Reser's BBQ Pack weekly give away - June 4

Reser's BBQ Pack weekly give away - June 4

Week 4 is done with another excited winner and we are on to our last week - Week 5!.  Same rules as the last 4 week to enter (easy contest huh!) Meat, Inc. BBQ Team is teaming up with Reser's Fine Foods to help you celebrate National BBQ Month!  This is the last week we will be giving away a fantastic BBQ Gift Pack including:

Reser’s BBQ Prize Pack (will be shipped overnight/refrigerated)

·         Trio of Reser’s Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad and Cole Slaw

·         4 Koozies to keep those beverages cold

·         4 Stress Potatoes (to keep things calm)

·         4 Re-usable Tote Bags to carry all of your goodies

 Each Friday a random winner will be drawn and their prize pack will be shipped directly to their door.

All you have to do to enter is:

• "Like" the Reser's Fine Foods Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/Resers
• "Like" the Meat, Inc. Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/Meatinc
• "Share" the Contest announcement on either Reser's or Meat, Inc. Facebook Page

  - OR -   

• Follow Reser's on Twitter - @resers
• Follow Meat, Inc. on Twitter - @meatinc 
• Copy and paste this message onto your twitter - May is National BBQ Month - @resers @meatinc will help you celebrate!

Harrah's Blues & BBQ Competition

Harrah's 1st Annual Blues & BBQ Competition and California State Championship BBQ Competition in Valley Center, CA.


We brought the new trailer / smoker to this event to cook our People's Choice meats and breakfast as well as our competition meats. The new trailer is a monster and once again - we only used 2 of the four shelves because it is so HUGE!

We had a great turn out for the team including Aaron, Doug, Mike (now an official team member), Wendy, Michelle, with some side help from Ryan and Dr. Chris White.


Michelle is giving the camera the evil eye because I should be helping stuff the 15 lbs of peppers!


Doug and Aaron prepping chicken. Where is Noe, Colin or Josh for this exercise? Prepping chicken SUCKS! Michelle is officially volunteered for the next comp.


Michelle laughs as she has to assist Aaron in rubbing the meats. Why is she laughing?


Meats are on for about 5 hours now - nice color. Look at ALL that room! Let's cook some more meats!


We added the ribs, wrapped PC and comp meats, and BREAKFAST! Carne Asada Chowder - YES!!!!


One super sized Bacon Explosion - aka Fatty ready for chow!


The Carne Asada Buffet Line. Hash browns, Bacon, Chowder, and Carne Asada waiting to be piled into a bowl. The other BBQ teams came from miles around to eat breakfast with Meat, Inc. Dave from All Sauced Up paid their "toll" - 1 bottle of Canadian Club Whiskey - the perfect pairing for Carne Asada Chowder!

Aaron eye-balls a chicken skin - is it for the comp meats or is it a mask for a new super hero?!?!

Look at the team effort getting the comp meats just right!

The fire department showed up to test out the flaming hot Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABT's). Luckily the men were ready for the heat!

Mike and Wendy helping out one of the many VIP's of the event.

This was a first year event for the promoters so there were some minor issues - like the 8" boxes (normally we get 9" boxes) but we adapted and overcame! On the plus side, they delivered as much ice and water as we needed - which is a great help to the BBQ teams. We go through a ton of ice keeping the cold food cold - and the cocktails colder!

Chicken - we still stuffed 9 pieces into that little box. One person said it looked like "eggs in a carton". We did OK on the chicken with a 12/29 but coming off of our 1st Place in Vista, we were really hoping for better. Next time!

Ribs - it was hard to get 6 bones in that little box - we finished 18/29. A bit of a disappointment but what can you do!??!

Pork - our lowest placing - 25/29. Not DAL but getting too close for comfort. We have a plan for next time and world domination!

Brisket - 22/29. It was a bit overdone for comp meats so we have some good direction and feedback so onward and upward. (It still kicked ass and some folks from Texas thought it was the best they'd ever had!).

As soon as Aaron finishes washing dishes - we can get this party started! Buddy Guy and BBQ King played later and we had to finish selling out of People's Choice Meats and get our drink on!

This very nice lady proclaimed that "this is the best pepper I have EVER had!". I'm not arguing with her - are you?

Our former Team Mate - Dean H. from Sportsman BBQ taking 4th in Chicken - way to go Deano and Josh!!!

The sun sets on Meat, Inc. with zero walks in this comp. There was still some fun to be had with Dr. White and the rest of the crew along with a Buddy Guy and BB King concert coming up and perhaps some late night snacks from the smoker.........

Viejas 2008

This is the Fourth Annual Competition for the Viejas "Smokin' in the Park" event. With $17,500 in Prize Money at stake, this is one of the biggest competitions in the State of California!!

This event is KCBS and CBBQA Sanctioned with KCBS Rules and Reps

Date: Oct. 17th & 18th 2008

Location: Viejas Outlet Center5005 Willows Road, Alpine, CA 91901

For the complete official results:

http://www.cbbqa.org/wiki/index.php?title=Viejas_Smokin

Meat, Inc. didn't do as well this year as we have in the past. The normal crew of Dean, Aaron, Ryan and Greg couldn't make it so Aaron bribed, enlisted, begged, and forced some others to participate. Ryan did eventually make it but took the judges class and judged the competition. This actually turned out to be a pretty good idea. Even though Dean and Aaron were already qualified KCBS Certified Judges, neither had actually judged a competition. Ryan had some really good insight after it was all over which should help us to get our scores up in the future.

The team that Meat, Inc. fielded is as follows: Aaron, Noe, Ken, and Joe.

Here's how Meat, Inc. placed in this one:

Overall: 47 / 52

Chicken: 36 / 52

Ribs: 48 / 52

Pork: 48 / 52

Brisket: 36 / 52

Some of the difference in 15 spots in the score card were tenths of a point but that kind of sounds like and excuse.

The main problem we had at this competition was the presentation. There were lots of 4's and 5's in presentation. Most of the other scores were in the 7's - 8's and some 9's mixed in. The presentation basically killed the scores. See the pictures attached to this post.

We did have fun and might have had one or two too many beers. We also met some really cool people coming out of the casino at 2am. They promised to be back at 6am for some BBQ school and breakfast. We went to bed thinking that will never happen - sure enough - 0600 with a milk crate full of vodka and bloody mary fixins - we fired the party back up. I'm almost positive that the event staff will place our team in the farthest reaches possible from now on as we have proved that we have a hard time following the noise rules (4 years in a row now). No one has actually said anything to us but you can see the look of recognition from the event staff and Meat Police after about 30 seconds of talking to us (and looking at our meat).

Ryan will properly school us on presentation and we should compete a lot better in 2009.