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Welcome Juggy. I was also at that rules meeting where this was discussed. Let's add a little history here for those that don't know THE REST OF THE STORY.

Once upon a time at the Royal there was a cook named Big Moe from Kalamazoo MI who had been accused of cheating in Michigan as he didn't light his fire until about 7 am on Saturday and took some walks. So at the Royal he's right across from JDB and he doesn't show up until 7 and JDB has the reps primed to watch him and they re-inspect his meats and it's all raw. So Moe fires up the pit and gets a roaring fire going then puts on a huge vat of sauce and tosses all his meat into it. JDB watches him like a hawk but that's it. At the awards a brisket simmered in sauce finished ahead of a wonderful brisket cooked for 18 hours by ... well you can guess the rest.

Immersing raw meat in a liquid to partial cook it is par boiling. If you leave it in the liquid to finish it's still technically par boiling as it's raw meat immersed in liquid. Putting partly cooked meat in a liquid is not parboiling and is legal. So jumpin Jim's chicken is sure legal. And butter is not a liquid but that's for another post.

Hope you hang around here some Juggy. It's a fun place.