Chicago area KCBS judging class

[2Fat]

On Saturday February 21, Mike Lake will be conducting a KCBS Judges
Class in Chicago. His e-mail is: rrribs@internetni.com. J. Staggs is
hosting the class at his trucking company which is near Halstead and
Canalport. This would be a great opportunity for the Chicago area bretern to learn alittle about comp. BBQ

Buzz

[BBQchef33]

Come on boys... SIGN UP... !!!!! Get our names out there. I'll try to have the cards printed up by then.

[parrothead]

I just sent off an e-mail. I'm going for it.

[willkat98]

Well Phil will be in town anyway.

He supposed to be surprising me for my birthday

So is it a 3 some?

Halsted and Canalport. Can you say "****sville". But they start knocking down alot of the projects in recent years there, so we should only ger car jacked like twice or something, no more than that though.

"Get Whitey"

"Roll'em Up"

[Solidkick]

So is it a 3 some?

BRDBBQ, you gonna let this one pass too? You definitely are slipping......

[brdbbq]

Yep I'm slipping even read it yesterday. Phil Bill and Greg a threesome....send pictures.

[willkat98]

Here you go

[brdbbq]

If I had Photo Shop I could get into some really deep $hit here.

[parrothead]

That's funny. How about the "Tree Stooges". (From the south side).

[willkat98]

Over by dare

[parrothead]

Let's go visit Buzz. Up Nort, bout tree hours.

[willkat98]

he one dem Grabowski's

[willkat98]

Come on boys... SIGN UP... !!!!! Get our names out there. I'll try to have the cards printed up by then.

Well, Greg signed him and I up last night.

Phil, where's my cards!!!!

[rbinms33]

Man, I wish they had one closer. I've been looking for a KCBS or MIM judging class for a couple of years now.

[parrothead]

They gotta have some near you. I may end up with some info or contacts for you after the class.

[rbinms33]

Thanks, Greg.....you'd think they'd have some MIM classes right around here but I haven't seen any yet. Just out of curiousity....what's the cost?

[parrothead]

I think she said it was going to be $65 that includes a membership. Something like that.

[rbinms33]

That's pretty cheap for the info/knowledge you should get and you get a year's worth of the Bull Sheet too! I just checked the MIM site again. They took the link off there for their list of judging classes. I guess I'm definately gonna have to find a KCBS class now.

[parrothead]

Excellent day at the KCBS judging class.

Bill and I both arrived about a half hour early, hung out, and finally got to register. We are now both members of the KCBS. Learned a ton of **** about the whole judging process. I would recomend this to anyone thinking of doing competition cooking. Don't know if I'll ever actually do any judging, but it was a good day eating BBQ, meeting people into Q and learning the ends and outs of the behind the scenes action at a cook off.

Plus I got to spend time with Bill again, which is of course always a plus.

[Solidkick]

March 13--Stillwater, OK

Instructor: Ed Roith

Contact: Chuck Willoughby, 405-744-6071
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Man, I wish they had one closer. I've been looking for a KCBS or MIM judging class for a couple of years now.

Closest I could find to you Richie, unless you want to travel to Iowa or PA.
http://www.kcbs.us/

[Solidkick]

Glad you two had a great day. I thought of you two a couple of times yesterday and wondered how it went. thanks for the update! :wink:

[2Fat]

glad to see ya made the class ok--it sure does help if ya ever want to compete---gotta come to Shannon in July for the Ill State Champ--I'll be either cooking or judging--depends on the budget

Buzz

[willkat98]

Excellent day at the KCBS judging class.

Bill and I both arrived about a half hour early, hung out, and finally got to register. We are now both members of the KCBS. Learned a ton of **** about the whole judging process. I would recomend this to anyone thinking of doing competition cooking. Don't know if I'll ever actually do any judging, but it was a good day eating BBQ, meeting people into Q and learning the ends and outs of the behind the scenes action at a cook off.

Plus I got to spend time with Bill again, which is of course always a plus.

And lets not forget you now know how to Barbecue Ice Cream.

OMG that was funny.

I barbecue on my Weber Genesis.

[willkat98]

glad to see ya made the class ok--it sure does help if ya ever want to compete---gotta come to Shannon in July for the Ill State Champ--I'll be either cooking or judging--depends on the budget

Buzz

Greg and I are thinking of going to, 2Fat. And thanks for the notice on this class. First one they ever did in Chicago.

I might have a chance of judging the Naperville RibFest. The mayor of Naperville, and 4 other the even organizers where at this class. Struck up a conversation during break.

Hmmm...ribs.

[willkat98]

I had a great time with you too Greg. Some good laughs for sure. And thanks for the Super Smokers Texas Hot BBQ sauce.

2Fat knows this, and now Greg and I do (other competitors/judges in the Brethren too) but I want to share with you all the biggest lesson I learned today:

Judges are not experts.

Now you might say "duh", but let me explain.

Greg and I were there. A guy from Sterling IL was with us, fabricates his own pits like Greg. 3 other people at our table. One, a younger guy from Chicago, North Side, who likes to eat BBQ, but does not cook it.

Another guy, retired, Bloomingdale (well off) who thinks a hamburger on his Genesis grill is BBQ. Third guy, retired, like ribs on his gas grill but doesnt take the membrane off cuz its too hard to do.

So at our judging table, just over half the guys really knew what smoking was (I mean really knows from eating it all the time) so we can tell if something is too smoky, to mild, too acidic, etc. The others have only "Chili's BBack Song" to fall back on.

There was another table with competition guys, and festival organizers. So 1/3 of that table had "back yard" experience. Couple tables had appeared to gotten no closer than FoodTV to real BBQ before.

So am I an expert? Hell no, I'm not that vain. But brothers, if you ever enter any contest, no matter how big or small, just go into it and come out of it knowing that you might get judged by people who don't know your "style" of BBQ.

Just putting an entry together to meet the varying levels of personal preference is impossible.

Second thing I learned, each slice is an individual. I took a slice of briket, Sterling took the next slice. His had perfect tenderness, mine was a rubber band. Uniform slicing is vital to get your product judged evenly.

That was one hell of a good time though. Wish we had more time to stay after and polish off those 10 racks sitting there. :)

Thanks again for the heads up 2Fat

[parrothead]

glad to see ya made the class ok--it sure does help if ya ever want to compete---gotta come to Shannon in July for the Ill State Champ--I'll be either cooking or judging--depends on the budget

Buzz

Probably will depending on when it is. The guy teaching the class said that everyone at the class today would get an invite to judge at shannon.

[willkat98]

I wanna judge the Butt to Butt competition.

[parrothead]

I'll bet you do.

[willkat98]

Greg, I'll probe your butt and give it my certified judging approval (if it meats criteria.)

After all, I took an oath.

[Davewey]

Dame brother, you got to take an oath.

That's it I'am off to Google to find me a class.

[2Fat]

I wanna judge the Butt to Butt competition.

Heck you can judge it----I want to get an invite and cook in it--but pork is my weakness--gonna have to tweak it up some this year!!!

Injection and more hrs on the cooker

Buzz

[parrothead]

And ya get a badge too.

[Davewey]

I caa BS on the badge right now!

I say you ant got no stinking badge's

[parrothead]

You shall see. Badges there be. ( In my my best yoda voice).

[2Fat]

well did ya order them pretty blue ofishul judging shirts??

Buzz

[parrothead]

well did ya order them pretty blue ofishul judging shirts??

Bill did. I opted not to.

[willkat98]

well did ya order them pretty blue ofishul judging shirts??

Buzz

Yep, and I'm wearing it, with badge, to the Bashes.

Now I am an "official" *******

[chad]

Now I am an "official" *******


You didn't need a badge or shirt of us to verify your status!! :D

[rbinms33]

March 13--Stillwater, OK

Instructor: Ed Roith

Contact: Chuck Willoughby, 405-744-6071
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Man, I wish they had one closer. I've been looking for a KCBS or MIM judging class for a couple of years now.


Closest I could find to you Richie, unless you want to travel to Iowa or PA.
http://www.kcbs.us/


Thanks Kick, but with any luck I'll be turning over the house keys to someone else that day. (bout time we sold this thing!) I don't think I'll see one this far south but maybe somewhere in MO.

[willkat98]

Richie, if you move, let me or Phil know, so we can update the database.

I gotta top this years Xmas card, and dont want to send it to some farker in your old place.

[rbinms33]

I gotta top this years Xmas card, and dont want to send it to some farker in your old place.


Will do....don't know if the new guy bbq's or not but he's getting a heckuva backyard to do it with. Hopefully, we'll have the new house built by Christmas....LOL....if only I could fast forward to then.