BBQ RADIO NETWORK with Andy Groneman & Todd Johns

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 transformation losing 80 pounds which ignited a fire inside her to become a certified nutrition coach and personal trainer. She now develops recipes some of which include wood, smoke, and seasonings to infuse flavor to create healthy options. Nothing gives her more satisfaction than teaching others how to create mouthwatering food through BBQ and Grilling. 

Todd and Andy will be going through some delicious ideas for grilling fruit.

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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 2023 American Royal crown for chicken.

Brad has become the benchmark of consistency. In this episode Brad is going to get into some specifics of the hot ‘n fast revolution in barbecue and how you need to approach cooking this way in a drum. 

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"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 show. He actually ziplined a whole hog into the American Royal for smoking. This show he is going to be talking about some of the other famous antics he is known for while cooking whole hogs at The American Royal.

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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 applications in the real world.
His passion, SmokerBuilder, was founded by Frank in 2010 with a small blog and a shop full of tools. Since then, he has published over 200 sets of smoker plans, and produced in person and online courses teaching fabrication. His mission was, and still is, to "Teach people to build a smoker".
www.smokerbuilder.com

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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 show, “He’s giving away a ton of secrets!”

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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 York Times, Fox & Friends, and the Cooking Channel – just to name a few.

Join us for some incredible ideas on how to handle those BBQ leftovers.

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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, his team finished 2nd in Dessert and then went on to become the 2013 World Food Champion! He is currently the 2022 World Burger Champion and in 2023 he will again be competing in the Burger category. He has won several bbq contests and has received over 150 awards. At the American Royal World Series of Barbecue, he has received two perfect scores of 180 in the Dessert category! Who else would we turn to to get a handle on creating burgers your family, friends and neighbors will never forget?

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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 it the "BEST".  He will discuss getting your brisket spot on and how to deal with the infamous stall that invariably happens. Andy and Todd will be talking about trimming and cooking “Thor’s Hammer”.

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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 have traveled nationally and internationally to compete in major competitions including the Jack Daniel’s World BBQ Invitational, where they won the title of World Pork Champion, the American Royal World Series of BBQ, where they won Reserve Grand Champion in 2014 and 2022 out of more than 500 professional BBQ teams, and won the title of Chicken World Champion and The Kingsford Australian World BBQ Invitational where they won the title of Brisket World Champion. Loot N’ Booty BBQ is a 4-time Arizona BBQ Team of the Year and was featured on an episode of Destination America Channel’s Smoked, where Sterling and his wife Molly won the title of “Smoked BBQ Boss.” Loot N’ Booty BBQ Rubs and Sauces are sold nationally and internationally at hundreds of retailers world-wide, and Sterling teaches competition and backyard style BBQ classes at locations across the world. For more information visit: www.lootnbootybbq.com

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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 category wins under his belt. HIs number is on speed dial across the NFL with teams like the New York Jets and his hometown Atlanta Falcons putting in requests for him to show up and cook for the team. Suffice it to say, he knows how to knock it out for large, hungry groups of people.

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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 you that his aim is to cook meat to blow your mind, not to taste like something you’ve had before. He is considered to be one of the best pork pitmasters in the world! In this show Mark is going to talk about the real issue with pellet cookers (avoidable) and getting that great caramelization on your meat. Todd Johns will discuss with Andy how to glean from TV pitmasters and competition champions (like himself).

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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 followed he has accumulated one of the most impressive resumes on the BBQ circuit across America.

·       7 World Championships

·       2016 KCBS National Grand Champion – Team of the Year

·       2016 KCBS National Ribs Champion

·       2017 American Royal Open World Champion

·       2017 King of the Smoker Grand Champion

·       Multiple KCBS Perfect Scores in Chicken, Ribs, Brisket and Pork

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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.

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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 in the BBQ Segment. We will talk to him about how and why there is such a difference in charcoal brands.

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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.

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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 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 competed.  He has won well over 80 Grand Championships and Reserve Grand Championships combined during his 15+ years of cooking. Many backyard BBQ enthusiasts and competition cookers all over the world have used his Texas Pepper Jelly, Rib Candy and Craig's Sauce in their BBQ cooking over the past 13 years.

Todd and Andy will also expand on the use of “jelly’s” in BBQ and what to consider before getting your next cooker, as well as a little bit about electric smokers.

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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 transformation losing 80 pounds which ignited a fire inside her to become a certified nutrition coach and personal trainer. She now develops recipes some of which include wood, smoke, and seasonings to infuse flavor to create healthy options. Nothing gives her more satisfaction than teaching others how to create mouthwatering food through BBQ and Grilling. 

Todd and Andy will be going through some delicious ideas for grilling fruit.

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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. Brad has become the benchmark of consistency. In this episode Brad is going to get into some specifics of the hot ‘n fast revolution in barbecue and how you need to approach cooking this way in a drum. 

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www.holsteinmfg.com

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 including the Jack Daniel’s World BBQ Invitational, where they won the title of World Pork Champion, the American Royal World Series of BBQ, where they won Reserve Grand Champion in 2014 and 2022 out of more than 500 professional BBQ teams, and won the title of Chicken World Champion and The Kingsford Australian World BBQ Invitational where they won the title of Brisket World Champion. Loot N’ Booty BBQ is a 4-time Arizona BBQ Team of the Year and was featured on an episode of Destination America Channel’s Smoked, where Sterling and his wife Molly won the title of “Smoked BBQ Boss.” Loot N’ Booty BBQ Rubs and Sauces are sold nationally and internationally at hundreds of retailers world-wide, and Sterling teaches competition and backyard style BBQ classes at locations across the world. For more information visit: www.lootnbootybbq.com

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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 category wins under his belt. HIs number is on speed dial across the NFL with teams like the New York Jets and his hometown Atlanta Falcons putting in requests for him to show up and cook for the team. Suffice it to say, he knows how to knock it out for large, hungry groups of people.

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