Learn Competition Barbecue Strategies From Big Moe Cason - Grill Master University

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We interviewed 10 more competition barbecue teams at the Memphis in May World Championship of Barbecue Competition. Each team offers their top advice and tips for mastering your smoker. Whether you’re a backyard cook or interested in entering the competition circuit you’ll love these behind the scenes interviews.
In this installment, we took a few minutes to chat with legendary pitmaster Big Moe Cason from Des Moines, Iowa. His favorite thing about the world of BBQ is the people and the crowds. Everyone comes together and becomes part of a big barbecue family. Over the years, you get to know the people on the competition circuit and the other pitmasters. They become your friends and you get to share the love of barbecue, grilling, and smoking meats together.
Barbecue was originally a hobby of Moe’s, but it turned into his passion and way of life very quickly. He took the skills and ingredients passed down through his family from his grandmother, Margaret Cason. He still uses many of Grandma Cason’s recipes today. He taught himself to become a competitor in competition barbecue. After competing in 260 contests in 35 states, this self-taught Pitmaster knows a thing or two about how to win at barbecue. He’s won multiple Grand and Reserve Grand Championships, placed first and second place in chicken, ribs, pork, and brisket, and he has competed in Memphis in May. If that doesn’t tell you how good Big Moe Cason is at barbecue, consider his three perfect “180” scores in chicken, ribs, and pork shoulder. He also won second place sauce at the Jack Daniel’s World Championship International.
Today, Moe Cason is the head of Ponderous BBQ and you’ll see him on popular TV shows, like The Steve Harvey Show, Harry Connick’s show, and the reality show BBQ Pitmasters. He started his own line of sauces and spice rubs that work well with a variety of BBQ meats, including beef, pork, and chicken. You can also buy apparel like t-shirts and baseball hats from Big Moe Cason. He’s especially famous for cooking low-and-slow, fall-apart tender Texas style brisket. If you want to benefit from his tips and tricks for smoking the best brisket, you can find some of his online videos.
Moe’s advice to any individual wanting to get into competition BBQ is to get to know your pit. If doesn’t matter if you can afford the best quality pork, chicken, beef, or whatever you’re cooking. If you can’t cook it correctly, it won’t taste good. You have to learn to cook consistently, whether you have a few cinderblocks and a rack as your smoker or you work on a 50-thousand-dollar offset smoker. If you don’t master your pit, it doesn’t matter how much money you spend on a backyard barbecue or a competition-worthy grill. Learn to cook consistently, and it will take you far.
The best thing about barbecue is that anyone can learn to do it. Moe wasn’t culinary trained and he didn’t come from a family of competition barbecue contestants. He learned it the hard way by hard knocks and is a self-taught pitmaster. He mastered the art of barbecue, and you can too if you take the time to learn it inside and out. You’re going to have to burn some stuff up until you get it right, but you can skip all that by using the easiest way to get better at your barbecue skills: take a class. He suggests looking for a class in your area, perhaps taught by a competition barbecue winner, or read a great book. He suggests Rick Browne’s The Big Book of Barbecue Side Dishes with over 125 recipes. Although he doesn’t have too many books, he definitely has Rick Browne’s book so you should, too!
Another piece of advice from Big Moe Cason is to season meats before they go on the grill, and sauce them when they leave the heat. Sauces often contain sugars that can caramelize and burn on the hot heat of the grill, even in lower temperatures of a smoker. Don’t learn the hard way like Moe did; benefit from his skills and experience!
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OG BIG MOE MY FAVORITE

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I am going check out that book