ZILLA
is One Chatty Farker
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2005
- Location
- Universal City, Texas
Indeed the cook wins the comp not the pit. That being said, I think there is a correlation to higher placements/winning and low maintenance cookers, comfort, and rest, in some combination.
It's much easier for a cook to be on their game when they are physically comfortable in the heat or cold. When they can get out of the often very loud abient noise of a comp where loud generators and music run 24/7, which will wear you out even in the finest weather. Six hours of solid sleep in an RV gives a person an advantage over a person resting in a Zero G chair all night.
I person cooking on a backwoods/FEC low maintenence cooker has a greater consistancy in the outcome over an offset. Pellets are very consistant in their manufacture as is charcoal, but if you end up with varying quality firewood over the course of the year you cannot be as consistant as the person cooking with Kingford or pellets.
So if you are using an offset pit and using a canopy as a shelter you better have a solid plan for rest and year long plan for great firewood and you have to be on your game, hyper dilegent if you will. If you beat a winning cook who has a fully automated setup and a cush RV by one point overall, and you cook on an offset out of a canopy in foul weather, you didn't just beat him by a point. You gave him a royal ass kicking in my opinion.
It's much easier for a cook to be on their game when they are physically comfortable in the heat or cold. When they can get out of the often very loud abient noise of a comp where loud generators and music run 24/7, which will wear you out even in the finest weather. Six hours of solid sleep in an RV gives a person an advantage over a person resting in a Zero G chair all night.
I person cooking on a backwoods/FEC low maintenence cooker has a greater consistancy in the outcome over an offset. Pellets are very consistant in their manufacture as is charcoal, but if you end up with varying quality firewood over the course of the year you cannot be as consistant as the person cooking with Kingford or pellets.
So if you are using an offset pit and using a canopy as a shelter you better have a solid plan for rest and year long plan for great firewood and you have to be on your game, hyper dilegent if you will. If you beat a winning cook who has a fully automated setup and a cush RV by one point overall, and you cook on an offset out of a canopy in foul weather, you didn't just beat him by a point. You gave him a royal ass kicking in my opinion.