Wayout West BBQ

July 3 - 4, 2009

Stockton, California 

This was the first Wayout West BBQ KCBS competition held in Stockton in conjunction with an ongoing event call “the taste of San Joaquin”.  It was an adventure for our team to get to this event.  Ted and Ardith were in Oregon for their son-in-laws fishing tournament the week before, so they took some extra time and toured Oregon in order to get back to Stockton by the next weekend.  Steve left Lancaster on Thursday and drove to his niece Julie and husband Rick Smith’s home in Discovery Bay as the gathering point for the team the night before the BBQ.  Toni and Ron would be flying from Ontario to Sacramento on Friday, renting a car and driving to Stockton.  The teams were asked to vend something other than their competition meat.  Steve got together with Julie and decided to do corn, but not just any old corn, we did “Brentwood sweet corn”.  Julie said it was world famous and everyone would recognize the name.  We got to the BBQ area and sure enough everyone that saw the sign commented on the “Brentwood” corn.  It was a great choice!

The day of the event was busy as usual for the turn in meats, but now we had to shuck 150 ears of corn too.  That was a lot of fun and reminded Ted and Ron of the good old days back east where they grew up.  Julie and Vicki her neighbor from Discovery Bay came for the day and turned out to be a great help with the corn and corn sales.  We couldn’t have done it without their help.

In the contest, we finished with a Reserve Grand Champion!  It was great we got 6^th in Chicken, 3^rd in Ribs, 18^th in Pull pork, and 2^nd in Brisket to finish 2^nd overall.  At this event history was made by Slap Your Daddy BBQ as they received 1^st place in every single meat category.  Amazing!

The sponsors of the BBQ event had a raffle for a smoker BBQ and Ron bought 5 tickets after the awards, they were to have the drawing shortly.  Toni had call home to get her messages, only to find that Ron had won the smoker.  The organizers had called San Bernardino to tell Ron that he had won.  So they went back to the awards area and sure enough he had the winning ticket.  It’s a beautiful smoker with all the bells and whistles.  Now the challenge was to get it back home.  We found a way to put it on the back of Steve’s BBQ trailer and Ted had car straps, so he, Steve, and Ron cinched it down.  It rode perfectly all the way back home.  It was a lucky day indeed!

Special Thanks to Ben Lobenstein and Ric Gilbert as the organizers for this event along with Kelly and Kathleen MacIntosh who were the representatives.  What a great team to run this super event.