pleasure
of cooking with Guy in Houston and Kansas city. Now Guy Fieri the co-owner
is the 2006 "The Next Food Network Star." Congratulations to Guy.
Penzey's Spices
Bad Byron's Butt Rub
Grand Champion - American Royal/KC
Masterpiece International Invitational October 2001 Seller of Rubs with a
memorable logo ;)
Texas Rib Rangers
Very Successful Team with excellent products used by other teams
My Spicer online spice
retailer
American Royal One of
the big three National Competitions
Memphis in May is both
one of the big three competitions and a sanctioning body for MIM events held in
the south.
Jack Daniels
Invitational is also one of the big three
A Redneck Pig Roast
Informative and humorous
Carbondale Pork District
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Beware meat that is Flavorized or some such by the addition
of liquids this is not what you want.
Ribman All about ribs
Smart and Final/Cash and Carry, Costco and Sam's Club are all
sources of meat for award winning teams.
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The best prices on Beef and Pork I've found is
Smart and Final Smart & Final stores
Non-membership warehouse grocery stores; Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada
and Mexico. They also go by the name
Cash & Carry Wholesale foodservice supply warehouse; California, Idaho, Oregon
and Washington.
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If you ask you can get the classic BBQ cuts of Beef and Pork at
Costco and
Sam's Club they have good prices and are more national than Smart and Final.
Meat Wholesalers will often happily sell to the public.
Just don't expect a display of meat. They normally open early and close
early and don't work weekends. Minimums range from a plastic cryovac
package to a case. You need to know what your asking for when you walk in
or phone them. You can get a better choice is you order a case of exactly
what you want and the price will be better than a butcher but not as good as the
first three above.
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Books
New Books Cheap
David Spriggs the owner not only saves you a bundle on Books he is also a great
friend to BBQ.
Abe Books Good resource
for find out of print books
#1 Recipe Resource is
The Virtual Weber Bullet
Best recipe archive on the web
is
www.virtualweberbullet.com
Includes some of our recipes. While this
site is dedicated to the Weber Smokey Mountain (WSM) it is a gold mine for
anyone wanting to learn how to cook real BBQ and for experts looking to refine
their technique. It is broken into two main parts an incredibly
comprehensive website and a wonderful discussion forum that treats complete
beginners with respect. Don't forget the recipes on the forum
section.
Bread, Pizza & Focaccia on the BBQ
Grills make great bread cookers. The ceramic grills like a Big Green Egg
are the ultimate. Any grill can cook bread with the addition of an
inexpensive pizza stone. When cooking indirect you can place the dough
directly on a clean oiled grate.
Our favorite bread recipe site is
www.TheArtisan.net
Other Recipe Sites
BBQ FAQ Recipes and answers to
all the common questions this is from the internet so nothing should be taken as
a proven fact
Jim Goode's BBQ Beef
Rub Pay Attention Class ;)
Naked Whiz's Spatchcock Chicken
This works on Weber Kettles and WSM's and is one of our favorite ways to prepare
Chicken to eat at home
Ugly Brothers includes some good
sauce recipes
3Men With Nothing
Better To Do this is a great resource
Len Poli
How to make your own Sausage recipes
New Books
Cheap This is the best pricing on new cook books. They have an
excellent selection of BBQ books and are great friends to the BBQ world.
We use them all the time.
Manufactures Website with Recipes and/or
Forum
If you are using wood or charcoal
The BBQ Guru is an easy and wonderful
modification. The guru controls pit temp and monitors meat temp.
Everything is now on the
Smoker Modifications Page This is one of the most
popular features of our site.
Greater Omaha BBQ
Society Mrs. Teddy Bear AKA Cuddle Bear is from Nebraska and her family has
both a Machine shop which turns out top quality works including soon we are
hoping world class smokers and a Corn and Cattle company.
Iowa BBQ Society One of the
better regional sites
California BBQ Association
There are some very wonderful people in this great state where we used to live
and this site does the state proud!
Florida BBQ Assoc. A
large innovative well run organization
Arizona BBQ Association Wealth of information
New England Barbecue Society A very well run
organization
North West Dutch Oven Society for those of us
in Washington State and surrounding area.
Weber Home of the 22" Weber Kettle
all you need to get started and the Weber Smokey Mountain one of the all time
great pits, its one and only short coming is capacity and given the price many
solve that limitation by owning multiple WSM.s. I have owned a half dozen
Charcoal starting chimneys including the Kingsford and nothing but nothing beats
a Weber chimney for starting charcoal. If you want to turbo charge it then
sit it on top of your fish or turkey fryer. Great instructions for
indirect heat cooking and recipe ideas.
If you want to buy Weber stuff the Virtual Weber Bullet (above) has a link to
Amazon that helps support them.
Dave Klose Pits Dave Klose is talked
about with great reverence by the folks in Texas. He not only makes the
most popular premium Pit in America today but is a genuinely nice and extremely
helpful guy. I cut my teeth on a mass merchandise offset smoker and then
stepped up to a Klose 18"x30" smoker. The very first time I cooked with it I
came home with two ribbons. A Klose is worth every penny! He also has some
very fine stainless steel rib racks.
Lodge Cast Iron Lodge is the
maker of all manner of fine cast iron cookware including Dutch ovens.
Please be warned it is very hard to only buy one piece of cast iron cookware and
once started it is hard to stop.
Tel Tru
Thermometers are now are pit Thermometer of choice.
"Cyclops" home made slow
pit BBQ pit, Tucson, Arizona
Some folks who feed logs into big steel pits
have a less than generous attitude towards ceramic cookers. The Asians
have been cooking with these for many centuries. They can cook low and
slow or sear at 1000°f. Take care, flash burns are a danger with these.
All three these units can cook world class food. T
- Big
Green Egg Probably the most popular of the three. The BGE forum is
one of the best on the web.
- Primo
Grill The only one Made in the USA Ceramic cooker. This seems to be
very well engineered and there are less reports of problems than with some
others. Primo grills with miss matched shades of green on top and bottom
may be the best Ceramic value available. They are well engineered right
here in the USA.
- Kamado
This is a well made and popular unit
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