The Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast

Ever wondered what it's like to be a BBQ competitor? Can you remember what your first ever competition was like? In this bonus episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast I interview Michael Trajkovic from Butchers Axe BBQ before, during and after their first ever BBQ competition. Now this wasn't just any BBQ competition. This was Meatstock Melbourne, one of the biggest, most popular festivals...

This very exciting bonus episode is an opportunity to either relive or live vicariously through me, the recent Melbourne Meatstock festival. I was very lucky to be able to head south to Melbourne to the first Meatstock festival. It was the largest BBQ competition in Victoria's history and it was a weekend full of amazing surprises. This episode is a compilation of many mini-interviews I did over t...

This very exciting bonus episode is a recording of the Q&A session that I hosted live at the BBQ & Beer Roadshow 2017. Please be sure to Subscribe to the Podcast and leave a Review to spread the love.   The theme I came up with was ' From Back Yard to Pit Yard, what inspires Competitive BBQ'ers '. I then enlisted the always helpful Ralph and Kris from Shank Bros BBQ , who'll you'll remember from E...

In Episode Ten of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Brett Connell from Flamin' Mongrels BBQ on one of the hottest topics in competition BBQ: Sponsorship. Please be sure to Subscribe to the Podcast and leave a Review to spread the love.   The Mongrels have had a ripper of a last twelve months, competing in TV's Aussie BBQ Heroes , performed very well through...

In Episode Nine of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Ralph Barnett from Shank Brothers BBQ on one of the more 'businessy' aspects of competition BBQ: Branding. Please be sure to Subscribe to the Podcast and leave a Review to spread the love.   If you haven't heard of the Shank Brothers, you might just be living under an actual rock. The Shank Brothers are w...

In Episode Eight of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Lukas Armstrong from Rollin' Smoke BBQ . Please be sure to Subscribe to the Podcast and leave a Review to spread the love.   Rollin' Smoke has been consistently at the top of the competition ladder throughout the season and at the time of recording were preparing to make a run on second place after the u...

In Episode Seven of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Rohan Peterson from Ro'N'Slow BBQ Team, or as I like to call him, the Thunder from Down Down Down Under, as he hails all the way from sunny, warm Tasmania. The Ro'N'Slow BBQ team competes on the mainland and if I was interested in teasing him, I'd say that that makes him one of Australia's few Internatio...

In Episode Six of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Tony Gimellaro from The Beard and the BBQ . Please be sure to Subscribe to the Podcast and leave a Review to spread the love. Tony's team is currently in the Top Ten in the country, he's a caterer, and now a sauce producer with his signature line of sauces available nation-wide in the chain of Barbeques Ga...

In Episode Five of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Rod Duggan from the Ministry of Smoke . Please be sure to Subscribe to the podcast and leave a Review to spread the love. Rod has been cooking over wood fires since the 1960's and has literally decades of experience to share. In this interview Rod shares heaps of information about different types of fuels...

In Episode Four of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast , I chat with Chris Davey from the Top 10 team The Smoking Hot Bros. Please be sure to Subscribe and leave a Review to spread the love. The Bros cook on both offsets and verticals, so Chris was the perfect person for me to put on the spot and dive deep into the arguments for and against both offsets and verticals. Than...

In Episode Three of the Comp Ready series of The Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast, I chat with Dan Midgely, owner and Master Pit Builder at BSG Smokers . Dan is a straight shooter who answered every question I could think to ask about buying, building and using an offset smoker. Thanks and appreciation go to Coastline Barbeques and Heating for sponsoring the first series of the Smoking Hot Confessi...

In this, the second episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast, I interview Billy Gibney, owner and operator of Meat at Billy's, a premier butcher in Brisbane, specialising in competition cuts. In this interview Billy gives us insights into competition cuts of meat – how to find them, how to select them, and shares some hints on what to do with them! Thanks and appreciation go to Coastline Bar...

In this, the first episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast, I interview Adam Roberts, co-founder of the Australasian Barbecue Alliance. Adam is one third of the team that has brought the Low'n'Slow movement to the forefront of Australian culture. In this interview Adam reveals not only his own background as a foodie and BBQ enthusiast, but also the history of the ABA, what you need to know...

Welcome to the Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast.  The first series of the Smoking Hot Confessions Podcast is called 'Comp Ready' where I interview experts in the field of competition BBQ and share their advice and tips with you, so you too can be 'Comp Ready'. To find out more about the podcast, check out www.smokinghotconfessions.com/