Ohio BBQ

Troop 101 in Warren, Ohio is one of the largest and longest running Boy Scout Troops in our area. With over 60 boys from all over Trumbull county, we camp once a month and have some of the best campfire cooks (ehem, me included). We just passed our 35th anniversary and we've compiled a VERY comprehensive collection of both dutch-oven and family recipes. This is not your small collection of recipes, but almost 400 tried and true dutch oven and camp-friendly dishes. The Troop is selling these books for 12 bucks a pop and for an extra 3 dollars, they'll ship them to you. I highly recommend this book, and ask that you help support our boys! Click here to order one.

After many requests and bringing our competition bbq to parties, fund-raisers and community parties we've been asked one too many times if we also do catering.

Well folks, the time has come and now CockeyeBBQ is offering the same award-winning, competition style bbq that has earned us our reputation.

We'd like to start out with low-key graduation parties, family reunions and good weather, outdoor functions but we're also available for weddings, class reunions and corporate functions.

If you're interested in speaking with my about catering your event, just give me a call at 330-369-4304 and I'll be happy to give you an estimate.

Please make sure to have your date in mind as well as an approximate number of hungry people we'll be feeding!

Yours in bbq smoke!

Erik Hoover

The Ohio BBQ Triple Crown Series is designed to promote barbecue in Ohio and encourage teams to actively compete in Ohio sanctioned KCBS competitions and to reward the best overall scoring team from three competitions.

The Triple Crown qualifiers in Ohio are;

BrickStreet BBQ
Marietta, Ohio
$10,000 in prizes
June 11th-12th
http://www.brickstreetbbq.com/site/

Ohio Veteran Barbecue Cook-Off
Kettering, Ohio
$8000 in prizes
July 9th-10th
http://www.ohiovetbbq.com/

Ohio Smoked Meat & Barbecue Festival
Nelsonville, Ohio
$10,000 in prizes
October 16th-17th
http://ohiobbq.com/

13th Annual Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Nelsonville, OH
Starts: 10/16/2009
Ends: 10/17/2009
Website: http://www.nelsonvillechamber.com
KCBS Reps: SCOTT GRINSTEAD, STEVE GRINSTEAD

Contact Information:
Jim Shumway
PO Box 276
Nelsonville, OH 45764
Phone: 740-753-4346
Fax: 740-753-1019
rockybrands@nelsonvilletv.com

Ok, so I'm working on our BBQ contest schedule for 2009. These are just a few of the contests that I'm interested in, with the dates. This is a scratchpad so it may change as the years moves on.

April 17-18
Pork In The Park - Salisbury, MD

May 23-24
Roc City Rib Fest - Rochester, NY

June 5-6
Brick Street BBQ - Marietta, Ohio
Art of BBQ - Mays Landing, NJ

June 12-13

4th Annual Jim Dandy's BBQ Cook-Off

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Sharonville, OH
Starts: 09/18/2009
Ends: 09/19/2009
Website: http://www.jimdandybbq.com
KCBS Reps: KATHY BRAZIER, PHILLIP BRAZIER

Contact Information:
Jim Emig
2343 E Sharon Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45241
Phone: 513-771-4888
Fax: 513-771-3176
jim@jimdandybbq.com

Ohio Veteran Barbecue Cook-Off

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Kettering, OH
Starts: 07/10/2009
Ends: 07/11/2009
Website: http://www.ohiovetbbq.com
KCBS Reps: KATHY BRAZIER, PHILLIP BRAZIER

Contact Information:
Jim Ferguson
2908 Valley View Drive
Fairborn, OH 45324
Phone: 937-416-7924
jlferguson@woh.rr.com

Brick Street BBQ
Marietta, OH
Starts: 06/05/2009
Ends: 06/06/2009
Website: http://www.colonytheatre.com
KCBS Reps:

Contact Information:
Hunt Brawley
222 1/2 Putnam St
Marietta, OH 45750
Phone: 740-373-0894
Fax: 740-373-0895
hbrawley@suddenlinkmail.com

Ohio State's Barbecue Club is preparing for a new special sauce. The club's Grillteam members recently partnered with the Food Industries Center and developed a new sauce that is to be taste-tested by students during the first week of December.

"The OSU Barbecue Club is inviting the entire campus out to the sensory panel evaluation," said Alex Gardner, founder of the club and a senior in finance.

"We want you to give us feedback on our sauce, so that we can develop the Barbecue Club's first official sauce," he said.

The plans are still being made; however, the Barbecue Club is setting up specific times for an evaluation lab.

The club urges students, faculty and staff to give their opinions on the sauce, and help with a taste analysis.

Well the status of this year's contest was shaky to say the least. A week or so before the contest word was that it was to be cancelled due to lack of interest and team participation.

My entry had been sent in months before, and even I was worried as I hadn't received the normal cook's packet in the mail and the website (which is normally dreadfully outdated) was in even more disarray.