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Got in Friday evening, fired up the UDS for some burgers, hard to beat a smoked / grilled burger off a UDS over Kingsford charcoal and a few wood chunks.  About half of my charcoal basket was full of unlit from my last cook, so I started a half chimney of charcoal, added 2 chunks of oak and 1 of...

Been building UDS cookers for a few years, started out building some mini ones out of 15 gallon drums, then moved on to the 55 gallon variety.  For my friends I build them at cost, but typically I will build and sell at $225 each.  After several builds, you start to find easier ways to do...

According to a tweet yesterday afternoon, from Derrick Riches.. http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2013/Masterbuilt-Manufacturing-Recalls-Electric-Smokers/

I can understand removing links to competing websites, but I had a post yesterday with 2 very informative links to non-competing websites (BBQ competition organizations) deleted and the post altered.  I saw another post from another member this morning with what was a link to an ebay item, but...

If you have yet to check it out, there is another BBQ show on currently on Travel Channel called BBQ Crawl.  It features Canadian BBQ Queen Danielle Dimovski (AKA- Diva Q) on a trek across the lower US from BBQ Competitions and visiting restaurants and Q hotspots along the way.  The series...

Kingsford charcoal twin packs (40# of charcoal) on sale for $9.99 through Monday, May 27.

This past weekend was the 4th Annual Beaumont Masonic Lodge Scholarship Benefit Cook Off sanctioned by the IBCA and held at the Elks Lodge in Beaumont, Texas.  The lodge is a great place to hold a cook off with plenty of electricity and water available to all the cookers and first class...

Competed this weekend in Vidor, Texas, in the IBCA sanctioned Texas BBQ Festival.  The festival has been around for over 30 years, but moved this year to it's new home, Conn Park.   There were the usual IBCA categories, beans, chicken, ribs and brisket, but Friday night we also had a mystery...

I finally got my drums yesterday, unfortunately my guy had told me they were 30 gallon, but when he brought them by, they are actually 15 gallon.  The good thing is they are new from a local packaging facility, never been used, the liner is a pull out plastic bag, clean with lids.  The bad thing...

I consider myself a brisket expert, being from Texas, I should be.  I think it's the official state meat, if not, it should be!  I have cooked them just about anyway known to man, except in the slow cooker, YUK!  I've cooked them fat side up, fat side down, wrapped and unwrapped, foiled, butcher...

After a number of discussions with Dave and others with their builds here, I had come to the conclusion I needed to try a mod for my RF pit.  Mine is a fuel hog, I start my fires with 20#'s of charcoal in a coal basket I built, then start chunking splits on the coals once the top layer gets...

For those who compete...for those who want to compete...for those who like "Pitmasters" but want some realism...for those that love good Q.... This is a trailer for a documentary about Competition BBQ, from the looks of the trailer, it is going to be a good one.  Just thought it was worth...

After a 3 month layoff from competition cooking, I kicked off the 2013 season cooking in the Jasper County Go Texan Cook Off in Silsbee, Texas this past weekend.  21 cook teams setup on the grounds of a local nightclub, Honky Tonk Texas starting on Friday morning until late Saturday evening. ...

Looking for some of you to throw some ideas at me on running a small rib cook off here in my hometown to benefit the local VFW.  I am only figuring on maybe 10 competitiors (really small town), but I am planning on opening it up to "cooking ribs by any means necessary" to allow for gas grills...

Earlier this year (March) I completed my first build, a 150 gallon RF rig on a trailer.  My 2 purposes for building it were to start cooking in some competitions and give me more Qpacity.  It has done both admirably and the smoker itself doesn't need any upgrades, but the trailer she sits on...

For any of you that are interested, the newest season of BBQ Pitmasters has begun on Destination America channel.  According to show producer John Markus, this is not really season 4, but season 3.5.  It is more a continuation of season 3, not sure what he means by that, but he's the producer. ...

Just completed my 5th and final competition of the 2012 calendar season due to a couple of reasons, there are none left within 100 miles of me and the next 6 weeks will be hectic enough with Thanksgiving and Christmas rolling in.  This was also one of the few comps that were doing pulled pork as...

If you were to build your dream smoker...what would it be like?  I am looking for opinions and input from everyone on tank and / or pipe size.  Earlier this year I finished my 150 gallon tank RF build and after doing several comps and really noticing other pits in the last 6 months from a...

4th comp of the year for me with a couple remaining on the schedule.  The cook off was associated with the Texas Rice Festival held in Winnie,Texas, the festival is in its' 43rd year, not sure on the history of the cook off, but it has been around for a few years as well.  Even with a nasty...

This past weekend I competed in my 3rd event of the year, I had plans on doing more, but the summer heat here in Texas (for those of us without campers) kind of keep you from cooking in June, July and August.  The comp was sanctioned by IBCA...http://www.ibcabbq.org/index.html  ...it was a...