Contest Announcment BBQ FESTIVAL & Competition - Middletown, CT

CodyJ. · Apr 23, 2014

Taino Smokehouse in Middletown, CT is throwing its annual BBQ Festival.
This is not a KCBS sanctioned event, however, there will be two KCBS judges overseeing and judging for the event.
The format has been altered from a usual KCBS event which makes it fun and different.

This is a good opportunity for young teams to get some experience and also some experienced teams to participate in a non-sanctioned event.

There is also a People's Choice competition for Chicken Wings and Pork.
Eating contests too.

For more details:
Contact info: contact@tainosmokehouse.com or 860-358-9828
Taino Smokehouse can also be found on Facebook

JimmyDAL · Apr 23, 2014

Too bad we'll be in Maine

CodyJ. · Apr 23, 2014

That is too bad. It's always a good time! There wil be another event in October

JimmyDAL · Apr 23, 2014

Ck the kind sight to confirm no other events are happening for bigger draw

CodyJ. · Apr 23, 2014

Wow. The KCBS site shows zero events in the northeast that weekend. There may be other events going on though of the non affiliated variety.

Smoking Pill Doc · Apr 23, 2014

Team Meat is planning on being there to defend our Wings... Hopefully they will get their math right the first time around...

CodyJ. · Apr 23, 2014

Yeah. That was wack. They'll get it right this time.
Goat Locker will be there

motoeric · Apr 24, 2014

How do the rules vary from a standard comp?

Eric

Smoking Pill Doc · Apr 24, 2014

basically a lot more relaxed. A good / bad thing turn in times can vary dramatically, judging was not blind. Very family friendly and quite relaxed.

motoeric · Apr 24, 2014

Smoking Pill Doc said:
basically a lot more relaxed. A good / bad thing turn in times can vary dramatically, judging was not blind. Very family friendly and quite relaxed.

I'm not to happy about the lack of blind judging and can you explain what you mean by varying turn-in times? Do you know in advance when you are turning food in?

Thanks,

Eric

CodyJ. · Apr 24, 2014

Hold up. Turn in times are set. But it wasn't blind in the past. You bring your meat up to the judges in a random order that was determined the day if the event. There are 3-4 judges that taste everyone's food. This is different from KCBS. In a KCBS comp you could get a table that scores stupid low/high for no reason. The chicken category is "open". Lots of people do wings. This year it is all chicken. No frying. It is a chill atmosphere and family/dog freindly. You don't have health inspectors up your ass for giving out leftovers. There is a beer truck. Bands. Whatever. Good time.

CodyJ. · Apr 24, 2014

Not "all" chicken. Just any part you want to use as long as there are enough for all the judges. Same as KCBS

motoeric · Apr 24, 2014

CodyJ. said:
There are 3-4 judges that taste everyone's food. This is different from KCBS. In a KCBS comp you could get a table that scores stupid low/high for no reason.

I gotcha. I definitely want to support small comps, informal or not.

I'm just not comfortable with non-blind judging when competing. I would have no idea if the judges brother in law was competing, if a pretty girl served the food, etc. Do you just drop off the food or do you discuss what it is? For example, when presenting the ribs, do you just bring it up, put them down and leave or do you say 'these are elk ribs, shipped in from Montana, slow smoked with a special cumin rub, blahbity, blah, blah'?

How many teams are they expecting to compete? With only three judges, that might be a LOT of meat that they are consuming.

Eric

JimmyDAL · Apr 24, 2014

My call, friends of friends win or firemen/police just saying. Total blind unbiased or not worth it IMHO.

motoeric · Apr 24, 2014

I spoke with the organizer and it's blind judging.

Eric

Smoking Pill Doc · Apr 24, 2014

Blind judging is a change (for the better) in format from last Oct then. Thanks for looking into it.

motoeric · Apr 25, 2014

Does anyone know how the people's choice portion of this event work?

Do we need food handling certificates? How much do we need to prepare? Are there prizes?

Eric

CodyJ. · Apr 25, 2014

Details should be posted today

CodyJ. · Apr 25, 2014

Competition rules - draft

http://www.tainosmokehouse.com/documents/CookOffRules.pdf

http://www.tainosmokehouse.com/documents/PeoplesChoiceRules.pdf

Or at the Taino Smokehouse Facebook page

motoeric · Apr 25, 2014

According to the People's Choice rules, they are expecting roughly 25 teams and they are only using 3 judges for the 'judged' portion. That means that the judges will be consuming more than 4 times the amount of food than they normally would.

I hope that they don't run into food fatigue for whoever is turning in their food last. Do they need more judges or is this a deliberate decision for some reason?

Eric

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