BBQ RADIO NETWORK

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest on BBQ RADIO NATION, Rod Gray, was crowned Grand Champion of the 2013 Kingsford’s BBQ Pitmasters (Season 4) on national television.  A National Championship in 2009, Rod Gray of BBQ competition team Pellet Envy was also the runner-up National Champion in 2010 and has been named the best pork ribs and brisket cook in the entire country.  In other words, Rod i...

Send us Fan Mail The heart of Plowboys BBQ is competition-style barbecue. It began in 2001 when Todd Johns and his brother-in-law, Randy Hinck, started Pork Pullin Plowboys, their competition team. For the next six years, Todd and Randy would travel all over the country, participating in competitions, perfecting their craft and learning what makes truly great barbecue. Along the way Todd became a...

Send us Fan Mail Staff Chef at All Things BBQ - www.atbbq.com - Jackson is widely known for his videos at the All Things BBQ YouTube Channel.  A culinary institute trained chef, Chef Tom always brings it to the recipes he consistently develops and unveils on YouTube. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

Send us Fan Mail Richard Fergola, of Fergolicious BBQ, has a knack for sharing the art & science of barbecue. His expert knowledge is backed by numerous awards within the KCBS competition circuit as well as appearances on television shows like Destination America’s "BBQ Pitmasters" and Food Network’s "Chopped Grillmasters."   In addition to cooking award-winning barbecue, h...

Send us Fan Mail Let's talk turkey! Just in time for Thanksgiving, how to prepare your turkey for the holiday table.   In the last 20 years Ray Lampe, a.k.a. "DR. BBQ",  has become a legend in the BBQ community, dominating the BBQ competition circuit by winning dozens of competitions all across the country. He is one of the country's leading authorities on BBQ, grilling and tai...

Send us Fan Mail A monster year for Brad Leighninger. Winning pork at Memphis in May, winning the Jack Daniels Invitational, and now back to back KCBS Team of the Year Championships (which he has won 3 out of the last 4 years). All of that while running 4 restaurants. As was mentioned in the program, he may very well be the Tom Brady of BBQ. His team, Gettin' Basted, has finished no less than...

Send us Fan Mail Megan Day (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, and the Cooking Channel – just to name a few. Since its founding in 2008, Burnt Finger BBQ has racked up countless awards on the competition barbecue cir...

Send us Fan Mail KELLY WERTZ is back, this time talking about the new KCBS Steak Championship Series coming up next year and how to get that steak perfect.  "4 Legs Up BBQ" is one of the most successful BBQ teams on the Professional BBQ competition circuit in the last several years. A one-man team, Kelly Wertz has distinguished himself with the following: • BBQ World Champion - having wo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 & Rodeo BBQ Cook-Off, the 3rd largest sanctioned cook off in the United States where over 220 teams competed. He has won well over 80 Grand Champions an...

Send us Fan Mail Artist STRETCH Rumaner (Sculpture/Design/Food) is completely innovative and original, as his appearance on BBQ Pitmasters proved. A frequent guest of Guy Fieri, 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 American Royal for...

Send us Fan Mail Competitive BBQer and restaurateur Joe Pearce is our guest.  Joe has been featured on TV in BBQ Pitmasters and teamed up with Bobby Flay on the Food Network to compete for the crown of “Master of ‘Cue”.  But probably his biggest achievement was opening Slap’s barbecue joint in BBQ heavy Kansas City and recently being proclaimed best BBQ place in Kansas by Food & Wine Magazine....

Send us Fan Mail How do you go from getting talked into your first competition to becoming Grand Champion of the The American Royal in just 5 short years? Winner Bill Heyen (pronounced HINE) from Illinois explains what it took for HHH BBQ to get to the main stage and wear the crown. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

Send us Fan Mail A native of Kansas City, Ryan Cooper has been traveling across the country exploring the best barbecue for years and regularly writes about various news, events, restaurants, products, and trends in his publication as well as the Kansas City Barbeque Society’s publication, The Bullsheet. He is the creator of the BBQ Tourist brand and co-founder of The Smoke Sheet BBQ Newsletter, a...

Send us Fan Mail Andy has been part of the competition BBQ world for over 23 years. As a second generation competitive cook, Smoke on Wheels was born in 1996 to expand his calendar to cook more events. Andy has hundreds of awards; Including over 25 Grand Champion titles, 2 US National Chest to Chest Brisket Invitational Titles, 2 World Pork Champion Titles, including the Jack Daniels World Invitat...

Send us Fan Mail THIS WEEK'S GUEST, KELLY WERTZ, will be talking about making your own sausage to grill and smoke. "4 Legs Up BBQ" is one of the most successful BBQ teams on the Professional BBQ competition circuit in the last several years. A one-man team, Kelly Wertz has distinguished himself with the following: • BBQ World Champion - having won the Jack Daniels World Invitational...

Send us Fan Mail The “epitome of consistency” is exactly who our guest is from week to week on the KCBS competition circuit. Brad Leighninger is the head pitmaster for the championship winning Gettin’ Basted Competition BBQ Team. This team has finished no less than 7th place in the last 6 consecutive KCBS Team of the Year standings, winning it out right 2 of those years (there are literally thousa...

Send us Fan Mail If barbecue had a Mount Rushmore, it's no exaggeration to say this guy would be on it! Tuffy Stone is an icon to even the most experienced pitmaster.  His legendary precision and obsession with the science of smoke make him one of the most influential people in barbecue. It also made him 5 World Championships.  Maybe we should hear what the gentleman has to say. Support the s...

Send us Fan Mail Over the years, guest Heath Riles has not only established himself as a master of the cooking styles of both of the two principle sponsoring bodies in the industry – the Memphis BBQ Network (MBN) and the Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS) – but also a master of the winning style favored by the Steak Cook-Off Association (SCA).  To illustrate that point, in 2015 Heath won twelve Grand...

Send us Fan Mail Jones Bar-B-Q restaurant is one of those iconic Kansas City BBQ joints that you don’t hear enough about.  For owners/sisters Deborah “Little” and Mary “Shorty” Jones, barbecue is a way of life.  When they were little girls, their father, Leavy B. Jones Sr. set them up on milk crates to look over the pit at the very first Jones Bar-B-Q restaurant.  They have continued making histor...

Send us Fan Mail John Atwell, owner and pitmaster of Jousting Pigs BBQ in historic Liberty, MO began his transition from accountant to professional BBQ'er with a visit to Austin, TX and hitting the best they had to offer.  “I bought an ugly drum smoker, cooked a pork butt and some ribs in the backyard one day,” he says. “I had a friend come over and try it. He liked it. Next thing you know, h...

Send us Fan Mail The heart of Plowboys BBQ is competition-style barbecue. It began in 2001 when Todd Johns and his brother-in-law, Randy Hinck, started Pork Pullin Plowboys, their competition team. For the next six years, Todd and Randy would travel all over the country, participating in competitions, perfecting their craft and learning what makes truly great barbecue. Along the way Todd became a...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever eaten at a really good BBQ restaurant then this week’s guest has already had a profound effect on you.  David Knight is the President and founder of Ole Hickory Pits, a leading manufacturer of commercial (restaurant) barbecue smoker ovens, sold worldwide. With experience earned from his early days in the family restaurant and knowledge gained from pit design, David...

Send us Fan Mail This Week’s Guest – Mike Trump of Oakridge BBQ Oakridge BBQ Rubs have been involved with receiving over 8,400 Top Ten competition awards, more than any other brand in the history of competition BBQ.  Mike and Dan get into how these rubs come together.  Dan and Dave also talk about getting the most out of grilling vegetables this summer. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

Send us Fan Mail Darian (KOSMO) Kozz got involved in competitive BBQing the same way thousands of other folks across America do. Kozz started cooking in the backyard with neighbors, friends, and was quickly hooked.  Over the past decade and a half Darian’s business Kosmo’s Q has slowly transformed from backyard griller into a competitive BBQ empire that sells their special brand of rubs, injection...

Send us Fan Mail Travis Clark's "Clark Crew BBQ" has won over 700 Top-10 awards in competition barbecue, culminating with being crowned the Grand Champion of the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational in 2019. The Jack Daniel’s Invitational is one of the most prestigious BBQ competitions in the world. All of this while cooking on some of the biggest stages against some of the...