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HowToBBQRight

Ambassador BBQ Crawl , Drum Smoker Tips & The BEST Cuts of Wagyu

HowToBBQRight

Malcom Reed

Food, Leisure, Arts

4.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on the HowToBBQRight Podcast, we're packing up and heading to Mountain Home, Arkansas, for Ark-tober Fest (00:20)! Malcom's not doing so hot lately in our Let's Get To Cookin' Community Pick'em League (04:10)... Last weekend, we hosted our Ambassador BBQ Crawl and it was an absolute blast (08:07)! If you ever find yourself in the Memphis area craving authentic Texas-style BBQ, make sure to stop by Bain's BBQ — it's a must-try (24:01). After wrapping up the crawl, we took a trip down to Venice, Louisiana and enjoyed some killer fish and drinks (26:30)! We've all tasted pineapple flavors on ribs... but have you ever seen someone wrap an entire rack of ribs around a pineapple? (32:38) Wild stuff. If you're craving a classic pulled beef sandwich, what's the best cut of beef to use? We break it down (36:01). We also share why the Primo Ceramic Grill could be your new favorite backyard cooker (37:45), and why we're seriously craving some more fresh tuna (38:30). Cooking on a drum smoker for the first time? Here are our top tips for beginners who want to master the drum (41:36). Why is everyone suddenly using maple syrup in their injections and wraps? We've got thoughts (45:55).Thinking about buying Wagyu beef for the first time? Here are the top cuts to look out for (47:11). If your pellet grill shuts off overnight while cooking a pork butt, what should you do? We've got answers (51:13). And finally, if you want to serve brisket for dinner on Friday, but save the burnt ends for Sunday, how do you pull it off? (53:45).

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Malcolm Reed's How to Barbecue Right, a podcast where we talk about barbecue, share recipes, and discuss all things delicious.

0:09.6

And now here's your host, Malcolm and Rochelle Reed.

0:12.5

Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast.

0:15.9

I'm your host, Malcolm Reed, joined by my lovely, talented wife, Miss Southern Shell.

0:20.2

Tyler's out today, but we got

0:21.6

Jacob with us over on the board. What's happening? You think we're going to make Jacob talk today?

0:26.8

Yeah. Say, what's up, Jake?

0:29.6

Yeah, and y'all, I'm killing my anonymity.

0:33.1

Who's Jacob? Well, it's been a crazy couple days. Hey, we had a good time. Last weekend, we did an ambassador event. Me and you had to make a quick run down to the coast. Man, we went to a good restaurant. Yeah. We'll talk about that today. And then we're right back here at it and fixing a run right back out of here again to go to Arkansas. And we got a little event Saturday.

0:55.5

It's at the Raps Barron Brewery.

0:57.6

Yes.

0:58.3

Mountain Home, Arkansas.

1:00.0

It's a big event that they do called Arctoberfest.

1:04.1

Arctober.

1:04.8

Arctober Fest.

1:07.0

So it's kind of a beer, a tasting.

1:11.3

Is it? I really don't know. Beer centric event. I've been to the brewery a couple times and it's a cool spot. And Mountain Home they've got it. It's almost like a little town square, but there's all these little restaurants and things around. It's kind of like a community activity place where they go and they do different stuff, I imagine, throughout the year. but they're going to block the whole thing off this weekend and have a beer fest.

1:30.8

It is October, Arctober. Arctober. And we, so we're doing something kind of cool that we've never done before because we've done, you know, a lot of like where you pass out barbecue. We've done sandwiches. We've done, I don't know, flatters. Sliders, yeah. We've done

1:47.5

I don't know. Sausers and cheese crackers. We've done all kinds of stuff. But this, and we've done

1:53.1

tacos before, but they were like chicken tacos and yeah. It's more of a Mexican themed taco, yeah.

1:58.5

We're doing barbecue, like Southern barbecue on a taco show. Yeah. I think it's going to be great. I do, too. There's nothing wrong with it. It's going to have a little slaw, but it's not going to be like a traditional slaw. It's going to be more like a vinegar slaw. Yeah. To give it to cut the rendered fatty goodness of the pool port. So we're going to have a pullport, slaw.

2:36.2

Tortilla. the rendered fatty goodness of the pulled port. So we're going to have a pool port, a slaw, a tortilla. A tortilla, and then, you know, you can put whatever barbecue sauce you on it. Yeah. So it's like a barbecue sandwich on a taco. Yeah. Which I think's a great idea. Yeah, yeah. And it makes a great little walking thing. You know, you can grab it. You can give them in a little boat. Folks can walk around, grab it, try some stuff.

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