Capital City Cookoff

[seiowan]

I will be competing in the Capital City Cookoff this weekend. It is a KCBS sanctioned BBQ contest. should have 70+ cooks there. If the weather cooperates it should be a good contest.

If anyone is out and about stop by and say Hi. Look for the Cynful Smokers BBQ Banner. Black and Red team colors.

Right now I am trying to rig the FEC to an inverter, the try last night wasn't successful, the FEC just chugged through the temp zones. Crazy but that was with a 500w inverter, on the BBQ boards they are telling me to drop it down to a 400w. So that is the next try. IF that doesn't work, it looks like I will be cooking on the WSM's. very little sleep with the WSM's.

[Sea Esta]

Good luck! The forecast looks very promising with very mild temps (at least in StL). I'll be firing up the Lonestar but not for comps yet. Got to get some great Q off of her first.

[boatbums]

Good luck we are planning on going to the american royal in october are you thinking of competing there as well. Enjoy the day smokem good[smilie=trink39][smilie=trink39]

[Christian]

Get a hold of Russ (smokin Okie) on the Cookshack board (Or pm me and I will get you his number).

He and Stuart have done bunch of inverters for FEC's and he has a pretty good system that has kept his running.

Kick butt this weekend

[seiowan]

Get a hold of Russ (smokin Okie) on the Cookshack board (Or pm me and I will get you his number).

He and Stuart have done bunch of inverters for FEC's and he has a pretty good system that has kept his running.

Kick butt this weekend


Thanks!
I've checked in with Russ, he runs a high Dollar direct wave sine inverter. When I say high dollar, I mean in the 350 buck deparment. It is one that has to be ordered or bought at a specialty store. I got a 35 dollar 400 watt one to hold temp around 265. That is 15 degrees above what I normally cook at, so I will have to adjust times, but at least it is holding. I have a guy checking on a generator for me. There just so damned loud, and have to be fed with gas every 5 hours, I'm hoping the marine battery and inverter will work out. I think the thing with the cheaper inverters is they cause a control board restart, and then it re-feeds pellets thus making it hotter. But It does hold temp. I will see how this goes. I'm do for a new control board anyway, so if it gets messed up, i'll be ok with it. I'm still taking my WSM's for back up.

It should be a fun time. Hopfully a profitable time. I've got ribs down, Brisket is good, Chicken and Pork I'm all over the place right now.

[36Tango]

Thanks!
I have a guy checking on a generator for me. There just so damned loud, and have to be fed with gas every 5 hours, .


Get a Honda EU2000i. They are awesome, quiet, and run a long time. If we were closer, I'd let you borrow mine.

[Christian]

Thanks!
I've checked in with Russ, he runs a high Dollar direct wave sine inverter. When I say high dollar, I mean in the 350 buck deparment. It is one that has to be ordered or bought at a specialty store. I got a 35 dollar 400 watt one to hold temp around 265. That is 15 degrees above what I normally cook at, so I will have to adjust times, but at least it is holding. I have a guy checking on a generator for me. There just so damned loud, and have to be fed with gas every 5 hours, I'm hoping the marine battery and inverter will work out. I think the thing with the cheaper inverters is they cause a control board restart, and then it re-feeds pellets thus making it hotter. But It does hold temp. I will see how this goes. I'm do for a new control board anyway, so if it gets messed up, i'll be ok with it. I'm still taking my WSM's for back up.

It should be a fun time. Hopfully a profitable time. I've got ribs down, Brisket is good, Chicken and Pork I'm all over the place right now.

Chicken is ahard one, there are a lot of secrets out then for chicken, I found I always did well when I stole myron's cupcake thighs, but I also threw in a few drumettes for a change up, but only if you have kick ass smoked wings

Pork can be tough, I always did best when i cooked several and only turned in bark and the money meat (white meat section)

Have you made it to the CS FEC cooking class with FE and JS yet, it is worth the trip and time

inverters are pure since wave vs modified sine wave.

I had luck by plugging FEC into a decent battery backup for a server and then changing that off the modified sice wave (cheap) inverter......seems round about, but worked for me

I own a honda 2k and it was the best Q investment I ever made and it will run 12hrs on an FEC only and it is QUIET :mrgreen:

[seiowan]

Well, Finished 28th out of 68 teams that scored all 4 events. Best was a call in Brisket 9th. Got me a plaque and a little cash.

My ribs and pork are my usual staple, but I bombed both. Not sure what happened in ribs, got 3 9's from one judge, then a 9 and 2 5's from another. pretty bummed about those, I really consider Ribs my thing.

Highlight was getting my picture taken with Johnnie Trigg, He walked into awards and flashes started popping off.



Christian we need to talk about that set-up. My low cost 400 w inverter worked very well, I had to make a little time adjustment for temp, but it went ok.

Tango that is the generator that most at the contest had.

[Christian]

Welcome to comp Q :)

depending on the ribs, the ceritifed judges were the 9s or the 5s, I found that when I did a larger contest ( like AR open) I would over cook my ribs by 15 or 20 minutes so there were more "fall off the bone" since the chances of me getting to a table of all CBJ was slim in a field of 500+ so cook em like they eat em, and it worked one year we were 28 out of 500

do you cook loins or spares? and if you would like I can send you some of the secrets I have found and used for kick ass ribs

Also let me know on the other questions

christian@itkansas.com

Great job on the call, any time you can walk is an awesome contest [smilie=appl]