Foggy Bayou Boys Competition BBQ Team Heading out

chrisv - you definitely entertained us all with your BBQ competition story. so fun to read about the details, some of your technique and expectations, etc. I loved your words, but this really got me....

Already getting rave reviews from the FBBCBT VIP?s, my confidence soared as I prepared the box, and the satellite radio, programmed to the Elvis channel, boomed ?How Great Thou Art!? My goodness, divine intervention!

elvis..

the chicken thighs sounds real yummy to me! every bit of it does!

maybe we can plan a sowal bbq in the fall or some such excuse to come together, cook, drink beer, and listen to the elvis channel, on the beach or on the bay or in the street.

Chrisv, do you make your own dry rib rub?? I've been tweaking and adjusting on one for about three years now and being that you're out there in the middle of the bbq world, I'd love to get your opinion on it.

I've been through probably a dozen incarnations of my own rub, which was heavy on the six pepper blends. My wife finally convinced me to try to tone down the heat, so I'm currently using (on ribs) a mix of 50% Bad Byron's Butt Rub, 40% turbinado sugar, and 10% brown sugar. You've really got to mix it well, and keep it sealed, as the brown sugar will absorb moisture and clump.

I pretty much stick to straight Butt Rub on my butts, however.

I go through periods when I am really into concocting new rubs and sauces, and times when I focus more on the process. Now is a process time.

If you want to explore other rub options, try this rub link.

Interesting. Did you know people call me Martha?

I'm going to be obsessing about the proper plating and boxing of barbecue, now.





Columbus is my home town!

You must do that one. Columbus and Phenix City have their own little enclave of barbecue style. There is a more spicy, vinegar and mustard based hot sauce developed by a guy named Chicken Comer who used to run a barbecue place in the middle of a neighborhood in Phenix City. My earliest memory is of my dad taking me to this place -- it had a dirt floor, and the drinks came out of a coke machine (it was the kind with bottles that you opened a door and pulled out, so wonderful) and you ordered an inside plate or and outside plate, that was the menu. The butts were chopped into 3/4 inch cubes, and served with two pieces of white bread and sauce. There is nothing else in the world like Chicken Comer's sauce. I could drink it.

Today, Chicken Comer's nephew runs a Chicken Comer's in Columbus. Alas, there is a floor. It is a pretty close approximation of the meat served in the old shack, but the sauce is exactly the same. Also not to be missed -- 13th Street Barbecue in Phenix City (you'll want to order the Pork Chop Sandwich, which is not a pork chop btw), Mike and Ed's (You Can Smell Our Butts for Miles) has the best meat, but the sauce is not so great. Barbecue nirvana would be buying a bottle of sauce at Chicken Comer's and taking it over to Mike and Ed's and pouring it on their chopped pork plate. Also, even though the barbecue snobs call it city-cue, you should try Country's Barbecue -- simply to see how a really great barbecue restaurant is run. Have their banana pudding.

great story!

did someone say banana pudding??? only one of my favorite things in the entire world. the meringue kind, hot out of the oven. preferrably mom's oven.

Man... I would LOVE to taste that Chicken Comer sauce again! I lived in Columbus in the mid-80's, worked at a radio station (Kiss-FM), dated a PC girl (Theresa) and thoroughly enjoyed the BBQ! Especially Chicken Comers!
I am jonesing for that sauce...

Glad I found this interesting forum!!

small world. I used to listen to Kiss 107 every morning on the way to school.

Since we've been almost a year. When is the next Dothan BBQ comp? ChrisV: are you competing again? Inquiring minds want to know?

Oh well... I was hoping Rapunzel would come up with a source for Chicken Comer's sauce. I see where the current version of CC will be happy to sell you a case, but that's more than I can use.
Anyone out there going to Columbus anytime this summer???