BBQ Tips and Tricks
This week the http://GrateTV.com BBQ and Grill Show covers a bacon recipe that adds a bit of a twist to the BLT. Call it a P-L-T. That’s PIGCANDY lettuce and tomato. We’ve talked about Pig Candy before (succulent, sweet and delicious candied bacon).
We stacked it up with a sweet Hawaiian roll with a fresh garden tomato and lettuce. Simple but awesome.
Plus we announce the winner of the Island Grill Stone from the Pizza show.
If you ever make a visit to Charleston (or are planning a drive between Myrtle Beach and Mount Pleasant) pull over on Hwy. 17 and try Carolina’s Best Hot Dog. Jack’s Cosmic Dogs is a super fun retro hot dog joint that offers hot dog variations as funky as the great decor.
Don’t let the giant missiles and gravel lot scare you. Jack’s Cosmic Dogs serves up fun and fast counter service hot dogs with super toppings like sweet potato mustard (their specialty) and blue cheese slaw.
The sweet potato mustard is in such high demand they bottle it up and sell it right in the store.
Location: 2805 U.S. 17, Mt Pleasant, SC 29466
If you’re a first timer trying your hand in a big time BBQ competition you’re in luck. Our weekly podcast at http://GrateTV.com has put together a few quick videos to help you get started smart. Save yourself some time and money and watch how to present competition chicken here.
The Kansas City Barbecue Society is the world’s biggest sanctioning organizations and a few skillful pit masters attempt to make a living traveling from contest to contest (some call it a circuit) trying to win the most prize money. Some of the contest pay thousands. But it’s not a very cheap barrier to enter. Contest fees, travel, food costs, and yeah beer, all add up. Especially if you don’t walk to get a trophy.
So here’s a few ways to jump ahead of the pack in chicken. Our latest video walks you through the “presenting” or appearance of Chicken for BBQ. Dig deeper for a really nice Chicken skin prep primer.
And here’s our YOUTUBE playlist for all things chicken.
Rib cook offs are plentiful during the summer months. There’s not a big thrteshold to entry. Pay the fee and cook. However if you REALLY want to have a chance at winning a Rib Cook off you need to know how to correctly present your ribs to the panel of judges to insure a top score on appearance.
Rib Cook offs usually are judged by the categories taste, tenderness and appearance. Taste is the the toughest to nail. Tenderness can be perfected with a disciplined and scientific approach to the cook. The judges want the bite to come off the bone clean with a gentle tug and have the bone quickly turn white underneath leaving a perfect half circle bite mark (not fall off the bone as most people think).
The appearance criteria and rules differ with different sanctioning organizations (in KBCS you can us garnish – others do not allow).
The weekly podcast http://GrateTV.com took a deep dive into boxing BBQ ribs for the perfect Appearance score and Jack Waiboer walked us through the method to his Rib cook off madness.
“Appearance is the easiest category to get right,” he says and shows us a real KCBS box at a competition at Sams Club in South Carolina.
Also remember you can’t mark the box in any way. You are not allowed any pooling of sauce and please make sure there are no hairs in the box. Even basting brush hairs will kill your appearance score at a rib cook off.
Other common mistakes include late turn in (submitting your rib box after your allowed time) and not including enough samples for each of the judges on a table. Waiboer talks about six or eight in this video. Your specific contest will tell you an exact number of judges you’ll need to feed. Just one bone short will knock you out of the running to win.
Remember for appearance judging the taste of the ribs makes no difference to your score. Too many times a great tasting submission will lose a competition due to just being dumped in the box. It happens in almost every professional judged rib cook off.
Waiboer also says one barbecue trick to help see any imperfection in the final minutes is to take a close up photo of the box and scan it for something you may have missed. It helps take a step back from the table and also serves as a nice piece of research history when reviewing scores or planning your next competition.
Taste and tenderness can be perfected over time but appearance is something you can nail down in your first rib cook off or competition. Watch the video and tell us in the comments if you have a trick to winning a rib cook off.
Time for a cool summertime beverage. This one is cool and ice cold delivered in a chilled watermelon keg! It’s a cocktail recipe that can be served spiked or not and we make it a bit more special by tapping the keg with an affordable spigot from our local home brew craft shop.
More on this cocktail recipe at our podcast site http://gratetv.com/cocktail-recipe-watermelon-keg/
Need something sweet but flashy to put an exclamation oint on your next cook out over coals? Try this Banana recipe that is super simple and fun.
We tested it out on the GrateTV BBQ and Grill show and can attest to the tasty results.
Take a look as Pit Master Jack Waiboer and Bill West match up banana against ripe plantain to see which one grills tastiest when split and roasted on live coals with your choice of candy bar mix ins. Spoiler alert: we LOVED banana and Almond Joy with a dollop of vanilla ice cream.
Check out the full banana recipe here and watch us in action HERE.
http://GrateTV tackles South Carolina Blue Crab on the grill and we step things up with a sweet and tasty Krispy Kreme bun to carry your crab salad.
Head to http://GrateTV.com for the full crab recipe!
What’s the best BBQ fuel source? Purists say charcoal. Hardwood lump. Hardwood. But the crew at our weekly BBQ and Grill show – GrateTV – think you can still get a great tasting product with propane gas. your life may be a little easier in the process. Charcoal snoots beware – you may not want to hear this.
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GrateTV is a short-form, educational web series focused on making barbecue fun! We release a new episodes every week typically originating from the LowCountry of South Carolina “the Birthplace of American BBQ.” Each episode is brief – about a beer in length. Our focus is on fun but easy barbecue tips and tricks plus entertaining information.
Competition BBQ season has fired up and GrateTV is sharing the best tips and tricks on chicken for BBQ.
This week it’s a sample look at the Carolina Pit Master’s Barbecue Cooking School class on competition chicken with Seth Watari.
Seth dissects (literally) the chicken thigh and shows a trick for perfecting bite through chicken for BBQ and presenting a KCBS (Kansas City BBQ Society) competition Chicken box.
Take a look at the sizzling new “sizzle” reel for GrateTV and remember to keep checking back to GrateTV: New Episodes Every Thursday!
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Check out over 200 videos and recipes at http://GrateTV.com
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GrateTV is a short-form, educational web series focused on making barbecue fun! We release a new episodes every week typically originating from the LowCountry of South Carolina “the Birthplace of American BBQ.” Each episode is brief – about a beer in length. Our focus is on fun but easy barbecue tips and tricks plus entertaining information.
Category
Food Home & Garden Learning & Education
Starring:
Jack Waiboer and Bill West
Written by:
Waiboer/ West
License
Standard YouTube License
