My name is Ky and I am a pellet smoker.

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Ky Belk

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Had my smoker for about two weeks now and I'm addicted. Started with country-style pork ribs, then a brisket, followed by spare ribs, a boneless ribeye roast and today a pork belly and hunk of pork shoulder. Great food. I'm hoping to fine tune some recipes and enter at least one BBQ competition next summer.
 
Hobbit

Hobbit

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Ky, Welcome to the forum from Manassas, VA. What are you cooking on? You should be able to get all the pointers you would ever want about the competition circuit from the experts here. P.S. Fire up the camera and show us some food!
 
scooter

scooter

Moderator
Welcome to PelletSmoking!

Before you enter a contest, I suggest you locate a KCBS judge certification class near you, take it, learn it then go out and judge some contests. Find some judges that have judged a lot of contests and ask them what they look for. With the knowledge you pick up from judging, you will be in the know on what you should be turning in to be judged. Good luck.
 
ACW3

ACW3

New member
I took a KCBS judging class and then took a KCBS cooking class before I judged my first contest. It was at the cooking class that I first learned about pellet grills. Now I have one. Those two classes really prepared me to be a better judge. You learn what it takes to be a judge and a cook. I have met people who think they know-it-all about cooking in competition. They wouldn't place in a backyard competition because they don't listen to what the rules are for the contest. They have the attitude that no-one else can cook like they do. And, in a sense, they are right. They have cooked it for themselves, not the judges. I'm not looking for flaming hot anything in competition. I'm looking to score the entry by the standards.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Art
 
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