CBBQA Forum is back, YES!
The CBBQA (California BBQ Association) website has been updated. YES! And, it runs so much faster than it did before. There is a forum, which I am falling in love with all over again, and an all-new BBQ wiki. Check out the site, post a comment, ask a question, make a friend and have some fun.
Four Q takes 1st in BBQ ribs
Yay, team
First place ribs
Not only 1st place ribs, but we also placed 5th in BBQ brisket at this weekends Go For The Gold BBQ Competition. YAY Four Q! I believe that the brisket we turned in was the best that our team had done, I wish that we had gotten first place. Oh well, I had the opportunity to sample the 3rd and 4th place brisket, and they were absolutely delicious as well.
Professor Salt definitely rocked the house with the ribs, I feel partially responsible because he was using my WSM water pan. Now I will be able to tell my grandchildren that the water pan in my smoker once achieved greatness. The chicken, well lets just say the my water pan was busy doing other things… the same goes for the pork.
Congrats to all of the other teams who participated. As usual, it was great kicking it with all of y’all.
Check out the photos at my flickr page: see all photos
Go For The Gold BBQ Championship ‘07
We, Four Q BBQ Team, will be participating in the Go For The Gold BBQ Championship this weekend. I really don’t know too much about what else is going on at this event aside from there being some food vendors and such. It’s at the San Bernardino County Fair Grounds out in Victorville, CA. If you happen to be there stop by and say hi.
Welcome back lemonchicken
I would quickly like to congratulate Brian over at lemonchicken on the resurection of his Los Angeles food blog, food.lemonchicken.com. Even though he doesn’t discuss too much BBQ, his old school blog served as in inspiration for this blog back in the day… now if I could just get him to start using WordPress. Welcome back Brian.
BBQ Bagels
I was getting some questions about the KTLA segment where we showed bagels being cooked in a BBQ pit. The long story short, Professor Salt used the WSM (smoker) as an oven. He’s been working on the perfect bagel recipe… I thinks he’s pretty close. I caught him on film (sd card) talking about his wonderful little bagels. Or if you’re more curious about his bagels and methodology you can read all about it here.
Here’s a close-up of what these babies looked like.
Barbeque Championship Series
Set your TiVo because it looks like another competition BBQ show has just started on the Versus TV (DirecTV #608). Here is the description:
Presented by Kingsford Charcoal, this competitive bracket-series tournament features the world’s top BBQ chefs vying for $100,000 in prize money – the biggest in ‘cue history. The meats have been marinated; the cookers fired and stoked. Watch as the best pit men in the country line up ready to do battle, apron to apron. But before they can take home the prize, they must face the gamut of judges – the Taste Makers and Breakers – with a celebrity judge or two to spice things up. The torturous scrutiny begins this fall on Versus. Viewers will have an eye-opening experience as they witness survival in the BBQ pits.
BBQ at the Autry ‘07 results
We’ll the Autry is over and we didn’t place. It doesn’t matter too much because we had a great time cooking, chatting, meeting new peeps and just hanging out with other BBQ enthusiasts. Remember it’s not how you play the game… yada, yada, yada.
Congrats to the winners and all who participated, it was a fun event. If you want to see more photos from this event check out my Flickr photoset here.
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Here are the results:
Grand Champion
- Sug’s Shack
Reserve Grand Champion
- Dueling Bubbas
Overall
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3rd QN4u
4th BBQ by Dan
5th Tropical Heat
6th Gourment Grills
7th OTW BBQ
8th Mojave Hot Stuff
9th The Rib Doctor
10th Asleep at the Grill
Chicken
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1st Pit Stop
2nd Burnt By The Best
3rd Addicted to Rub
4th Sug’s Shack
5th All hogs Go to Heaven
Ribs
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1st QN4U
2nd Gourmet Grills
3rd Dueling Bubbas
4th Midwest Heritage
5th Asleep at the Grill
Pork
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1st Sug’s Shack
2nd BBQ by Dan
3rd Dueling Bubbas
4th 155 South
5th QN4U
Brisket
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1st BLQ
2nd Tropical heat
3rd Sug’s Shack
4th Dueling Bubbas
5th Asleep at the Grill
Dessert
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1st All Hogs go to Heaven
2nd Zeke’s Smokehouse
3rd The Change Smoker
Southwest Dish
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1st QN4U
2nd Zeke’s Smokehouse
3rd Big O’s
BBQ’n this weekend at the Autry
Just a reminder that this Saturday Four Q BBQ Team, comprised of four SoCal food bloggers, will be competing at the Autry BBQ competition. Also, if you happen to watch KTLA morning news, Gayle Anderson will be doing a report on this competition and a few of the teams that are there (which just by chance may include Four Q). So be sure and check it out.
One last thing, check out Four Q’s new website that now has been updated to include photos and links.
Hope to see y’all this weekend.
Peace out.
UPDATE:
In case you missed us this morning cooking BBQ on KTLA, you can see video on their website:
Click here to open the webpage then click on the button that says “Gayle Anderson”
Here is a screen grab of our BBQ team courtesy of Rob Lowe (not the actor).
BBQ’n at the Autry 07
The second annual BBQ’n at the Autry Barbecue Championship and Festival is right around the corner, April 14 2007. It will be held at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park (4700 Western Heritage Way).It is a very special competition to the Four-Q BBQ Team and myself because it was our inauguration into the world of BBQ competition. There were a couple of local BBQ events that were canceled last year and it’s nice to see that this one is coming back.
There will be cooking demonstrations, food booths, entertainment, arts and crafts (for the kids), and a whole bunch of other stuff. There is one difference from last year aside from our team having a year of experience under our belts; they are charging an admission fee ($9 adults, $7 students and senior 62+, $3 children 3-12, free for children under 2, and free parking). If you are planning on attending, come early to see the competitors get their entries ready… it’s just like on TV. I will update this post if more information becomes available.
I haven’t abandoned BBQ or this blog
Most of you might be wondering about the lack of posts on this website… yeah me too. I took a little time off from work and blogging to dedicate that time towards getting to know my new baby girl. Yeah, the BBQ Junkie has multiplied. But it is all good. My posts will continue to be a little scarce, but will increase in frequency as I get the hang of this daddyhood thing.
Wanted to throw out a quick little update on our BBQ Team Four-Q. We managed to pull together a third place trophie at the Beach Front BBQ Competition back in november… sadly, I didn’t participate on that occasion 
There are great photos at the other team member sites:
Soul Fusion Kitchen
Professor Salt
The Survival Gourmet
Look for all of Four-Q to compete in the spring at Autry.
Peace out for now.