The BBQ Central Show

Episode 274 Taking you back to 9/6/2006 – The first EVER podcast….EVER…not live show…but first ever production ever made as it relates to my time in the live-fire industry. Is it great…YES!!  It is greatly bad! It’s really bad…especially as you compare it to the last 10 years of doing shows…however…this was back in a time when NO ONE knew about podcasting…most people still don’t grasp what podcast...

Jeff Thiessen sat down with me when I was at the HPBExpo a few weeks back and we talked about the history of Dansons , when they got into the pellet cooker market and how they have evolved over the years of being in business. If you aren’t familiar with the name “Dansons” you would be familiar with some of their brands, namely, Pit Boss and Louisiana Grills just to name two. Dansons has an extensi...

(March 21, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking off the 2nd hour is Wes Wright from Cookoutnews.com 10:35pm – Closing the show tonight is quarterly guest and editor of  Texas Monthly , Daniel Vaughn! There is plenty to talk about tonight, including, where this whole pickles, onions and white bread garnish thing actually came from. You see it happen in almost all the BBQ joints in Texas, but, it has...

If I told you that the Blackstone Griddle wasn’t necessarily at the top of the “To-Do” list for Roger Dahle, would you believe me? While he really loved the idea, and he did want to make the product and bring it to market, it took about 10 years for it to actually happen. This interview was captured at the 2023 HPBExpo in Louisville, KY. Listen to Roger’s story and how this segment leader came to...

(March 21, 2023 – Hour One) 9:14 & 9:35pm – Kicking off the 3rd week of March is one of the country’s foremost authorities on  Koji , Jeremy Umansky (Co-owner of  Larder Delicatessen ). Meathead brought up Koji a few months ago and there was a renewed interest from the audience on how it all works and what applications it can be used on. Jeremy will give us the background on Koji, where it com...

Episode 273 Taking you back to 3/22/2011 – Tom Gellert from a team called Ed-Que-Cators (Educators). The idea of this segment was having Tom do a review of cooking classes he had taken over the years (for example: The BBQ Guru, Pellet Envy, I Smell Smoke, Swamp Boys). It is important to remember that, back in 2011, one of the biggest things going on the competition circuit was the associated “cook...

(March 14, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking off the 2nd hour is the Cowboy Cook himself,  Kent Rollins ! Kent has a new book that is getting ready to hit the market nd there is an associated book tour that is happening soon as well. We will talk about the new book, what he likes about writing, what you can expect to see in the pages and when the tour might roll by your house! We will also talk t...

(March 14, 2023 – Hour one) 9:14 – Kicking off the 2nd Tuesday of the month, as he usually does, is Meathead from  Amazingribs.com . However, tonight we are going to switch it up a bit and talk about a subject he casually brought up in January, which is Artificial Intelligence (ex. ChatGPT). How will this potentially impact those of you have have website that depend on traffic generated by these s...

Episode 272 Taking you back to 3/8/2011 – In this Best Moments show, we journey back to a time in the show where I did something at the end of each show called “The 4th Segment Free For All”. This segment saw prizes donated to the show by vendors and then given to listers as long as they were able to answer questions about the show that evening. So, of course, you had to be on the livestream in or...

(March 7, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – After sitting out a month due to book writing pressures,  Sam The Cooking Guy  makes his triumphant return to the show. We could easily go an hour (but we won’t) so I HOPE to discuss his getting into the rub market, if he thought that he would ever be a “products” person, what does he really think of the new Traeger products he got his hands on, some of his rec...

(March 7, 2023 – Hour One) 9:14 – Leading off the last month in Q1 of 2023, our pal and the creator of  How To BBQ Right , Malcom Reed. Tonight we will discuss his most recent trip to Jamaica and see what food/recipe inspirations he brought back with him. We will also talk about some trends in our industry and we might talk a bit about getting into the rub and sauce business. 9:35 pm – After Malco...

Episode 271 Taking you back to 3/8/2011 – In this Best Moments show we replay a portion of the first conversation I ever had with one, Craig Sharry who is the owner of Texas Pepper Jelly . In 2011, Craig had already been in the TPJ business and in the competition scene pretty heavily…but he had started this whole business about 5 years earlier. Over the years, Craig became quite a fierce and respe...

(February 28, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm & 10:35pm – Kicking of the the 2nd hour are the world renowned “Embedded Correspondents” Tonight we launch the segment, as we always do, with a new round of 100% Assurity Questions! However, instead of pulling in a real human to take part in the questions alongside the EC’s, we turn to the immensely popular “Chat GPT” machine and see what it thinks! We wi...

(February 28, 2023 – Hour One) 9:14 – Leading off the show tonight is a man who thinks “Every Day Is A Good Day”, iconic pitmaster,  Rodney Scott ! Last time Rodney was on, back at the end of 2020, we talked about his background in BBQ and the family business. Tonight, we talk about the book he released in 2021, the restaurants he now has and a new venture he is announcing tonight along with a fam...

Episode 270 Taking you back to 3/6/2018 – This is something that I totally forgot about until I previewed this file a few weeks ago. Does anyone else remember when KFC was pushing their gravy…as in…this stuff is good enough to drink…I think they were actually telling people to just grab gravy and use it in various ways…one way was to make a gravy cocktail…no joke! Well, in successive weeks there w...

(February 21, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking of the the 2nd hour is the owner and managing partner of the  NBBQA , Kell Phelps. As you might recall, the big annual conference for this organization took place this past weekend, so I wanted to have Kell come back on a give us the recap and how he thought it came off a few days after the event ended. I saw quite a bit of posting on it through var...

(February 21, 2023 – Hour One) 9:14 – Leading off the show tonight is the creator of  Another Pint Please  website (and related internet properties), Mike Lang. As you might recall, Mike and I worked an event here in Northeast Ohio last September and his segments always do well with the audience, so I wanted to bring him in more often in 2023 and we start that tonight! We will cover some of the ne...

Episode 269 Taking you back to 2/2/2013 – Being featured this time around is one of the best competition BBQ’ers to every light a fire…especially if you’re talking about FBA events…he’s definitely on the short list of BEST EVER in that sanctioning body.  He also got into the sauce business and has great success there…of course I am talking about the pitmaster of “Swamp Boys BBQ Team” Rob, “Rub” Ba...

(February 14, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking of the the 2nd hour is friend of the show and very successful rub, sauce, injection and soak maker, Kosmo from  Kosmo’s Q ! Last time Kosmo was on we talked about how much money it would take for him to sell the company and we also talked about the business coming out of the pandemic craze. We will get an update on business, if there’s any new offer...

(February 14, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14 – Leading off the show tonight is our monthly guest and creator of  Amazingribs.com , Meathead. Tonight, the topic of discussion is the difference between “drip pans and water pans”. Before that, or after that, we will talk about the production of his 2nd book and how that’s going. As many of you know, I have been extremely critical of this book and if it is act...

Episode 268 Taking you back to 2/27/2018 – In this episode, a long time friend of the show and one of the pellet cooker pioneers, Ed “Fast Eddy” Maurin is featured in this week’s show and we discuss a bit of his passion for Baja racing…we also talked about where the pellet cooker market was sitting back then and where it was poised to go. Eddy also talks about the best features of cooking with pel...

(February 7, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Last week it was our pal Doug Scheiding from Rogue Cookers talking about the 2023 San Antonio BBQ Cook-Off. This week we talk to the team that won the whole thing, Bill Purvis from  Chicken Fried BBQ . Bill will give us the run down of that weekend and what it was like to win it. He was very close last year amid some scoring controversy, so we will see what...

(February 7, 2023 – Hour One) 9:14 – Leading off the show tonight is our monthly guest and creator of the “ How To BBQ Right ” brand, Malcom Reed. Tonight, Malcom and I will be addressing a number of topics, not the least of which is getting you ready for the final NFL game of the season. Kansas City is a place known for their great BBQ. Philly is a place known for their cheesesteaks. Malcom and I...

Episode 267 Taking you back to 2/7/2008 –  I’m not sure how much I need to explain this one other than, it’s the first live show EVER! I apologize in advance…but it was a LNG time ago and I had very little idea of what production value was! Ready to make a “BEST OF” show all your own?? Email Jon Solberg and let him know what you would like to hear on a future episode! As always, thank you for list...

(January 31, 2023 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Pulling a back to back, the longest running Embedded Correspondent from Texas (Doug Scheiding) joins me to talk about this past weekend’s San Antonio BBQ Cook-Off. This event continues to grow and has aspirations of becoming a Houston BBQ Cook-Off someday and it might be sooner than later.  Rogue Cookers  took 14th overall on the weekend with a handful of to...