Kiska95 wrote:Hey guys,
Just back from the 2015 UK SMF weekend and full of beans (literally). What a great 2 day experience and all free!!!! Yep all food and teaching free, couldn't believe it, they even cooked for the campsite all for free!!!!! They cooked masses of food in just 1 day (take not BBQ champ).Honestly guys You should have a look over at the Smoking Meat Forum (UK and US) it might just open your eyes.
I digress so I decided to watch BBQ Champ with an open mind. Now I am with Wade on the fact that although it is topical for this time of year and as Qing is becoming vogue in the UK, anything that promotes the subject of good BBQ has got to be good. Mind you B & Q and Morrison's et al do their thing every year to promote BBQ so nowt new there. As they say any publicity is good blah blah..........................
Faced with 8 of the "best" home BBQers in the country I sat down with a glass of Shiraz to be enthralled. To be honest it was a heffing Joke!!!!!!!!! Produce your signature BBQ dish that describes you they said............................ Salt crusted Sea Bass WTF! It got best first challenge? that's like going to a fishing contest and bringing up a bike wheel and winning heaviest catch!!!!!
The outdoor challenge ................ How many comments of "I have never cooked with Lamb before" and these people are the best???? best at what?????? Or on the one on one challenge "Your BBQ challenge dish will be.... Salmon?????? Its a BBQ for gods sake so give them meat; very unfair for the contestants
Well OK its a BBQ and you get salmon, what's your best bet.......? make crisps out of the skin and serve raw, really??? I honestly cant see people dashing to Asda for a side of salmon to make skin crisps for the kids can you? It only takes 12 minutes to cook salmon, quick marinade and few oak pellets on indirect coals and you have a winner why was is it so hard after all they are the best?
And what's with the noncey preeesentation on a plate? Its Meat its a BBQ its not meant to have wilted scallions and a bone sticking out of the a ground made up of noodles and shoots to emulate Jurassic pork!
Bless them but they just didn't have enough time, at least on GB bake off they knew they needed hours to prepare a dish so why not with BBQ Champ????? The cowboy was getting the idea but he was a bit rawhide! LOL! yet I think he came first overall for raw chicken? switched off when our guy who served "raw salmon" as part of a BBQ dish got kicked off ha ha!
And where was the health guys when they started making pork sausage outdoors in that heat??????
They must have paid Richman a fortune to accept this and who was the guy with the teeth? I will watch it for the laugh but its not exactly going to encourage to any potential serious BBQer's now is it?
I hope none of these folk are wanting to run or have their own businesses as their cred will be well down
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