My first comp turn ins

Here's our 3rd place pork and chicken and 2nd place ribs. Looking forward to our next outing.




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Thanks guys. The chicken was too dark. It was coming along nicely, with beautiful color until I was distracted for a few moments and well... Fortunately it wasn't burnt at all, just too dark. There's room for improvement on the pork too, but I hope we can do ribs this good next time it counts. They look a little dry in the pic but they weren't at all. They were some of the best I've ever done.

Thanks again guys. Jeff there was no brisket category at this comp. It was a fairly small local deal that took KCBS rules as a guideline, but they kind of did their own thing. One of their rules was that there had to be 3 seperate portions in the box (only 3 judges: one guy who's an exec chef at a high profile restaurant, one who wrote a book on BBQ, and one who has a company that makes wing sauces). The box looked good to me when I fixed it up but you're right, when I looked at the pic later I thought there was too much leaf showing.