Four Q First in Brisket at Moorpark BBQ Contest
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| First place beef brisket. Photo by the BBQ Junkie |
My barbecue competition team mates on Four Q BBQ took first place in the beef brisket category last weekend. Brisket cook Neil “Big Mista” Strawder took a well deserved, first win in his category after a string of top placings. Congratulations, Neil, on your number one slot, and another cow trophy for your collection. Your brisket always rocks (shameless plug for Big Mista’s catering)!
Congratulations also to overall winners Tropical Heat (woohoo Bill and Dan!) and BBQ by Dan (way to go, Dan & Barbara). My teammate BBQ Junkie has a detailed breakdown of winners in each category, if you’re interested.
It’s great to have four cooks on our team whose kung fu is strong. I missed this contest, and they stepped right up and took fifth place in the pork rib category: the meat that I usually cook. As with past contests we did with one cook missing, Three-Fourths Q is still a wrecking crew. Where was I? Cooking a charity event with the California BBQ Association to benefit the Wishland Foundation. Post to follow.
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| Beer can chicken. Photo by the BBQ Junkie |
For more photos from the 2007 Moorpark Fall Fest and BBQ Cookoff, see my teammates’ archives:
Bigmista’s Pics






September 11th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I have a new rule. You can’t post photos like these without giving me some first.
September 11th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Chubby-
Just a fair warning, beware of MY boarding house reach.
Prof-
Do you realize the photos you are publishing are qualifying your blog as a porno site?
September 16th, 2007 at 9:54 am
That brisket looks killer.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
You rock! Good job. I agree with chubbypanda!