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Sunday, May 20, 2007

BBQ Fundraiser



UPDATED WITH MORE PICTURES

The 1st Annual Plymouth Church BBQ Fundraiser was held this past Saturday with the Moist Heat Team preparing food for a sell out crowd of more than 80 people looking for a taste of authentic southern BBQ! The event raised $1500 with all proceeds going to the church. A big thanks to everyone who attended as well as the businesses that helped sponsor the event including Bunzel's, Cranky Al's, and Bartolotta's. And thank you to Fox and Branch for providing us with American roots music while we enjoyed the great food.






The event began at 5PM with the Moist Heat Team scrammbling around the kitchen getting not only the event food prepared, but also preparing our competition meat that was to be judged by two local chefs. The judges were brought a sample of each item in the competition (sauce, pulled pork, ribs) and recorded their scores for the announcement that would happen later in the night.





Jo-Be-Wan then took center stage and presented his famous BBQ PowerPoint presentation to the crowd of drooling mouths as the smell of BBQ filled the room. Once everyone was caught up on their BBQ history, it was time to eat!! Smoked chicken, pulled pork, brisket, ribs, an entire table of sauces, and too many side dishes to name made for a feast of southern BBQ. People were coming up for 2nd helpings just as soon as we had finished dishing out the first round of meat. Everything was a hit but the beef brisket seemed to get the most compliments and was the only dish we ran out of. (Take that Joe-Be-Wan!) Fox and Branch continued to play as everyone ate their meals and then headed up to the dessert table for peach cobbler and ice cream.

The tension was mounting as everyone was awaiting the results of the BBQ competition. The results were tallied and the rib competition was tied between two of the contestants. A third judge was then brought in to taste each of the ribs. He ate most of one of the ribs (T-Bone) and said "Very good". He took one bite of the other (Flamb Ed) and he said "That's the one!!". The official results were then announced. Best sauce went to Joe-Be-Wan for his modified Willingham sauce. Best pulled pork also went to Joe-Be-Wan. And Best rib went to Flamb Ed for his spare ribs with Guinness Beer BBQ sauce. Just for fun, the Moist Heat Team then tallied the total of all three scores to see who was the overall winner. Initially it looked like T-Bone was the top point getter. But after reviewing the scores, Joe-Be-Wan came out on top. Below are the results from the competition:






Best Sauce:

Flamb EdAndakinT-BoneJoe-Be-Wan
Appearance (10 pts. max)10101010
Texture (10 pts. max)10101010
Taste (20 pts. max)13141619
TOTAL (40 pts. max)33343639




Best Pulled Pork:

Flamb EdAndakinT-BoneJoe-Be-Wan
Appearance (10 pts. max)961010
Texture (10 pts. max)76910
Taste (20 pts. max)16141820
TOTAL (40 pts. max)32263740



Best Ribs:

Flamb EdAndakinT-BoneJoe-Be-Wan
Appearance (10 pts. max)91089
Texture (10 pts. max)109109
Taste (20 pts. max)19171916
TOTAL (40 pts. max)38363734


Note: After reviewing the scores, there was a miscount on the Ribs tally. Ed won 38-37 over T-Bone's ribs with no "Rib-Off" needed. However, the "Rib-Off" made for a good time. :)


Overall Points Total:

Flamb EdAndakinT-BoneJoe-Be-Wan
10396110113







Thanks again to everyone who helped make this event a huge success! Click on the links below for more pictures from the event.

Prepping for the competition

More prep for the competition

Sampling the competition ribs

The great Joe-Be-Wan teaching

Table of sauces

Serving up the meat

Joe-Be-Wan checking his meat

Young D-Rock enjoying the food

Coda getting some sauce
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