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Babbling Farker
and now i'm a kcbs CBJ. :-D
that is all. :thumb:
that is all. :thumb:
and now i'm a kcbs CBJ. :-D
that is all. :thumb:
i'm struggling to answer this question steve.
i knew 95% if not more of the info taught simply by competing and being an active member here, so it's hard for me to judge the class.
before i elaborate,
let me ask you, what is the expected level of quality of samples, generally, at a CBJ class?
Having helped Mike Lake with a class here in Iowa the BBQ is purposeley cooked poorly to give students something to judge and converse about.
Also, boxes are set up to learn good, bad and illegal.
I think it works well.
Ed
Ok, that's what I was thinking was the case.
I disagree with that approach.
And what would be your approach???
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Congrats on taking the class - now your real education begins .
I'd say for you to try and judge at least half a dozen contests in the next year if you can. You're going to learn so much more by talking to the other judges in between categories than any class can try to teach you. On thing that I found to work very well was to let the Table Captain know that you're a new judge and to let you know if your scores were way out of line with the others' scores.
Above all - be honest and have fun!
And what would be your approach???
Remember, you have a VERY LIMITED amount of time and you only get one shot (the way KCBS CBJ is currently set up).
don't know about a better approach, but why have a room of people discuss poorly cooked BBQ, when they could as easily be discussing good BBQ?