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Tweedle
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We just finished our first contest this past weekend at the Harvard Fall Festival. This past weekend was amazing the weather was great, well except for Sat night when it 34*. The people were amazing, friendly helpfull and WICKED FUN. I have never had so much fun getting my but handed to me.
I want to thank everyone who helped us out this weekend and offered advice. Everyone was great
It was a very humbling experiance to see what truly good BBQ should be. wicked different than the back yard stuff. lol
When we went our goal was to turn everything in on time and not come in last place... :roll: well everything got turned in and we were 39th out of 40 over all.. so not DAL. :roll:
heres a few pics of the party eeerrrrrr I mean contest.
Just got there and nothing fell out on the way. Man i need a trailer....
All Set up
Best way to make friends... Beer and TP My wife and co-cook is on the left. They ran out of tp this year and we just happened to have some....
It got very cold on Sat. "NAAAWWW I dont need a jacket" says I as we left the house. My wife on the other hand was prepared.
Sarah turning out lettuce into a near putting green.
Our Turn in boxes
First off I forgot my time table at home so it was a disaster.
We did horrable in chicken and ribs, came in last on those. My CHicken was frightening. as one judge said on the comment card. "DEAD COOKING CAUSTIC CHICKEN" I spit the bite I took out and said a prayer that i didnt kill anyone with it..... not sure what went wrong there it was always good before.. oh well
My ribs came off the smoker about 3 1/2 hours earlyer than i wanted and almost over cooked I Wasn't thinking when i put them on and went my my offset time not my UDS time and poof dry ribs. i think they tasted great but not after 4 hours in foil in a cooler. oh well
Brisket we hit 37th place woohooo it was prob my third best brisket ever. It was also my third brisket ever so Im sure it will move down on the scale. I only had one rack on the UDS and the two briskets choked them so it didnt have the correct air flow never went above 170 and it was turn in time so we pulled and sliced them bumma .
Now my pork butt it was by far the worst i ever cooked the bark was almost like burnt charcoal and the meat , although cooked right tasted wierd to me. But i plated it with what i could find out of the two butts i cooked and the few peices of bark i could find that were edable and skipped the sauce because it would have taken to long and we got 19TH place That i am vaery happy about.
Next time less "stuff" more prepping oh and alot more beer and bourbon!
oh this is what i am most proud of and it was my wifes idea and work that made it happen. LETTUCE fairways. instead of PARSELY putting greens
I want to thank everyone who helped us out this weekend and offered advice. Everyone was great
It was a very humbling experiance to see what truly good BBQ should be. wicked different than the back yard stuff. lol
When we went our goal was to turn everything in on time and not come in last place... :roll: well everything got turned in and we were 39th out of 40 over all.. so not DAL. :roll:
heres a few pics of the party eeerrrrrr I mean contest.
Just got there and nothing fell out on the way. Man i need a trailer....
All Set up
Best way to make friends... Beer and TP My wife and co-cook is on the left. They ran out of tp this year and we just happened to have some....
It got very cold on Sat. "NAAAWWW I dont need a jacket" says I as we left the house. My wife on the other hand was prepared.
Sarah turning out lettuce into a near putting green.
Our Turn in boxes
First off I forgot my time table at home so it was a disaster.
We did horrable in chicken and ribs, came in last on those. My CHicken was frightening. as one judge said on the comment card. "DEAD COOKING CAUSTIC CHICKEN" I spit the bite I took out and said a prayer that i didnt kill anyone with it..... not sure what went wrong there it was always good before.. oh well
My ribs came off the smoker about 3 1/2 hours earlyer than i wanted and almost over cooked I Wasn't thinking when i put them on and went my my offset time not my UDS time and poof dry ribs. i think they tasted great but not after 4 hours in foil in a cooler. oh well
Brisket we hit 37th place woohooo it was prob my third best brisket ever. It was also my third brisket ever so Im sure it will move down on the scale. I only had one rack on the UDS and the two briskets choked them so it didnt have the correct air flow never went above 170 and it was turn in time so we pulled and sliced them bumma .
Now my pork butt it was by far the worst i ever cooked the bark was almost like burnt charcoal and the meat , although cooked right tasted wierd to me. But i plated it with what i could find out of the two butts i cooked and the few peices of bark i could find that were edable and skipped the sauce because it would have taken to long and we got 19TH place That i am vaery happy about.
Next time less "stuff" more prepping oh and alot more beer and bourbon!
oh this is what i am most proud of and it was my wifes idea and work that made it happen. LETTUCE fairways. instead of PARSELY putting greens