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Once again the Great American Barbecue was a great weekend to spend cooking outdoors. This year the organizers bumped the date up to be the week before the long Memorial Day holiday weekend. This gave the competition teams the chance to still compete in this great contest, and also be able to spend some valuable family time over the long weekend. Burnt Finger BBQ came out of the weekend with calls in 4 of 8 categories we entered, and two local Kansas City teams walked away with Grand Championships in each of KCBS contests.

Congratulations to our friends from Big Creek BBQ and Boondoogle BBQ for taking home the GC honors in the Open and Invitational contests!!! Out of all the teams competing that weekend, these guys were placed right next to each other and split of the cost of a Johnny. As Bob from Boondoogle says “Teams that *hit together win together!” Nice work gentlemen!

Our team, Burnt Finger BBQ, didn’t quite walk away with hardware of that caliber, but we were darn close. Our dessert posted a perfect score from all 6 judges….but so did one other team’s entry. First place came down to a coin toss, and we lost. That’s okay though, 2nd place and perfect score honors still make for a fantastic weekend. Special thanks to our cheesecake queen Katherine Bresette for another strong showing!

Our other calls were 14th in beans, 16th in vegetables, and 13th in pork in a field of 190 teams.Similar Posts:

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Last weekend we spent Saturday afternoon out at a local barbecue supply store offering up Bacon Explosion samples to the hoards of people loading up brand new grills and smokers for this year’s barbecue season. Next to us was a gentleman churning out wood fired pizzas on a trusty Big Green Egg. It didn’t take long before we sent over a couple hand fulls of Bacon Explosion and a bottle of Burnt Finger BBQ sauce. The results were GLORIOUS!!!

Photo Credit: Megan Day

Update: A fan recently sent in another picture of a homemade Bacon Explosion pizza. Looks tasty!

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This past weekend our competition team, Burnt Finger BBQ, took to the road to compete in North Little Rock, AR at the Smoke on the Water barbecue contest. With a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000.00, the world’s richest barbecue contest drew many of the top teams from across the country, including a few of those familiar faces recently featured on TLC’s recent hit TV show BBQ Pitmasters.

Immediately upon pulling into the parking lot we unloaded our trailer and hoisted a brand new banner sporting the logos our newest sponsor Iron City Brewery. Big thanks to those guys for supporting our barbecue team, and also contributing to our beer consumption habits at a contest!

Smoke on the Water turned out to be a fantastic contest for our team. Not only did we get to introduce the competition barbecue world to Iron City Lager and IC Light, but we also had beautiful weather for a majority of the weekend. While our hometown of Kansas City was getting pounded by a winter storm, we were kicking back in our lawn chairs enjoying the clear blue sky and 70 degree temperatures. Although the weather did turn on us just before the awards ceremony, the rain couldn’t dampen our excitement as we heard our team name called for 3 awards at a contest with 227 teams competing for top honors!!! Here’s the full breakdown of our placement.

Chicken: 32nd
Ribs: 13th
Pork: 8nd
Brisket: 221st
Overall: 103rd

In addition to the standard KCBS categories, the event also hosted an auxiliary sauce contest. We offered up our official Burnt Finger BBQ Private Stock Barbecue Sauce to the judges and came away with a fantastic 13th place finish up against some of the most popular barbecue sauces on the market.

Huge congrats are due to Pellet Envy (2009 KCBS Team of the Year) for taking home the Grand Championship, as well as Cool Smoke (Tuffy Stone from TLC Pitmasters) for Reserve Grand Champion honors! The full results can be seen over on the KCBS website.Similar Posts:

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