Send us a Text Message. Sterling Smith, 2022 World Barbecue Champion, US Navy Veteran, barbecue teacher, cookbook author, and owner/Pitmaster of Loot N’ Booty BBQ, has been competing on the professional barbeque circuit since 2009. In that time, Sterling and his family have traveled nationally and internationally to compete in major competitions in…

Send us a Text Message. Our guest swears by it - mastering reverse sear will elevate your backyard game all the way around. And she's going to walk you through it. Danielle Bennett, aka DIVA Q, is being inducted into the BBQ Hall of Fame this fall via The American Royal. A well deserved accolade for a champion pitmaster with over 400 awards to her …

Send us a Text Message. They have been hounding Craig Carter of Aces Wild BBQ for years to find out how he does his award winning "Scotch Egg" - and we've got the exclusive right from the horse's mouth. www.bbqradionetwork.com www.holsteinmfg.comتوسط Andy Groneman & Todd Johns & Richard Fergola

Send us a Text Message. Chiles Cridlin is the Pit Master of "Wolf's Revenge BBQ" and is cooking with a smoker that he designed and built himself, taking it across the country on the KCBS circuit to see how his recipes and skills rank against other professional BBQ teams. Hint: Very high! He is a poultry master and this episode focuses on getting ch…

Send us a Text Message. Over the years, guest Heath Riles has not only established himself as a master of the cooking styles of both of the two principle sponsoring bodies in the industry – the Memphis BBQ Network (MBN) and the Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS) – but also a master of the winning style favored by the Steak Cook-Off Association (SCA). T…

Send us a Text Message. Larry Olmsted is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author who has published several books and thousands of articles for major newspapers and magazines worldwide over the past 25-plus years. He was named one of the “10 Most Extreme U.S. Journalists,” by the Society of Professional Journalists and Travel Writer of th…

Send us a Text Message. After 34 years of running meat markets, sausage counters, selling wholesale, and running a custom meat processing plant, David Bouska started cooking in his local BBQ competitions. Since then, David has won hundreds of competitions INCLUDING the World Champion BBQ Pitmaster of 2012, followed by a second World Championship in…

Send us a Text Message. Chef Fred Nesbitt is one of the country's leading cannabis chefs. Based in San Francisco, Fred is in demand creating dining experiences not for the faint of heart. Classically trained as a chef and augmented with a certification in Cannabis Science & Medicine from the College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, Fred cr…

Send us a Text Message. As a respected authority on Texas-style barbecue, Jess Pryles is also a co-founder of the Australasian Barbecue Alliance, designed and releases the JP Signature Edition Pitts & Spitts smoker, created an internationally- acclaimed line of meat seasonings under the Hardcore Carnivore® brand and has partnered and been ambassado…

Send us a Text Message. Blane Hunter (a.k.a. Mr. Porky Butts) grew up barbecuing in south Texas from a very young age. With over 27 years of experience combined with a Culinary education from Johnson and Wales and FVTC culinary schools Blane started competing professionally in the world of BBQ in 2013. In the seven short years that followed he has …

Send us a Text Message. What makes Hot n Fast smoking work? Tim Scheer (who pretty much started the crazy phenomena) explains how his Gateway Drum Smokers get the job done. He will also tell you how he grows Wagyu beef at Marble Ridge Farms. Andy and Todd will have cast iron care and feeding tips for you. www.bbqradionetwork.com www.holsteinmfg.com…

Send us a Text Message. TRAVIS CLARK has 10 World BBQ Titles to his name as Andy and Todd get caught up with his doings in Oklahoma as well as considerations in preparing for getting a run at a great summer of BBQ in your own backyard. Co-Host Todd Johns is going to wax eloquent on grilling fish, including the use of planks. www.bbqradionetwork.com…

Send us a Text Message. It's that time of year, so we visit with the guy who monitors the pulse of the BBQ industry for new products and services. David Gafford from The Barbecue Lab will be talking about all the new products unveiled at the Hearth, Patio & BBQ Expo in Nashville last month. On the docket is AI, starting your fire with just the pull…

Send us a Text Message. 21 year US Air Force Veteran Mike Starr has traveled all over the world. During those travels he experienced unique cultures and tasted unique foods. He is bringing those unique flavors from his world travels to your backyard. Mike guarantees that after you try his natural sauces and seasonings in the Blazing Star line up, y…

Send us a Text Message. Armed with a background in the Refrigeration, HVAC, and Food Equipment Industry for 28 years, Frank Cox has made his living with temperature control, fluid dynamics (liquid and vapor), and heat transfer in many applications in the real world. His passion, SmokerBuilder, was founded by Frank in 2010 with a small blog and a sh…

Send us a Text Message. Worth Repeating... "Celebrity Chef" Aaron Franklin was named Best Chef: Southwest by the James Beard Foundation in 2015. After countless hours spent working the pit, he has earned a reputation as one of the top celebrity chefs in the BBQ. It all began in 2009 when he and his wife Stacy opened up the first location of Frankli…

Send us a Text Message. Craig Sharry is the Pitmaster of Texas Pepper Jelly Competition BBQ team out of Houston, TX. Craig is a 2-time World Champion at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Craig is also a 2-time winner of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo BBQ Cook-Off, the 3rd largest sanctioned cook off in the United States where over 220 teams…

Send us a Text Message. Aaron Stoffer of THE REAL Man Meat BBQ is gaining a name for himself, not only as a competitor on the BBQ circuit, but for his line of rubs and sauces as well (new one's coming out soon). Aaron really gets that we are all about sharing tips and techniques, so he comes loaded to talk about how to layer flavors in your BBQ. To…

Send us a Text Message. Having a get together for the Big Game? Who does the Today Show call? Our special guest and KC homie, Megan Day. Megan has garnered 5 World Championships, and four of those are for the incredible rubs and sauces in the BurntFinger.com line-up. Megan (one of our favorite guests) has been featured on The Today Show, Food Netwo…

Send us a Text Message. Getting healthy in your New Year's resolutions? Have we got something for you... Sunny Moody is the 2021 WFC Steak Category Champion and has received numerous awards, Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion plus multiple 1st place finishes in many categories in BBQ and Grilling. After a life altering diagnosis of a brain a…

Send us a Text Message. It started in 1998, when Workman published Steven Raichlen’s groundbreaking THE BARBECUE! BIBLE, which fired a grilling revolution around the world, transforming the arts of smoking and grilling to the cult status it enjoys today. When this 500-recipe homage to global live-fire cooking was first published, American grilling …

Send us a Text Message. When they talk about the best BBQ place in America there are a couple names ALWAYS in the conversation - one of them being Big Bob Gibson's in Decatur, Alabama. Chris Lilly is a 4th generation partner of Big Bob's and is the head pitmaster of the Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q Competition Cooking Team, the winner of 17 World BBQ Cha…

Send us a Text Message. Chris Schafer, pitmaster of Heavy Smoke BBQ, picked up his third world championship title at the prestigious 2022 Jack Daniels Invitational. A restaurateur and BBQ instructor, Chris talks about some of the techniques he teaches (there's a class coming up) as well as having the proper mindset. Chris’s competition trail has be…

Send us a Text Message. Bourbon and BBQ are well acquainted partners in crime and as we close out the year of 2023 we are trying something that we've had in our minds since the show started a few years ago - A BOURBON TASTE OFF. Producer T-Bone randomly selected 8 different bourbons and put them before hosts Andy, Todd and special guest Rich Fergol…

Send us a Text Message. BRAD COLTER & BREANA VIA are pretty new to the BBQ scene but have taken off like a rocket in the last year. First they won the 1st Annual Made for KC Cookoff that awarded them a one year pitmaster residency at Kansas City’s new airport terminal. Just to show it was no fluke, they turned around and not only was invited to the…

Send us a Text Message. Myron Mixon's won over 200 grand championships resulting in over 1,800 total trophies, 30 state championships, 8 Team of the Year awards, and 11 national championships. Mixon's teams have taken three first place whole hogs at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbeque Competition; has been the Grand Champion a…

Send us a Text Message. What to get your favorite BBQ'er for Christmas? David Gafford offers suggestions from the many products he has personally used in The Barbecue Lab. They have all gone through David's rigorous 25 point testing, so you know they are winners. Meanwhile, Todd & Andy will make sure to talk about gifts you might want to avoid. www…

Send us a Text Message. Ham? Prime Rib? Lamb? Chef Tom Jackson from ATBBQ.com has you covered this Christmas to make an impression at the dinner table. A culinary institute trained chef, Chef Tom Jackson always brings it to the recipes he consistently develops and unveils on YouTube. Check out his fantastic and professionally produced videos by sea…

Send us a Text Message. As a respected authority on Texas-style barbecue, Jess Pryles is also a co-founder of the Australasian Barbecue Alliance, designed and releases the JP Signature Edition Pitts & Spitts smoker, created an internationally- acclaimed line of meat seasonings under the Hardcore Carnivore® brand and has partnered and been ambassado…

Send us a Text Message. Thanksgiving is here so we grabbed back to back KCBS Turkey Smoke Team of the Year leader, Chiles Cridlin, to talk about doing that turkey right for the holidays. Chiles is the Pit Master of "Wolf's Revenge BBQ" and is cooking with a smoker that he designed and built himself, taking it across the country on the KCBS circuit …

Send us a Text Message. Some outside the box Thanksgiving ideas as host Andy Groneman reminisces with the 2011 Junior World BBQ Champion, his daughter, Kaylin Groneman. You might be surprised at what comes up when they list their favorite Thanksgiving meals. Creativity is in no shortage with this family. www.bbqradionetwork.com www.holsteinmfg.com…

Send us a Text Message. Mark Lambert is a 5-time Memphis in May World Champion, the 2017 American Royal World Champion in Ribs, and won the 2019 World Championship at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He also was the first runner up at the 2018 World Food Championship BBQ competition. Residing just outside of Memphis, Tennessee, Mark will tell …

Send us a Text Message. Sterling Smith is 2022 World Barbecue Champion at the World Food Championships, US Navy Veteran, barbecue teacher, cookbook author, and owner/Pitmaster of Loot N’ Booty BBQ. Smith has been competing on the professional barbeque circuit since 2009. In that time, Sterling and his family have traveled nationally and internation…

Send us a Text Message. Our guest this week made an in-person studio visit all the way from Australia. Brett Robinson is well known in Melbourne as one of the original adapters of U.S. style BBQ and led the charge for teaching and it becoming so popular in Australia. He's going to let us in on some flavor profiles for lamb and we get an explanation…

Send us a Text Message. Sunny Moody is the 2021 WFC Steak Category Champion and has received numerous awards, Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion plus multiple 1st place finishes in many categories in BBQ and Grilling. After a life altering diagnosis of a brain and spinal malformation along with MS, Sunny went through a major lifestyle transf…

Send us a Text Message. Brad Leighninger of Getting’ Basted BBQ is the very definition of winning consistently. Winning pork at Memphis in May, winning the Jack Daniels Invitational, and back-to-back KCBS Team of the Year Championships (which he has won 3 out of 4 years), all of that while running multiple restaurants. He even took down this year's…

Send us a Text Message. "STRETCH" Rumaner is completely innovative and original, as his appearance on BBQ Pitmasters proved. A frequent guest of Guy Fieri (he’s part of the famous Mess Lords), and not just on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, STRETCH is becoming a common fixture on Food Network shows. He is a wild man and is always a favorite of the sh…

Send us a Text Message. Frank Cox, known as “The BBQ Pit Engineer”™️ has been building BBQ Smokers as a hobby and business for over 13 years. Armed with a background in the Refrigeration, HVAC, and Food Equipment Industry for 28 years, he has made his living with temperature control, fluid dynamics (liquid and vapor), and heat transfer in many appl…

Send us a Text Message. AARON STOFFER ON GETTING PERFECTLY DONE RIBS, PLUS "A TON OF SECRETS" Aaron Stoffer of THE REAL Man Meat BBQ is gaining a name for himself, not only as a competitor on the BBQ circuit, but for his line of rubs and sauces as well. Aaron wanted to talk about how to get perfectly done ribs every time, and as Todd said in the sh…

Send us a Text Message. Megan Day has garnered 5 World Championships, and four of those are for the incredible rubs and sauces in the BurntFinger.com line-up. Megan (one of our favorite guests) has been featured on The Today Show, Food Network’s Chopped Grill Masters (winner), the Amazon Prime documentary Smoke & Ribbons, the front page of the New …

Send us a Text Message. MAKING A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BURGER Dave Elliott is originally from Minneapolis, he later moved to Kansas City where he found his love of bbq and outdoor cooking. Although he specializes in outdoor cooking, he has competed in the Dessert, Pasta, Burger and Steak categories at the prestigious World Food Championships. In 2013,…

Send us a Text Message. This week's guest, Meathead Goldwyn, BBQ Hall of Fame inductee & author of "Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", is recognized as one of the leading authorities on BBQ. His website, www.AmazingRibs.com, is probably the most popular BBQ website on the internet. What is indisputable is the fact Forbes calls i…

Send us a Text Message. We are going to get into how to play around with your flavor profiles with Sterling Smith, 2022 World Barbecue Champion, US Navy Veteran, barbecue teacher, cookbook author, and owner/Pitmaster of Loot N’ Booty BBQ. Smith has been competing on the professional barbeque circuit since 2009. In that time, Sterling and his family…

Send us a Text Message. REPEAT BROADCAST DUE TO HEALTH CONCERNS If you love BBQ, there is a very good chance you have heard of Big Jim Stancil, or at least his company, Bare Knuckles BBQ, which was featured during season 3 of BBQ Pitmasters on Destination America. Big Jim is a full time corporate caterer with 2 Grand Championships and a slew of cat…

Send us a Text Message. Mark Lambert is a 5-time Memphis in May World Champion, the 2017 American Royal World Champion in Ribs, and won the 2019 World Championship at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He also was the first runner up at the 2018 World Food Championship BBQ competition. Residing just outside of Memphis, Tennessee, Mark will tell …

Send us a Text Message. NEW SHOW Blane Hunter (a.k.a. Mr. Porky Butts) grew up barbecuing in south Texas from a very young age. With over 27 years of experience combined with a Culinary education from Johnson and Wales and FVTC culinary schools Blane started competing professionally in the world of BBQ in 2013. In the seven short years that followe…

Send us a Text Message. REPEAT - NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK TRAVIS CLARK has 10 World BBQ Titles to his name as Andy and Todd get caught up with his doings in Oklahoma as well as considerations in preparing for getting a run at a summer of BBQ in your own backyard. Co-Host Todd Johns is going to wax eloquent on grilling fish, including the use of planks. …

Send us a Text Message. REPEAT - Joey Machado has over 20 years in BBQ and 10+ years in the business of BBQ specializing in brand and product building. He helped build B&B Charcoal to its current ubiquitous state but is now a charcoal and BBQ pit manufacturer at his own “Texas Original Brands”. He also specializes in white labeling and consulting i…

Send us a Text Message. ALL ABOUT CHICKEN Back-to-Back KCBS Turkey Smoke Team of the Year Chiles Cridlin of Wolf’s Revenge BBQ, (he crushed the competition), to talk about doing the more popular poultry option (it’s chicken, right?). You may want to take notes on this one as it’s coming out fast and furious. www.bbqradionetwork.com www.holsteinmfg.…

Send us a Text Message. Before you buy your next rack of ribs you owe to yourself to hear what Craig Sharry says about how you can get tricked into getting what you DON’T want. Craig Sharry is the Pitmaster of Texas Pepper Jelly Competition BBQ team out of Houston, TX. Craig is a 2-time World Champion at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Craig …