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Rob Cherni:  Captain Porkard of the USS Burnt-End-erprise

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Whole Milk
  • 4 slices White Bread
  • 2 pounds Ground Beef
  • 1 cup Parmesan Cheese
  • 1/4 Chopped Parsley
  • 2 Whole Eggs, Beaten
  • 1 teaspoon  of Your Favorite Rub
  • 2 pounds bacon

Directions

Place everything except for the meats into a mixer and mix on low for 2 minutes.  Add the ground beef and mix until incorporated.

Take a piece of plastic wrap and begin shingling the bacon out on it.  Each

piece should cove half of the previous one.  Place the meatloaf mixture into the center and form the loaf.  Pull the plastic over the loaf and pull it tight to help form it.  Let it rest for a few hours to overnight before cooking.

Smoke to an internal temperature of 150 degrees and glaze with your favorite sauce if you like.  Allow the meatloaf to rest at least 20 minutes before serving.

 

 

 

 

As a contest organizer you want to hold a successful contest that teams will come back to year after year.  Money is
tight and trying to distribute prize money fairly and keeping as many people happy can be tough.

Other than a well run contest, teams are looking for a high percentage of their entry fees going to the payout pool.  Most would like to see 80-100% of entry fees going towards the purse.

Surveys in some popular BBQ forums have come back as most teams would like to see payouts go as far as 10th place.  We are calling out the team names down to 10th place why not award them as well.

Here are a few examples of distributing payouts using this strategy.  See if you can make it work for your contest.

5000%5000%5000%
GC90018%GC100020%GC110022%
RGC50010%RGC50010%RGC55011%
3rd overall3006%3rd overall3006%3rd overall3507%
1st25020%1st25020%1st22518%
2nd20016%2nd17514%2nd15012%
3rd12510%3rd12510%3rd12510%
4th756%4th756%4th756%
5th504%5th504%5th504%
6th252%6th252%6th252%
7th252%7th252%7th252%
8th252%8th252%8th252%
9th252%9th252%9th252%
10th252%10th252%10th252%
Catergories3300100%Catergories3200100%Catergories3000100%
Overall1700Overall1800Overall2000
Total Payout5000Total Payout5000Total Payout5000

This gives a few options for paying 10 places in each category and top 3 overall.  Below gives options for top 10 in both and shows how you can distribute payouts to make sense for more for GC and a little less for GC.

 

5000%5000%5000%
OverallOverallOverall
GC80016%GC90018%GC100020%
RGC4008%RGC50010%RGC50010%
3rd2004%3rd1503%3rd1253%
4th1253%4th1253%4th1002%
5th751.50%5th1002.00%5th751.50%
6th501.00%6th751.50%6th501.00%
7th501.00%7th501.00%7th501.00%
8th501.00%8th501.00%8th501.00%
9th250.50%9th250.50%9th250.50%
10th250.50%10th250.50%10th250.50%
CategoriesCategoriesCategories
1st22518%1st20016%1st20016%
2nd20016%2nd17514%2nd17514%
3rd12510%3rd1008%3rd1008%
4th756%4th756%4th756%
5th504%5th756%5th756%
6th252%6th252%6th252%
7th252%7th252%7th252%
8th252%8th252%8th252%
9th252%9th252%9th252%
10th252%10th252%10th252%
Catergories3200100%Catergories3000100%Catergories3000100%
Overall1800Overall2000Overall2000
Total Payout5000Total Payout5000Total Payout5000

Here are the 2017 Wildwood BBQ Bash Results.

If you have any questions on the results, please email judging@stlouisbbqsociety.com

 

Buffalo Chicken Fatty

Ingredients

  • 1lb ground chicken thighs (substitute ground chicken) do not use ground chicken breast.
  • 14 thin slices of bacon (approximately 1lb)
  • 1 block of cream cheese
  • 2 oz bleu cheese
  • 2/3 cup of shredded carrots, chopped green onion, chopped celery
  • Penzey’s Ozark Seasoning
  • Franks Hot Wing Sauce
  • Red Jalepeno Jelly
  • Butter flavored Crisco cooking spray
  • 1 gallon zip-lock bag.

Directions

Coat the inside of the gallon bag with the cooking spray.  Place 1lb of ground meat into the bag and spread it evenly.  Use the bag to help create a square sheet of meat on the inside of the bag.

On a cutting board, cover with 2 sheets of foil overlapping each other.  Place 7 strips of bacon parallel and pushed tightly together.  Flip up the end of every other piece of bacon on one end.  Place a piece of bacon perpendicular to the 7 strips on the end in which you flipped up the bacon pieces.  Fold the flipped up ends down on top of the piece of bacon you just placed.  From the other end of the piece you just placed flip back the pieces you did not flip previously.  You will be folding these over the piece of bacon you laid perpendicular.  Now place another piece of bacon tightly against the fold and then flip back the fold pieces of bacon over this piece.  Repeat the pattern alternating strips of bacon until you have weaved a 7 piece by 7 piece bacon lattice.

In a bowl, soften and combine a block of cream cheese and 2 oz of bleu cheese.  Fold in the carrot, onion, celery mixture and 1/4 cup of wing sauce.  Set aside.

Open the gallon bag with the ground chicken and using kitchen shears, cut down the side of the bag.  Carefully peel back the plastic and lay the formed ground chicken on top of your bacon weave.

Place the cheese mixture into the center of the ground chicken.

Using the foil to assist, roll the far side of the bacon and chicken sheet back over the cream cheese mixture.  Repeat with the front forming a meat log filled with the cheese/vegetable mixture.  Pinch the ends of the log together.

Unroll the foil and dust the meat log with the Ozark Seasoning.  After the meat is covered,  wrap the meat tightly with the foil.  Twist the ends of the foil tightly so that it compresses and forms the meat.

Prepare a grill for a low and slow indirect cook.  By shutting down your vents and cooking this way, you can keep the grill under 350.  This will take approximately 2 hours to cook.

You can also prepare a smoker to cook at 225.  It will take approximately 3 hours using this method.

Once your grill or smoker is up to temperature place the meat unwrapped onto the grill grate.  Cook until the outer layer of chicken is at 170 degrees.  You can also use the bacon as a visual indicator.  it appears to be browned around this temperature.

Glaze the fatty with a buffalo chicken glaze which consists of 2 parts of buffalo sauce to 1 part red jalapeño jelly.  Glaze in multiple layers to the desired thickness.  This may take an additional 1/2 hour.

When done glazing, remove from the grill and allow to rest.

To serve, slice into pieces approximately 1/2 – 3/4 inch thick.

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