The Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast

I'm not going to lie - this is a total fanboy episode for me. Mark Lambert is a goliath in the BBQ world. Firstly, he's a ridiculously successful competition BBQ pitmaster. He's a 6 time World Champion, 4 time Memphis in May World Champion, and 2017 American Royal World Champion in Ribs. He's also the founder of the powerhouse rub, sauce and distributing brand Sweet Swine O' Mine. You know who I'm...

The Houston World's Bar-B-Que Contest in Texas is quite possibly the most highly contentested BBQ competition in the world. And our very own Grant Coleman from the Smooth and Smoakey Salad Dodgers has represented Australia there not once, not twice, but three times! Competing as Manning Valley Natural Smokers, Grant and his team took it to the world, going up against a field of 250 other teams fro...

There isn't a butcher in Australia who knows more about the butchery industry than Glenn Dumbrell from Char Char Char in Melbourne. He has several decades experience in butchering meat, and for the last ten years has been running a butcher shop of his own, Char Char Char. He's seen all the market shifts and changes, has been a huge part of Butcher Wars at Meatstock, and was a part of the Meatstock...

Joey Machado is something of a legend in the BBQ industry in the United States, a marketing guru, if you will. He's known as the man who built B&B Charcoal into the powerhouse that it is today, and is now working with Blues Hog BBQ and Gateway Drum Smokers, legends in their own right! I first met Joey at the World's BBQ Championships in Houston, and really got to know him at the 2019 NBBQA Annual...

Chay Adams from Smokey Days BBQ is one happy pitmaster. He's just won his first Grand Champion prize at the recent Smokefest Gold Coast BBQ Competition, using an offset smoker that he built himself. Yes, you read that right - not only does this man know how to cook a brisket, he also knows how to build an offset smoker! With a background in metal fabrication, Chay Adams is a man who has become obs...

Lukas Armstrong is back! And he's better than ever. Now sporting the new competition bbq team moniker of The Jacks Creek BBQ Team, Lukas is wasting no time in 2021, taking full advantage of all border openings and lockdown restrictions to get to as many competitions as possible to make a play for the top position in this year's competition BBQ circuit in Australia.  Just in case there are some of...

Bill Dumas is a living legend of Texas BBQ. Currently with Brotherton's Black Iron BBQ in Austin Texas, known for having some of the best bbq in the world, Bill is an old-school pitmaster who isn't afraid of hard work. And what he's working on at the moment isn't just creating perfect American barbecue: he's working on creating the perfect Texas Sausage. In fact, he's more obsessed with his sausag...

Ghost Kitchens - it sounds like a great name for a horror movie, but they could just be the future of BBQ. Shawn P. Walchef, founder of iconic California BBQ joint Cali Comfort BBQ is our guest on this incredible episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast.  A serial entrepreneur, Shawn also happens to be one of the best BBQ Pitmasters not just in San Diego, but on the West Coast, and his b...

He likes them big. He likes them chunky. Offset smokers, that is. Specifically, traditional Texas BBQ offset smokers. In this Ep of the show, we're joined by Craig Wegert, head pit builder at Bullockhead Creek Smokers. And man, does this guy sure know how to build an offset smoker!  Craig has an undeniable passion for BBQ. And as an ex-olympic athlete, once he finds a passion, he goes all in. His...

This is the second part of our two episode special from the incredible Meat in the Dilly BBQ Festival. In our previous BBQ Podcast episode we brought you our fantastic 'After Dark Special'. Here, we take you through the Festival, minute by minute over both days, so you can experience the festival as if you were there. We've got a tonne of great information here for you from competitors, promoters...

What do you get when you cross three competitive BBQ Pitmasters, one overly enthusiastic podcaster, and several beverages in the middle of the night on the eve of a BBQ Competition?  I'm very excited to be able to announce that it's finally time for another After Dark Special! It has been a year and a half since I've been able to do one of these episodes here at the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Pod...

There are two questions that many of us in the BBQ want to know the answers to: 1. How to Build a YouTube Channel and 2. How to Make Money on YouTube. Fortunately for all of us at home, Aaron Palmer from Low n Slow Basics has got us covered. This is essential viewing for anybody with a BBQ business who is looking to attract more customers via social media.  Aaron has been in the meat industry his...

Chad Griffin is without a doubt the quintessential Aussie. He loves his family. Loves BBQ. Loves a cold beer. And he loves helping his mates. In fact, he's got a reputation for helping out his mates in the BBQ industry, be it in BBQ catering or competition BBQ. I've personally seen this guy helping out his mates as far north as Brisbane and as far south as Melbourne. And every time I've seen him,...

It's that time! Our BBQ Podcast, the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast has hit 150 Episodes! We've travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres, been to over 100 BBQ festivals and competitions and interviewed over 300 people in every single aspect of the barbecue industry. Oh, and we might have eaten an unknown number of kilos of smoked brisket, and pulled pork, and perhaps a beer or two along...

BBQ is all about Family. Always has been, always will be. But do you know what's better than sharing a Family BBQ? Starting a Family BBQ Business. In the case of Todd Hill from Jackalope Trading Co, it's a Family BBQ Rub Business. And when it comes to small business ideas, isn't that the best kind?  In all seriousness, Jackalope Trading Co spice rubs are some of our favourite BBQ rubs here at Smok...

Brendan Reisima from The Smoking Meathouse is the current #1 BBQ Pitmaster in New Zealand, having won Team of the Year in the NZ Barbecue Alliance. In quite a short amount of time he has gone from just starting out in competition BBQ to becoming one of the best BBQ Pitmasters in the country, having represented NZ in Texas and Australia.  Whereas many pitmasters are all about low'n'slow BBQ, Brenda...

BBQ Catering is a very tempting prospect to many of us in the barbecue world. The idea of being able to leave your job and spend your time making fat stacks of brisket cash in your very own food truck is a sweet, sweet fantasy. But, is it really all it's cracked up to be?  My guest in this Ep is Andrew Donn-Patterson (ADP to his friends) from Black Iron Smokers and BBQ, one of Australia's best BBQ...

Paul Reitmier of Silver Creek Smokers is about as close to Aussie BBQ Royalty as it gets. He built his first standard flow smoker, an offset smoker of course, in 2005, almost a full decade before the Australasian Barbecue Alliance was created, and we have the scene we have today. Inspired by traditional Texas style offset smokers, his style of bbq smoker trailer is considered by many BBQ pitmaster...

A change is as good as a holiday, and in this episode, we head over to New Zealand to talk all thing bbq with Alex Lawson, cohost of the Barbecue Base Podcast. Not only is Alex a BBQ guru and host of a great BBQ podcast, he is also the Pit Boss of the competition bbq team Burnt Beginnings BBQ.  With a solid twenty year career in marketing and advertising under his belt, he's now focussing his atte...

How to Create a Low n Slow BBQ Masterclass is a common question that many BBQers are asking themselves these days. It's one of the ways that a competition BBQ team can raise funds to help them get to big events such as the Jack Daniels' World Championship and the American Royal World Series of Barbecue at the Kansas Speedway. Fortunately for us, Big Willy from Badass BBQ has pioneered the way and...

In honour of International Women's Day, it is our pleasure to welcome back great friend of the show Julie-ann Tindall-Davies from JAGRD WoodFired in Western Australia. Jules shares her exciting news - their competition BBQ team 'The Smokin' Hot JAGRD Edge' has just won the 'KCBS International Brisket Team of the Year' award for 2020! This is a tremendous achievement for the husband and wife Pitmas...

In this episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast, we're chatting with Dave Kenyon from Black Glove BBQ and Matt Redman from Primal Iron BBQ, the Reserve Grand Champion and Grand Champion winners of the Kondari BBQ Festival respectively.  We're really lucky in this episode to have these incredible pitmasters with us. Between them, they took at prizes in smoked brisket, bbq ribs, barbeque...

Time, Temp & Feel are the three tenets of real low'n'slow barbecue. If you can master these three things, there's no stopping you. Booma, from Booma's BBQ has mastered these three things and his results speak for themselves. Booma has been team captain of the hugely successful Full Metal Kettle competition BBQ team. He's created a few hybrid teams for special events which have also been successful...

The Steak Cookoff Association is taking the world by storm, and right at the storm front are Shane & Chloe from Forrest Lump BBQ. They have absolutely dominated the steak category, winning a Golden Ticket to compete at the SCA World Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. However, their true talent clearly shows in the ancillary categories. In fact, they won the points chase for Australia for 2020 in...

If you had a catastrophic, life-changing accident involving a BBQ, I'd wager that you'd never want to go near a barbecue ever again. But not Cam.  Cam House, from Cam's Q suffered a huge accident in 2019 when a fully loaded Weber Kettle grill fell on him, resulting in 3rd degree burns to his arm and hand. The resulting surgeries, skin grafts and complications have taken their toll on his and his p...