Oumagic in AZ: Ribapalooza 2019

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I am not sure who might be interested, but today is our big neighborhood competition. Rather than clutter the BBQ thread, I figured I would start a new thread. Ignore if you want. The thread will have lots of photos and basically go throughout the day. I have my Callaway hat and THP socks on and hope the good luck charms lead me to victory! I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Ribapalooza is something me and my buddy started about 10 years ago. Competitors must enter 3 racks of ribs and an “other.” At the end, anyone over 21 can vote for a rib and “other.” I have not won ribs in a few years, but won the other last year with pulled pork egg rolls. We gather around 3pm and eat at 5ish.

At 8am, I had the grill clean and the pellets setup. I am going with apple wood pellets as the main and have Jack Daniels oak pellets in my smoker tube to supplement. I will cook until wrap stage, and then move to my buddy’s house.
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We are setup and my favorite brewery has a new release at 9am. My wife and kids are good enough to go with me for a burrito and beer to go. Of course I had to sample the beer before buying it to go:
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I will update later. Maybe someone will be interested. I just got Tapatalk and am seeing how this goes...


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Oumagic in AZ: Ribapalooza 2019

10:40am and now we are live. The Traeger is preheating and so is the pool. The ribs will go on around 11:00am and I will be in the pool a little later!
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I will update later this afternoon.


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Sounds fun. Looking forward to following along.
 
11am and the ribs are on. I will spare the pictures of this 40-something in a speedo, but I can’t help posting nearly naked ribs ;)
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Nothing left to do but some prep for chicken sliders to go on later. Have a splendid Saturday afternoon!


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One of the best things about low and slow is that the taste of the food makes it seem like you busted your butt. I am glad the dog is witness to how hard I have worked today! There is not a lot of talk about this part of the smoking process ;)

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The ribs are wrapped and the operation has moved to my friends house. They looked really good before wrapping. The chicken is another matter and was not cooking as fast as planned. I am going to have to pull a rabbit out of my hat on the other if I am going to win there. Just need to cook on a higher temp than planned to get it done. But it is going to be chopped and saucy and should turn out fine.

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Cook is done! Food porn pics below and results will be in a few minutes! This is the “other” category.
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Here are the rib category pics. A few people dropped out of the category.
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Results are in, and I was not the winner. Ribs #3 won and the other category was a tie between sausage and street tacos. It is beer thirty and thanks for those that followed along!


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Looks like a great way to spend the day!
 
A great day and fantastic start to the weekend. No victory for me today, but just like golf, it isn’t about the score but the journey. The people that won deserved it and I gave my best. I hope you all have a great rest of the weekend. I will fire up the smoker again on Monday. Me and the dog are tired and ready for bed. The wife went to bed awhile ago ;)
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Fantastic stuff here
 
Looks like a great day!! That food looked amazing!!
 
Fantastic man! I haven’t had time to smoke anything yet this year but if you were to move to my neighborhood, I wouldn’t be sad! (You would be sad though trading AZ for OH).
 
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