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The Low & Slow Barbecue Show

142 episodes

Barbecue podcast “The Low and Slow Barbecue Show” serves up barbecue recipes, advice for smoking barbecue, and cooking barbecue stories of success - and failure! Home smokers and BBQ Pitmasters share advice - all steeped in Carolina barbecue flavor. Listen and learn how to smoke meat, the best meat to smoke, how to make Carolina barbecue sauce, and the best barbecue restaurants we love to visit - the best barbecue in North Carolina! (And maybe a few other “barbecue” places, too!) Every episode promises to share a few experiments for the next time you fire up the barbecue smoker.Barbecue meat smoking enthusiast, news journalist, and sports radio broadcaster Chigger Willard walks through the barbecue basics with guests who bring a wide variety of experiences to the barbecue world. Competitors. Restauranteurs. Fund-Raisers. Tailgaters. Moms and Dads. ALL the people who make the best barbecue share all their barbecue best.What wood do you use for meat smoking? How long should you smoke mea...

Episodes

  • · 1h 6m

    Operation BBQ Relief’s Stan Hays & Carolina BBQ Festival

    Operation BBQ Relief Founder Stan Hays and Carolina BBQ Festival Founder Lewis Donald share how the global barbecue community supports people when they are facing their greatest…

  • · 55m

    Master Blend Family Farms CEO Ronald Simmons

    Master Blend Family Farms CEO Ronald Simmons talks about his third-generation family farming business, his barbecue experience, and the ALL GAS, NO BRAKES 365 Master Blend Nation.…

  • · 38m

    Bohemian Cattle Company & Pitmaster Colby Brownlee

    The Bohemian Cattle Company is the newest agritourism getaway in the Charlotte region. Combining a pasture-to-plate cattle ranch and restaurant, a widely experienced pitmaster,…

  • · 45m

    Doxie Guy BBQ Shares Sauce Secrets

    Doxie Guy BBQ sauce maker, whole hog pitmaster, and Dachshund dog enthusiast Scott Schiffel joins the Low & Slow Barbecue to talk sauce and barbecue roots. Described as a “COVID…

  • · 49m

    Apple City BBQ Pitmaster Adam Dula

    Hear Apple City BBQ Pitmaster Adam Dula share the story of his family-owned and operated barbecue business in Taylorsville, N.C. While much of North Carolina continues to debate…

  • · 1h 1m

    Southern Smoke BBQ Pitmaster Matthew Register

    Southern Smoke BBQ Pitmaster Matthew Register returns to The Low & Slow Barbecue Show to share the story of his barbecue sauces and restaurant in Garland, N.C. Cured in Eastern…

  • · 47m

    Midwood Smokehouse Pitmaster, Matt Barry

    Visit Charlotte, N.C., today, and you’ll find a food landscape with everything you can imagine, including a diverse selection of barbecues. But at one time, Charlotte was a food…

  • · 42m

    Pitmasters: Ronald Simmons, Keith Henning, Michael Letchworth

    North Carolina barbecue comes in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. Sure, there’s always debate over Eastern Whole Hog and vinegar versus Western Pork Shoulder, red slaw, and…

  • · 49m

    Celebrating Independence with Hanna Raskin

    To mark Independence Day on the Low & Slow Barbecue Show, we talk to 2023 James Beard Foundation Award Winner Hanna Raskin. And because she is absolutely an independent voice in…

  • · 29m

    Pitmasters: Ken & Jess Hess from County Smoak

    The Carolinas hold no monopoly on great barbecue. There’s plenty of really good food being cooked low and slow all around the barbecue world. Lynchburg, Virginia is one of those…

  • · 12m

    Pitmasters: Holy City Hogs, Tank Jackson

    To make the best barbecue you’ve got to take it low and slow. If you’re making that barbecue in the Carolinas, chances are pretty good you’re cooking a pig low and slow. And if…

  • · 44m

    Pitmasters: Lewis Donald, Garren Kirkman, and Matthew Register

    If you want the best Carolina BBQ you need a low slow cooking heat source, the best quality meat… and a seasoned pitmaster. The Low & Slow Barbecue Show partnered with the…