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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...

Send us Fan Mail Ryan Cooper is the founder of BBQ Tourist and co-founder of The Smoke Sheet  BBQ Newsletter , based in Omaha, Nebraska. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, for the last several years he has been traveling throughout the country, seeking to experience and understand barbecue in all of its many forms. He regularly covers barbecue news, events, restaurants, products, and trends on...

Send us Fan Mail After 34 years of running meat markets, sausage counters, selling wholesale, and running a custom meat processing plant, David Bouska started cooking in his local BBQ competitions. Since then, David has won hundreds of competitions INCLUDING the World Champion BBQ Pitmaster of 2012, followed by a second World Championship in 2018. David appeared on season 4 & 5 of the hit TV r...

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 a...

Send us Fan Mail Mitchell Schwartz played in the NFL for 9 seasons on the offensive line and earned 4 Pro Bowl nods and a Super Bowl ring with the Kansas City Chiefs. Mitch is also known for his prowess in the kitchen and behind the grill and has thousands of followers on Instagram, as well as www.mitchinthekitch.blog Guest co-host Todd Johns will be joining Mitch to talk about getting ready with...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to brining and injections, Kosmo is THE guy we talk to. 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 co...

Send us Fan Mail Amy Mills is considered a complete authority on barbecue and the business that surrounds it.  She’s a featured judge on various barbecue shows such as Food Network’s BBQ Brawl , Firemasters , CHOPPED , Best in Smoke , Kingsford Invitational , and Smoked , as well as co-star of the Mills Family’s own digital series, Peace, Love, and Barbecue . Co-authored with her dad, BBQ Hall of...

Send us Fan Mail Grills, Smokers and Corn Roasters – OH MY! Holstein MFG has an incredible line of products that includes all of these and more. Our guest (and show sponsor), Darrin Schmidt, grew up in the business and has spent 40+ years designing and building quality grills and smokers for everyone from the backyarder to the state fair, and even NASCAR. Holstein Manufacturing was founded with th...

Send us Fan Mail Meat tenderness is an art form based in a lot of science. 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...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest, Meathead Goldwyn, was inducted into the BBQ Hall of Fame this last September at The American Royal.  Author of "Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", Mr. Goldwyn 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 indisputab...

Send us Fan Mail Blane Hunter (a.k.a. Mr. Porky Butts) grew up barbecuing in south Texas from a very young age. He was tending fires and checking temps as soon as he could help with his dad’s passion for the magic that happens in the world of “low and slow” pit smoking. With over 27 years of experience combined with a Culinary education from Johnson and Wales and FVTC culinary schools Blane starte...

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...

Send us Fan Mail In 2009, Craig Verhage earned his nickname, The BBQ Ninja, because of his unique style which consists of a bandana, sunglasses and his flamethrower. Craig teaches cooking classes that feature wild game he hunts and harvests, including alligator, duck and venison. Cooking alligator using his flamethrower has become his calling card. Craig is going to share with us how to get the mo...

Send us Fan Mail Myron Mixon just came out with a new line of pellet smokers produced by Smokin' Brothers. He tells us why he chose them and the features other manufacturers are missing. After more than thirty years of winning contests for his smoked hogs, briskets, ribs, and chickens, Myron knows a whole lot about barbecue. So what does the “winningest man in barbecue” know about living a he...