Don't try to cook the way they do on TV.

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Interesting article.   Reminds me of the Loudness War in music--on the radio, the louder song has an advantage, so record companies strive to make their songs louder than everyone else's even when it harms the music for home listening.
 
Well, shoot. There goes my career as a TV pitmaster.
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It's no secret that comp recipes are over the top to provide one bite of magic. But I don't agree with everything the writer says. Frankly I was put off by his holier than thou suggestion that a newcomer to BBQ must follow his recipes to the letter, lest he be doomed to fail. Further, his notion that foiling isn't necessary is at best a matter of opinion, at worst an egotistical "It's my way or the highway" statement. It's necessary if it provides the result you're looking for! I myself don't like fall off the bone ribs, but if I go to your house and you proudly hand me a rib from which the bone drops out on the plate, I'm gonna eat it and compliment you on it. If that's how you like your ribs and how you set out to make them, then you've just made the best damn ribs on the planet. Not everyone likes my BBQ, I wouldn't expect them to. But if I set out to make something with a specific flavor and texture, and I nail it, I've just won the biggest BBQ competition in the world. The one against myself.
 
 
It's no secret that comp recipes are over the top to provide one bite of magic. But I don't agree with everything the writer says. Frankly I was put off by his holier than thou suggestion that a newcomer to BBQ must follow his recipes to the letter, lest he be doomed to fail. Further, his notion that foiling isn't necessary is at best a matter of opinion, at worst an egotistical "It's my way or the highway" statement. It's necessary if it provides the result you're looking for! I myself don't like fall off the bone ribs, but if I go to your house and you proudly hand me a rib from which the bone drops out on the plate, I'm gonna eat it and compliment you on it. If that's how you like your ribs and how you set out to make them, then you've just made the best damn ribs on the planet. Not everyone likes my BBQ, I wouldn't expect them to. But if I set out to make something with a specific flavor and texture, and I nail it, I've just won the biggest BBQ competition in the world. The one against myself.
cant believe they's expose them like that with the reality tv market  and the crap they make money off of
 
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