Lenoir City 2009

We really enjoyed doing the Lenoir contest again this year as it gave us the oportunity to spend time with our friends and teamates "Vern (Jose) & Helen Ashbrook at their home in Maryville, Tn both before and after the contest. They are the best host you could every hope to find. I have heard a lot of teams say, "if you think you turned in great meat, you probably won't do well and if you thought you turned in bad meats you probably did much better than expected". It sure seems to play out that way a lot of times as it did this Saturday. I was very dissapointed in ribs, pork, and brisket and thought the chicken was great, but the judges thought the ribs, pork, and brisket were all better than the chicken. Anyway we finished 3rd place out of the 25 teams with a 8th in chicken, 3rd in ribs, 5th pork, 5th brisket. The really unique thing about this is that Adams Ribs (Grand Champion, Team Allegro (Reserve Grand Champion), and myself all used the Backwoods Smoker and what a testimony for this great little cooker.