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Send us Fan Mail Thanksgiving is here so we grabbed back to back KCBS Turkey Smoke Team of the Year leader, Chiles Cridlin, to talk about doing that turkey right for the holidays.  Chiles is the Pit Master of "Wolf's Revenge BBQ" and is cooking with a smoker that he designed and built himself, taking it across the country on the KCBS circuit to see how his recipes and skills rank ag...

Send us Fan Mail Some outside the box Thanksgiving ideas as host Andy Groneman reminisces with the 2011 Junior World BBQ Champion, his daughter, Kaylin Groneman. You might be surprised at what comes up when they list their favorite Thanksgiving meals. Creativity is in no shortage with this family. Support the show www.bbqradionetwork.com

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 Sterling Smith is 2022 World Barbecue Champion at the World Food Championships, 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 in major competitions including the Jack...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest this week made an in-person studio visit all the way from Australia. Brett Robinson is well known in Melbourne as one of the original adapters of U.S. style BBQ and led the charge for teaching and it becoming so popular in Australia. He's going to let us in on some flavor profiles for lamb and we get an explanation of why it is more popular there (because they are d...

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 "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 A...

Send us Fan Mail Frank Cox, known as “The BBQ Pit Engineer”™️ has been building BBQ Smokers as a hobby and business for over 13 years. Armed with a background in the Refrigeration, HVAC, and Food Equipment Industry for 28 years, he has made his living with temperature control, fluid dynamics (liquid and vapor), and heat transfer in many applications in the real world. His passion, SmokerBuilder, w...

Send us Fan Mail AARON STOFFER ON GETTING PERFECTLY DONE RIBS, PLUS "A TON OF SECRETS" Aaron Stoffer of THE REAL Man Meat BBQ is gaining a name for himself, not only as a competitor on the BBQ circuit, but for his line of rubs and sauces as well. Aaron wanted to talk about how to get perfectly done ribs every time, and as Todd said in the show, “He’s giving away a ton of secrets!” Suppor...

Send us Fan Mail Megan Day has 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, and the Cooking Channe...

Send us Fan Mail MAKING A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BURGER Dave Elliott is originally from Minneapolis, he later moved to Kansas City where he found his love of bbq and outdoor cooking. Although he specializes in outdoor cooking, he has competed in the Dessert, Pasta, Burger and Steak categories at the prestigious World Food Championships.  In 2013, his team finished 2nd in Dessert and then went on to be...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest, Meathead Goldwyn, BBQ Hall of Fame inductee & author of "Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", is recognized as one of the leading authorities on BBQ.  His website, www. AmazingRibs.com , is probably the most popular BBQ website on the internet.  What is indisputable is the fact Forbes calls it the "BEST".  He will d...

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