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1. Gates Bar B.Q.

2. Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ

3. Arthur Bryant’s BBQ

4. The Shed Barbeque & Blues Joint

5. Pappys smokehouse

After approximately 3 years, BBQ-Festivals.com has a fresh, new look.  The re-design was done to make the popular bbq event site easier to navigate and to find information.  With more than a million hits a year, BBQ-Festivals.com along with GreatBBQRestaurants.com and this blog has become a leading resource for people looking for great barbecue.

 If you want to learn how to cook outdoors, regardless of the style, Gary House is the “go-to” guy.  I’d all but relegated my dutch oven to camping duty, but then I watched a couple of Gary’s video. Now, he’s put  his collection up on iTunes:  

The how-to show of backyard BBQ and outdoor cooking. If it can be cooked indoors, I can show you how to cook it outdoors! Do you want to learn how to use Dutch ovens, BBQs, Fire Pits, Foil cooking and Camp cooking? Then this is the show for you! Great product reviews and new ideas. Grill it, bake it, smoke it, fry it, we can do it. Watch Gary House, the “Outdoor Cook” host of www.Cooking-Outdoors.com create simple, easy and enjoyable meals cooked completely outdoors! “Get out of the Kitchen, Light the Fire and Start Cooking Outdoors!

Chicken:
1 Warden’s Q
2 Vets Vittles
3 Duck-B-QUE
4 Smokin’ T’s
5 4 Smokin’ Butts
6 Blazin’ Blues BBQ
7 Branding Iron BBQ
8 Cracked Ribs Cooking Tea
9 True Family BBQ
10 Shameless Smokers
11 Smelly Butts BBQ
12 Lion Bout The Q
13 Bluff City Sweetloins
14 Grilla Maniacs
15 Redneck Grillers
16 Show Me Smoke
17 Penny Street Porkers
18 Oinks Inc
19 Rib Call BBQ
20 Highway Heat
21 Three Knights and a Luth
22 Backyard Grillers and Sh
23 PigDawg
24 Good Greif BBQ
25 The Mascoutah Smokemaste
26 Good Old Boys
27 Kiwanis Club
28 San Dangaro Smokers
29 Partners-N’-Swine
30 Beer B-Q-R’S
31 Smoker’s Ace
32 Maramic Flaming Pits
33 Making Ends Meat
34 Comfort Care in Home
35 Three Men and a Grill
36 Pine Hills BBQ
37 The Grill Sergeants
38 Goin’ Hog’n
39 Lemons Coin Jukebox Gril
40 Que’s Your Daddy BBQ
41 Smokin Brothers
42 TheFabulous Faultliners
43 Davis Farms
44 Two Rubs and a Spank
45 Big River BBQ
46 Wright On Que
47 Snoutmasters BBQ
48 Rockin Rotary Roasters
49 Smokey Bottom Cookers
50 UP In Smoke Inc

Ribs:
1 Warden’s Q
2 Smoker’s Ace
3 Wright On Que
4 Redneck Grillers
5 Penny Street Porkers
6 PigDawg
7 Que’s Your Daddy BBQ
8 4 Smokin’ Butts
9 Cracked Ribs Cooking Tea
10 Smokin’ T’s
11 Branding Iron BBQ
12 Maramic Flaming Pits
13 Smelly Butts BBQ
14 Highway Heat
15 Beer B-Q-R’S
16 Pine Hills BBQ
17 Smokin Brothers
18 Partners-N’-Swine
19 Goin’ Hog’n
20 Three Men and a Grill
21 Grilla Maniacs
22 Show Me Smoke
23 UP In Smoke Inc
24 Lion Bout The Q
25 Good Greif BBQ
26 The Mascoutah Smokemaste
27 Blazin’ Blues BBQ
28 Smokey Bottom Cookers
29 Rib Call BBQ
30 Three Knights and a Luth
31 Good Old Boys
32 Rockin Rotary Roasters
33 San Dangaro Smokers
34 Bluff City Sweetloins
35 Two Rubs and a Spank
36 Making Ends Meat
37 Oinks Inc
38 TheFabulous Faultliners
39 The Grill Sergeants
40 Vets Vittles
41 Comfort Care in Home
42 True Family BBQ
43 Davis Farms
44 Duck-B-QUE
45 Snoutmasters BBQ
46 Backyard Grillers and Sh
47 Lemons Coin Jukebox Gril
48 Kiwanis Club
49 Big River BBQ
50 Shameless Smokers

Pork:
1 Warden’s Q
2 Redneck Grillers
3 Good Greif BBQ
4 Lemons Coin Jukebox Gril
5 Branding Iron BBQ
6 4 Smokin’ Butts
7 Penny Street Porkers
8 Blazin’ Blues BBQ
9 Backyard Grillers and Sh
10 Smokin Brothers
11 Wright On Que
12 The Mascoutah Smokemaste
13 San Dangaro Smokers
14 Maramic Flaming Pits
15 Lion Bout The Q
16 Beer B-Q-R’S
17 Highway Heat
18 Smokey Bottom Cookers
19 TheFabulous Faultliners
20 Smelly Butts BBQ
21 Three Men and a Grill
22 True Family BBQ
23 Three Knights and a Luth
24 Que’s Your Daddy BBQ
25 Shameless Smokers
26 Partners-N’-Swine
27 Two Rubs and a Spank
28 Duck-B-QUE
29 Goin’ Hog’n
30 Cracked Ribs Cooking Tea
31 Rib Call BBQ
32 Snoutmasters BBQ
33 Show Me Smoke
34 UP In Smoke Inc
35 Kiwanis Club
36 Grilla Maniacs
37 Rockin Rotary Roasters
38 Good Old Boys
39 Smokin’ T’s
40 Oinks Inc
41 The Grill Sergeants
42 Davis Farms
43 Smoker’s Ace
44 Pine Hills BBQ
45 PigDawg
46 Big River BBQ
47 Vets Vittles
48 Comfort Care in Home
49 Making Ends Meat
50 Bluff City Sweetloins

Brisket:
1 Smokin Brothers
2 Redneck Grillers
3 Goin’ Hog’n
4 Two Rubs and a Spank
5 Show Me Smoke
6 TheFabulous Faultliners
7 Three Knights and a Luth
8 Warden’s Q
9 4 Smokin’ Butts
10 Partners-N’-Swine
11 Highway Heat
12 Branding Iron BBQ
13 Smokin’ T’s
14 Grilla Maniacs
15 Blazin’ Blues BBQ
16 Duck-B-QUE
17 Penny Street Porkers
18 Smokey Bottom Cookers
19 Lion Bout The Q
20 Que’s Your Daddy BBQ
21 Good Greif BBQ
22 The Mascoutah Smokemaste
23 Bluff City Sweetloins
24 Big River BBQ
25 Wright On Que
26 Beer B-Q-R’S
27 The Grill Sergeants
28 Lemons Coin Jukebox Gril
29 Vets Vittles
30 PigDawg
31 Snoutmasters BBQ
32 Smoker’s Ace
33 Cracked Ribs Cooking Tea
34 Rib Call BBQ
35 Smelly Butts BBQ
36 Pine Hills BBQ
37 San Dangaro Smokers
38 True Family BBQ
39 Shameless Smokers
40 Three Men and a Grill
41 Backyard Grillers and Sh
42 Making Ends Meat
43 Rockin Rotary Roasters
44 Davis Farms
45 Maramic Flaming Pits
46 Comfort Care in Home
47 Good Old Boys
48 Oinks Inc
49 Kiwanis Club
50 UP In Smoke Inc

courtesy: http://www.bbqbug.com/recipe

Pizza aficionados will travel far and wide for that unique flavor and crispy crust only high dry heat and bricks can produce. Watch us make an authentic Old Time Brick Oven Pizza, just like the famous coal fired Pizza Houses in New York and New Haven, with just a few bricks and your charcoal grill. Barbecued Pizza is one of our favorite foods to do on the grill. Try it once, and you’ll be back for more. -BBQ Pit Boys

Ingredients:
Pizza Dough
Flour
Corn Meal
All or any of the following:
Sausage Links
Pepperoni
Ground Beef
Bell Peppers
Mushrooms
Onion
Mozzarella Cheese
Olive Oil
Tomato Sauce

Pre-heat grill to high heat 400f + with bricks placed on the grill grate as shown. Prepare the pizza dough. Add oil to top of dough and then sauce, your favorite meats, vegetables, and cheese. Sprinkle corn meal on cutting board, and slide pizza on to the hot bricks. Cover the grill and then cook until the crust is the way you like your pizza.

The Best Dam BBQ Cookoff is less than a week away!  

 I am excited about judging the Benton/West City Chamber of Commerce hosted event at the Rend Lake Dam Visitor Center. Hence the “best Dam” moniker.

This is a Kansas City BBQ Society sanctioned event and has been declared a State Championship Cookoff by the State of Illinois.
In conjunction with the cookoff, the Benton/West City Chamber of Commerce and the US Army Corps of Engineers host the annual Rend Lake Fireworks Display which attracts nearly 40,000 visitors to the area. The fireworks are set to take place on July 4th, 2010 at the Visitor Center.

For more information on this event you can visit KCBS at http://www.kcbs.us/ or you can email event organizers at  bestdambbq@gmail.com.

Contest Rules And Regulations

I get a call the other day asking if I would judge a barbeque cook-off at a Low Country festival in the fall.  As I’m getting the specifics on the event the guy asked me if I’m “certified.”  Well, I’m certifiably a lot of things but not a barbeque judge, so I tell him so. This conversation leads to a series of events that has landed me with an invitation to attend barbeque judging certification school.

Read her entire story here.

There is a new host for season two of BBQ Pitmasters.  Kevin Roberts has been selected by TLC to host the second season of BBQ Pitmasters.

Kevin Roberts is an executive chef, cookbook author, sports bar owner, and radio & tv personality. Here is his bio from his website Munchies TV He also goes by the nickname “the Food Dude”.

FULL STORY FROM DivaQ