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Send us Fan Mail We are going to get into how to play around with your flavor profiles with Sterling Smith, 2022 World Barbecue Champion, US Navy Veteran, barbecue teacher, cookbook author, and owner/Pitmaster of Loot N’ Booty BBQ. Smith has been competing on the professional barbeque circuit since 2009. In that time, Sterling and his family have traveled nationally and internationally to compete...

Send us Fan Mail REPEAT BROADCAST DUE TO HEALTH CONCERNS If you love BBQ, there is a very good chance you have heard of Big Jim Stancil, or at least his company, Bare Knuckles BBQ , which was featured during season 3 of BBQ Pitmasters on Destination America . Big Jim is a full time corporate caterer with 2 Grand Championships and a slew of category wins under his belt. HIs number is on speed dial...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Lambert is a 5-time Memphis in May World Champion, the 2017 American Royal World Champion in Ribs, and won the 2019 World Championship at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He also was the first runner up at the 2018 World Food Championship BBQ competition. Residing just outside of Memphis, Tennessee, Mark will tell you that his aim is to cook meat to blow your mind, not t...

Send us Fan Mail NEW SHOW Blane Hunter (a.k.a. Mr. Porky Butts) grew up barbecuing in south Texas from a very young age. With over 27 years of experience combined with a Culinary education from Johnson and Wales and FVTC culinary schools Blane started competing professionally in the world of BBQ in 2013. In the seven short years that followed he has accumulated one of the most impressive resumes o...

Send us Fan Mail REPEAT - NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK TRAVIS CLARK has 10 World BBQ Titles to his name as Andy and Todd get caught up with his doings in Oklahoma as well as considerations in preparing for getting a run at a summer of BBQ in your own backyard. Co-Host Todd Johns is going to wax eloquent on grilling fish, including the use of planks. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

Send us Fan Mail REPEAT - Joey Machado has over 20 years in BBQ and 10+ years in the business of BBQ specializing in brand and product building. He helped build B&B Charcoal to its current ubiquitous state but is now a charcoal and BBQ pit manufacturer at his own “Texas Original Brands”.  He also specializes in white labeling and consulting in the BBQ Segment. We will talk to him about how and...

Send us Fan Mail ALL ABOUT CHICKEN Back-to-Back KCBS Turkey Smoke Team of the Year Chiles Cridlin of Wolf’s Revenge BBQ, (he crushed the competition), to talk about doing the more popular poultry option (it’s chicken, right?). You may want to take notes on this one as it’s coming out fast and furious. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

Send us Fan Mail Before you buy your next rack of ribs you owe to yourself to hear what Craig Sharry says about how you can get tricked into getting what you DON’T want.  Craig Sharry is the Pitmaster of Texas Pepper Jelly Competition BBQ team out of Houston, TX. Craig is a 2-time World Champion at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Craig is also a 2-time winner of the San Antonio Stock Show &a...

Send us Fan Mail Sunny Moody is the 2021 WFC Steak Category Champion and has received numerous awards, Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion plus multiple 1st place finishes in many categories in BBQ and Grilling. After a life altering diagnosis of a brain and spinal malformation along with MS, Sunny went through a major lifestyle transformation losing 80 pounds which ignited a fire inside her...

Send us Fan Mail Brad Leighninger of Getting’ Basted BBQ is the very definition of winning consistently. Winning pork at Memphis in May, winning the Jack Daniels Invitational, and back-to-back KCBS Team of the Year Championships (which he has won 3 out of 4 years), all of that while running multiple restaurants. Brad has become the benchmark of consistency. In this episode Brad is going to get int...

Send us Fan Mail Sterling Smith, 2022 World Barbecue Champion, US Navy Veteran, barbecue teacher, cookbook author, and owner/Pitmaster of Loot N’ Booty BBQ, has been competing on the professional barbeque circuit since 2009. In that time, Sterling and his family have traveled nationally and internationally to compete in major competitions including the Jack Daniel’s World BBQ Invitational, where t...

Send us Fan Mail If you love BBQ, there is a very good chance you have heard of Big Jim Stancil, or at least his company, Bare Knuckles BBQ , which was featured during season 3 of BBQ Pitmasters on Destination America . Big Jim is a full time corporate caterer with 2 Grand Championships and a slew of category wins under his belt. HIs number is on speed dial across the NFL with teams like the New Y...

Send us Fan Mail TRAVIS CLARK has 10 World BBQ Titles to his name as Andy and Todd get caught up with his doings in Oklahoma as well as considerations in preparing for getting a run at a summer of BBQ in your own backyard. Co-Host Todd Johns is going to wax eloquent on grilling fish, including the use of planks. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

Send us Fan Mail REPEAT DUE TO ANDY TEACHING AMERICAN BBQ IN SOUTH KOREA "Celebrity Chef" Aaron Franklin was named Best Chef: Southwest by the James Beard Foundation in 2015.  After countless hours spent working the pit, he has earned a reputation as one of the top celebrity chefs in the BBQ. It all began in 2009 when he and his wife Stacy opened up the first location of Franklin Barbecu...

Send us Fan Mail Joey Machado has over 20 years in BBQ and 10+ years in the business of BBQ specializing in brand and product building. He helped build B&B Charcoal to its current ubiquitous state but is now a charcoal and BBQ pit manufacturer at his “Texas Original Brands”.  He also specializes in white labeling and consulting in the BBQ Segment. We will talk to him about how and why there is...

Send us Fan Mail Megan & husband Jason Day have garnered 5 World Championships, and four of those are for the incredible rubs and sauces in the BurntFinger.com line-up. Megan (one of our favorite guests) has been featured on The Today Show, Food Network’s Chopped Grill Masters (winner), the Amazon Prime documentary Smoke & Ribbons, the front page of the New York Times, Fox & Friends, a...

Send us Fan Mail A culinary institute trained chef, Chef Tom Jackson always brings it to the recipes he consistently develops and unveils on YouTube.  If you have a weekend BBQ with friends and family, this is the guy to listen to when you have to get ready, and it doesn't even have to be a holiday.  Just the same, Tom is going to share some recipe ideas, like how to get that wonderfully thin...

Send us Fan Mail As a respected authority on Texas-style barbecue, Jess Pryles is also a co-founder of the Australasian Barbecue Alliance, designed and releases the JP Signature Edition Pitts & Spitts smoker, created an internationally- acclaimed line of meat seasonings under the Hardcore Carnivore® brand and has partnered and been ambassador for numerous brands including Kingsford Charcoal, L...

Send us Fan Mail Pitmaster Adam Roberts is a multiple-trophy-winning barbecue contest competitor. Adam has also authored two international best-selling books 'Ribs & Sides' in 2017 and 'Barbecue Like a Boss' which was released in late 2021. Both books were awarded Top 5 Barbecue Book of the Year (USA) in 2018 & 2022 respectively.  Roberts is a dedicated teacher of Ameri...

Send us Fan Mail "Celebrity Chef" Aaron Franklin was named Best Chef: Southwest by the James Beard Foundation in 2015.  After countless hours spent working the pit, he has earned a reputation as one of the top celebrity chefs in the BBQ. It all began in 2009 when he and his wife Stacy opened up the first location of Franklin Barbecue, a food trailer located just off the interstate in Aus...

Send us Fan Mail David Gafford has carved out a niche for himself reviewing backyard items, from fire pits to BBQ pits, while running and operating www.thebarbecuelab.com . His videos and articles are keeping people up to date on the latest BBQ products that can help raise their game in search of that perfect smoke. Recently David attended the Hearth, Patio, BBQ Association Expo trade show in Loui...

Send us Fan Mail Steven Raichlen is synonymous with barbecue. The James Beard Award-winning author of an impressive array of New York Times bestselling cookbooks, a Barbecue Hall of Famer, and a PBS star, he has shaped America’s obsession with live-fire cooking for decades. It started in 1998, when Workman published Raichlen’s groundbreaking THE BARBECUE! BIBLE , which fired a grilling revolution...

Send us Fan Mail When they talk about the best BBQ place in America there are a couple names ALWAYS in the conversation - one of them being Big Bob Gibson's in Decatur, Alabama. Chris Lilly is a 4th generation partner of Big Bob's and is the head pitmaster of the Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q Competition Cooking Team, the winner of 17 World BBQ Championships in meat categories, and holds a reco...

Send us Fan Mail Artist STRETCH Rumaner is completely innovative and original, as his appearance on BBQ Pitmasters proved. A frequent guest of Guy Fieri (he’s part of the famous Mess Lords), and not just on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, STRETCH is becoming a common fixture on Food Network shows. He is a wild man and is always a favorite of the show. He actually ziplined a whole hog into the Americ...

Send us Fan Mail THE WINNINGEST MAN IN BBQ! He’s won over 200 grand championships resulting in over 1,800 total trophies, 30 state championships, 8 Team of the Year awards, and 11 national championships. Myron’s team has taken three first place whole hogs at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbeque Competition; has been the Grand Champion at the World Championship in Memphis three...