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Re: Barbeque Judging

  •  09-16-2010, 7:34 AM

    Re: Barbeque Judging

    How about a follow-up to my previous follow-up...

    Here are a couple corrections to my previous post on judging: 

    The Memphis Barbecue Network (MBN) training took approximately 5 hours and involved a pre-test, lectures, demonstrations from a cooking team (just happened to be the reigning WORLD CHAMPION for MBN - "Yazoo's Delta Q"!!!), practical exercise (blind judging shoulder), and a final exam.  Rather strenuous, but well worth it!!!  Certification with MBN involves taking the training and then judging at least once in each of the three categories at a minimum of two events.  I was fortunate enough to be selected to judge both the "shoulder - on-site" and the "Hog - on-site" at the Time Warner BBQ & Blues festival in Charlotte.  Now I only need "Ribs - blind" at one more MBN competition in order to qualify for Certified Barbecue Judge with MBN.

    Most of what I previously wrote for the North Carolina Barbecue Society (NCBS) is correct; however, they just sanctioned their first competition in Cary about a month ago.  Jim Early tells me that he anticipates that they will sanction "a couple" competitions next year, but so far they have only ever sanctioned one event.


    Tom (aka "Another_Q_Lover" & "BBQ.TOM")
    CMJ w/ KCBS
    CBJ w/ MBN, NCPC, NCBS, & NCBBQA
    OBJ w/ BBQ Critic.com
    CTC w/ KCBS
    Pitmaster and Chef - 4 Lil' Pigs Competition Barbecue Team
    Author of "A 'Q' Review"
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