The BBQ Central Show

(June 7, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14pm – Welcome to June and to the beginning of the 2nd half of the year! Malcom Reed isn’t able to make it this month because of sporting engagements, however, Mark Williams from Swine Life BBQ will be filling and we will recap the success the Killer Hogs BBQ team had at Memphis in May. Mark also released a new recipe on “No-Flip Burgers” that we will also cover! 9:35pm...

Episode 231 Taking you back to 6/5/2012 – This week we feature an unusual segment of me talking over some various video clips that I found entertaining back in this time. First up is a clip of Mario Batalli taking a dump on celebrities that criticized his food when he was on Iron Chef . Then, one of my all time favorite YouTube clips ever, Jones BBQ and Foot Massage ” and rounding it out was a cla...

(May 31, 2022 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking off the 2nd hour is, perhaps, the most interviewed person over the history of the show. He is an accomplished competition pitmaster, author, TV show guest, pitchman, brand ambassador, BBQ Hall of Fame’er and BBQ Central Show Guest Hall of Fame’er,  Dr. BBQ Ray Lampe ! Last week the BBQ Hall of Fame was announced and we will break down who got in and why...

(May 31, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14pm – Perhaps one of my favorite “new” guest finds in the past 12 months is the guy who leads the show tonight, Oklahoma  Joe Davidson ! Joe and I have had a great first 2 interviews tracking his rise in the live-fire industry ultimately leading to his induction into the BBQ Hall of Fame a few years ago. Tonight we talk about the explosions of pellet cookers in the mar...

Episode 230 Taking you back to 5/29/2012 – This week we feature show favorite Ray Lampe ( Dr. BBQ )…at this time, we were talking about his new book “Slow Fire – Beginners Guide to BBQ” and we touched on who wrote the foreword of that book (Semi-Famous Dave Anderson) and how that came to be.  We spend the rest of the time talking about this book’s vision and his book writing life as well. Ready to...

(May 24, 2022 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking off the 2nd hour is the monthly visit from The Embedded Correspondents! Keeping with the Hall of Fame theme for the evening, Doug, Jon, Rusty and I will come up with the (4) people we think “should” be voted in before the official announcement the following day at 3pm Eastern. As time allows, we will also tackle some 100% Assurity picks to end the segmen...

Be sure to join me at 3pm Eastern  today  as I welcome back Emily Park from The American Royal as we reveal the OFFICAL list of (4) people who will make up this year’s BBQ Hall of Fame. We will also announce the (3) inductees to the “Legacy” portion of the hall and we will also reveal the first ever “Impact Award”. Who will make up the class of 2022?? Who do YOU think will get in? Be sure to tune...

(May 24, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14pm – We missed them last week in the 2nd hour but they have graciously rescheduled for the opening interview segment tonight! Susie and Todd Bulloch from  Hey Grill Hey  join me for their quarterly visit and we will talk about some new products they have coming out, the re-launch of their “Grill Squad”, if they made it to Memphis in May this year and who they would pu...

Episode 229 From 5/17/2011- This week we feature Fred Grose…founder of Mojobricks.  Are you one that has tried Mojobricks before…a very popular smoking wood product.  Fred does have a tie here to Bomb City, USA as well…in this interview we got some background on Fred and how he got into the “wood smoke” business…and the, of course, why his products were different…and are still different, than anyt...

(May 17, 2022 – Hour 2) 10:14pm – Kicking off the 2nd hour is 2nd time guest and BBQ/food writer for the  San Antonio Express-News , Chuck Blount. Tonight, Chuck and I will talk about how the all mighty hamburger is making its way into more and more traditional BBQ restaurants and why that trend is growing. We will also discuss how that trend will affect how he (and other food reviewers) evaluate...

(May 17, 2022 – Hour 1) 9:14pm – Memphis in May happened this past weekend and one of my lead guests showed on me last week. Did the karma work in reverse for him and the team? Not so much… Tim Scheer  and  Brad Leighninger  join me to talk about their world championship cook and how Tim has single handedly reversed how “The Show Karma” might apply to pitmasters going forward. 9:35pm – Continuing...

May 4th, 2022 – Rebecca King, ak a The Bad Jew , made a return back to her original home in Cleveland, Ohio. The past few years, Rebecca has been hard at work getting The Bad Jew going out in her new home in LA and she has had great success introducing her “Porkstrami” to the west coast folks…and anyone she runs into along the way. On this particular day, we met up for a quick lunch at my pal Jere...

Episode 228 From 5/20/2011 – being featured this week is a guy named Doug Killilea, who at the time, was a backyard BBQ enthusiast and a guy who actually came to the BBQ Central Show Studio and laid it down in person! I am not sure where Doug is today, but I hope he is doing well and I hope he is still letting the smoke roll! Ready to make a “BEST OF” show all your own?? Email Jon Solberg and let...

(May 10, 2022 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Kicking off the 2nd hour is a good friend of this show and one of the winningest pitmasters on the KCBS circuit over the past decade, Tim Scheer from Shake N Bake BBQ. This coming weekend, Tim and Brad Leighninger rejoin forces as “ Blues Hog ” competition team to attempt to snatch back to back world titles but this time in whole hog. We will talk to Tim on why...

(Aired Live On May 11, 2022) I welcomed back Emily Park from The American Royal as we revealed the list of 9 finalists for this year’s BBQ Hall of Fame! This is an exclusive announcement that only the BBQ Central Show will bring you before any else knows about it.

(May 10, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14pm – Grinding through the 2nd week in May and the weather here in Cleveland has finally come up and added a little sun and warmth! Let’s build on that momentum and talk to  Meathead  tonight about combustion as we rekindle our “BBQ Science with Meathead” talks that we had been running the beginning of the year. I might also ask him about the new book and the BBQ Hall...

Episode 227 From 5/26/2015 – being featured this week is one of the pitmasters of The Pork Brothers Competition Team – Mike Fritz!  He and his 2 other team members were running the rib burner circuit back then…the rib circuit is much different than a KCBS, FBA, SLBBQ, the Texas sanctioning bodies or most any competition BBQ sanctioning body really…if you ever have the “rib burn-off” events in your...

(May 3, 2022 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Making a return trip this week is the longest running Embedded Correspondent for The BBQ Central Show, Doug Scheiding from  Rogue Cookers . Tonight we talk about his consistent, and now prolific, growth on the social media platform Instagram. Doug has over 20,000 followers right now and tonight we talk all about how he got there and what the best practices have b...

(May 3, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14pm – Welcome to May! We begin this month, as we do each month, with a visit from our pal Malcom Reed from  How To BBQ Right . Tonight we talk all about ribs! This topic will conclude out 4 month effort in covering the 4 major BBQ meats for the backyard cook. 9:35pm – After we talk all about the ribs stuff, Malcom and I will also talk about the really big BBQ competitio...

Episode 226 From 5/3/2011 – This week we feature Chris Hart from the I-que BBQ team…We work through a bit of technical issues right up front, which you will hear…but the big topic of the segment was Chris being a part of a TV show called “Best In Smoke” that was on The Food Network.  Chris explained how the show was going to happen and it was taking place over a 4 episode run…back in 2011 BBQ and...

Episode 215 Taking you back to February 2017 – Following up on his appearance last week, Ray Lampe (Dr. BBQ ) is the feature on this week’s Best Moments show.  This particular show, I visited with Ray who was, at the time, 3 months or so into opening the Dr. BBQ restaurant and what it had been like for everyone involved.  If you remember, we did a number of segments leading into the actually openi...

(February 8, 2022 – Hour Two) 10:14pm & 10:35pm – Leading off the 2nd hour is one of the original founders of ChefSteps, the book “Modernist Cuisine” and now one of the creators of a new wireless thermometer offering from the company  Combustion, Inc ., Chris Young joins me for the first time! Chris is incredibly accomplished in science and food and he is passionate about applying both to his...

(February 8, 2022 – Hour One) 9:14pm & 9:35pm – Leading off the first hour and carrying the balance of it is first time guest and CEO of  Traeger Grills , Jeremy Andrus. This has been an interview I have been chasing for some time now, especially since the company went public last summer, and thanks to the help from my Texas EC, Doug Scheiding, it comes to fruition tonight! Jeremy will be join...

Episode 214 Taking you back to 2017 – Clarence Joseph of Momma and Poppa Joe’s BBQ joined me.  This time of year brings the San Antonio Rodeo and BBQ Cook Off.  Back in 2016, CJ won that event and, during this visit, I had him back on to talk about his chances of going back to back GC at that event…we also talked about what it was like for him to teach competition BBQ classes…and then have his stu...

(February 1, 2022 – Hour Two) 10:14pm – Leading off the 2nd hour is  YouTube sensation , cookbook author and regional celebrity to Southern California with 15 Emmy’s to his credit, Sam  The Cooking Guy . Tonight we will lead off the segment by playing “What Does Sam Like Best” and the winner will receive something really neat! After the game, Sam and I will talk about the upcoming release of his n...