Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Barbecue New 'Que Review — Coming Right at You
Posted by Chris Chamberlain on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Walking around the park looking at the various contraptions that contestants were using to add smoke to meat was like taking a stroll through the parts yard on "Junkyard Wars." From the two-story high tech edifice used by the Harley Hogs Smokers to a simple 55-gallon drum with a chimney pipe sticking out of it, if you could build a fire in it and find a place to cram some brisket or a pork butt in it, odds are somebody was making some delicious barbecue with it in Riverfront Park.
My personal favorite was the pink pig smoker fabricated by the Algood BBQ Pit Crew from just outside of Cookeville. The friendly members of the crew showed me all the brilliant add-ons that they had manufactured to improve the smoke flow of the cooker and also to make it, well just more fun.
In what I considered a surprising result, the Peg Leg Porkers team only finished fourth in the Whole Hog category, despite the assistance of Pitmaster extraordinaire Pat Martin who helped them smoke this amazing-looking pig. The PLP team did win the "Grand Ole Porker Award" award as the top scoring local team in all the MBN categories.
If you are interested in all the results or just want to giggle at a couple of the punny pig names that the teams use, here's the whole rundown:
Music City Festival and BBQ Championship 2011People's Choice Award
Champion: Frugal MacDoogalAnything "But"
1st The Whiskey Pigs
2nd Jeff Co Grill Shop
3rd So Good BBQKansas City Barbeque Society
KCBS Grand Champion: The Swiggin Pig
KBCS Reserve Grand Champion: Warren County PorkchoppersChicken/Poultry
1st The House of HIckory
2nd The Long Dawgs
3rd The Ash Holes
4th Southern City Flavors
5th The Jiggy PiggyPork Ribs
1st The Swiggin Pig **Had a perfect score of 180**
2nd The House of Q
3rd The Jiggy Piggy
4th The Q Crew
5th Optimus SwinePork
1st The Warren County Porkchoppers
2nd The Algood Bar-B-Q Pit Crew
3rd An Aggie and His BBQ
4th Master's BBQ
5th House of QBrisket
1st Canetuck's BBQ Tea
2nd Rocky Top Barbeque
3rd An Aggie and His BBQ
4th The Algood Bar-B-Q Pit Crew
5th Master's BBQMemphis Barbecue Network
Grand Champion: Boars Night Out (returning champions!)
Grand Ole Porker Award: The Peg Leg Porkers
The highest scoring local MBN teamWhole Hog
1st Boar's Night Out
2nd 10 Bones BBQ
3rd Jurassic Pork
4th The Peg Leg Porkers
5th Wild Boar SmokersShoulder
1st Boars Night Out
2nd Curly Tail Smokers
3rd Jurassic Pork
4th The Peg Leg Porkers
5th 10 Bones BBQRibs
1st 10 Bones
2nd Curly Tail Smokers
3rd Boars Night Out
4th The Wild Boar Smokers
5th The Peg Leg PorkersBackyard/Amateur
Pork Ribs
1st Wilder-than-your Bar-B-Qu
2nd Big B's BBQ
3rd SEYA BBQ TeamBeef
1st Show US Your Racks
2nd Braun Construction
3rd Wilder-than-your Bar-B-QuPoultry
1st Tastee Racks
2nd Grill Team 6
3rd L A Grillers
So you Bitesters have another year to perfect your techniques and recipes and enter next year. Start working on a dirty-sounding name too, and you'll be halfway there.
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