Competition Chicken & Starting a BBQ Food Truck
HowToBBQRight
Malcom Reed
4.8 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week on the HowToBBQRight Podcast, we talk with Eric Lee from Fire Dancer BBQ about his winning Competition Chicken Recipe (4:18), his competition cooking timeline (9:03) and how he met Malcom over beer and Fire Ants (0:41). Then we talk BBQ Food Trucks! (21:32) Eric talks about how he created his rubs (22:20), the license and regulations to starting your own food truck (24:53), and the strategy behind selling out of BBQ each day (32:56). Then we quickly talk about The American Royal that's happening this weekend (53:08).
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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. |
| 0:09.5 | And now here's your host, Malcolm and Rochelle Reed. |
| 0:13.7 | Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm your host, Malcolm Reed, joined by my lovely wife, Miss Southern Shell. and we got a guest today, Shell, Mr. Eric Lee, the fire dancer. What's going on, everybody? Thanks for coming by, Eric. Yeah, thanks for stopping by. You stopped by earlier this morning, and we cooked competition chicken. We did. We did. Thanks for having having me it was a blast uh really like what |
| 0:38.6 | y'all got going on here it's cool oh we appreciate it man i guess we go back you're a mississippi |
| 0:43.6 | native turns out from brandon is that where you well i wouldn't say native i uh was moved to |
| 0:50.7 | to mississippi and byram right outside of jackson so yeah okay i was forced to go to Mississippi, but I left and went back up to Arkansas. |
| 0:58.4 | Well, we'll still claim me since you're cooking so good. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm telling everybody you're from Mississippi. |
| 1:04.0 | There you go. |
| 1:05.1 | But you've been, man, I guess we met each other out doing barbecue competitions. |
| 1:09.8 | KCBS, right? |
| 1:10.8 | We did. We did. |
| 1:11.4 | We did. |
| 1:11.7 | I think the first memory I have is we were over at Ashland, Mississippi, and the fire ants |
| 1:19.0 | were running crazy over there. |
| 1:21.3 | I think that's the first time we actually spent, and that's been seven, eight years ago |
| 1:25.0 | when we sat there and just fought fire ants all day long. I remember it, man. I think that was one of the fairgrounds ones when they had it there, wasn't it? With one port of John. Yeah, with one for the whole, for the whole contest and everybody there. Everybody, yeah. The carnival people and everything, right? It's crazy. It was crazy. Good times, though. Good times. |
| 1:44.2 | I miss that contest, man. |
| 1:45.3 | That was one of the first ones that we started doing KCBS-wise, and it'd been around a long time. |
| 1:45.7 | They had a couple over there, if I remember. We did the one in the spring, too. They had one, like, they called the Ashland Spring Fest, and it was like on down on the corner down there in this dirt field. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah. |
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