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Team BBQbyDan Dan & Barbara Cannon |
Team Tropical Heat Bill Keyes & Dan Daniels |
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Team BBQbyDan & Tropical
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Half Chicken |
Pork Spare Ribs 1st - BBQ by Dan 2nd - Tropical Heat 3rd - OU8 BBQ 4th - Pit Stop
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Pork Butt 1st - BBQ by Dan 2nd - OU8 BBQ 3rd - 4Q BBQ 4th - Tropical Heat 5th - Pit Stop BBQ
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Brisket 1st - 4Q BBQ 2nd - Tropical Heat 3rd - Papas Smoke House 4th - BBQ by Dan 5th - OU8 BBQ
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Pam Gram & Barbara Cannon |
Bill Keyes Tropical Heat |
Dan Daniels Tropical Heat |
Sylvie Curry, Luis Ramirez, & Neil
Strawder 4Q BBQ |
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Thom Emery, hanging with BBQbyDan |
John & Sharen Scott, Papa's Smokehouse BBQ |
Papa's Smokehouse BBQ vended during this event and worked extra hard | Todd Eves & Noel, OU8 BBQ | ||
The Pit Stop, vending, Pete & Pam
worked extra hard at this event |
Todd taking a self-portrait | Todd gets a big head shot, then I do too!!! |
Noel pointing to his secrets |
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Noel & Todd |
Todd getting awards | Wonderful venue & venders |
Wonderful venue & venders |
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Moorpark BBQ Contest, 8-September-2007
Moorpark California
Organized by the Moorpark Chamber
of Commerce
Arrival
Venue What a great place! A Walnut orchard, on green grass, under shade, with a cool breeze blowing nicely all evening and all day Saturday. It was definitely a perfect temperature. Not hot like last weekend. However, I did work with folks that live in Moorpark and they said on Sunday is was up to 90 degrees. We had power, porta-potties, and spots all ready upon arrival. The chamber folks were on hand to direct us to our spots and provide for any need we had. Vendors were setting up their booths for sales the next day. It is nice when it all works out nicely like that.
Thom Emery arrived somewhere after 09:00 pm and finally most folks in attendance were relaxing. It was a great get-together and party from my perspective and I had a great time Friday night visiting folks.
Contest I finally started prepping the meats later in the evening. Put the briskets and butts on soon afterwards, got the fire up to temperature, setup for the long-burn till morning, and everything was going great.
Got up at 06:00 and adjusted the fire, prepared the chicken and ribs for cooking, and had breakfast with Todd and Noel of OU8BBQ.
Barb (my wife) arrived about 10:00 and started the final preparations and turn-in chores. The last 10 years I have just done KCBS contest. This was my first IBCA (International. Barbeque Cookers Association) and I had to learn how to work in a different way. Specifically: - Half Chicken turn-in. Can’t be cut up - 7 Ribs, stacked horizontally (no more) - 7 Brisket slices, stacked horizontally (no more & no point/deckle allowed) - Pulled Pork, stacked horizontally - We used Texas Greens (tin-foil) in the turn-in trays. That made life easy! - Turn-in on the hours (noon= Chicken, 1:00= Ribs, 2:00= Butt, 3:00= Brisket) with a 10 minute window before and after the hour. It was definitely much more relaxed than a KCBS contest. Overall I liked it and had a great time.
Thom did a fantastic job organizing the judging booth, judges, and all that goes with the responsibility of making an event successful. Awards went off like clockwork at 4:00. We had all been told we would need to vacate the premises after awards so many were ready to leave right after awards. I went around and congratulated who I could fine then pulled out right after Todd by 4:30. Too bad we missed being able to attend the after-contest-celebration by all the teams. That is always a nice relaxing way to wrap up a weekend and get to socialize a bit more.
Congratulations to all the teams and thanks to all that made the event happen. Overall it was a great event and am looking forward to next year’s.
Dan Cannon BBQbyDan |
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