I have a question about the scores, what is the first, second and third score represent. I only have cooked MBN and dont understand KCBS scores yet. In MBN we have not recieved anything less than an 8, and now mostly 10's and a few 9's. The 9's seem to keep us out of the finals a few times.
Here is our rib box at New Holland. We felt it was the best we have done. The judges thought otherwise.
887 987 677 987 877 766 Good for 53rd place.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
887 987 677 987 877 766 Good for 53rd place.
Maybe it will help if you look at the scores a little different.
Appearance/Taste/Tenderness (it shows up near the top of the scoresheet)
Take the scores and group them that way:
So your scores:
887 987 677 987 877 766 Good for 53rd place.
Become:
Appearance: 896987
Taste: 887876
Tenderness: 777776
Basically the key here is that the tenderness was off. 7's won't get you a call, so I'd focus on getting that score up.
Appearance scores were good, 2 9's, 2 8's.
Taste was 3 8's, 2 7's and a 6's so you need to get those up some also.
Also realize that Taste is twice as many points and Tenderness which is twice as many points as Appearance.
You want to get more Taste scores, then Tenderness, so I'd focus on getting those two up.
Russ
KCBS is on a scale of 2-9, when scores as described are each judge in appearance, taste and texture, therefore if your scores are
988, 987
Then judge 1 gave a 9 for appearance, 8 for taste and 8 for texture.
Judge 2 gave 9 for appearance, 8 for taste, and 7 for texture.
I cooked them a little over 4 hours @ 275, wrapped for a little more than an hour. They were tender, but not fall off the bone and I thought they were sweet, but not horribly so.
Sled, yours look good, but not much different.
We felt that ribs and brisket are our best. Brisket ended up in the top third, but not as high as we hoped.