Talkin’ Texas BBQ with Gulf Coast Smoke

HowToBBQRight

Malcom Reed

Malcomreed, Howtobbqright, Bbq, Food, Barbecue, Leisure, Arts

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today on the HowToBBQRight Podcast, we’ve got a VERY special guest all the way from Texas, Alonzo Cantu of Gulf Coast Smoke (00:24)! Gulf Coast Smoke wasn’t ALWAYS as big as it is today, here’s Alonzo’s humble beginnings (04:35). In the Texas competition circuit, judging works a LITTLE different than it does in the MBN (09:33)... When it comes to cooking up a grand champion worthy piece of meat, Alonzo is a firm believer in keeping it simple (17:06). After he’s done tearing up the circuit, here’s what’s going down on the Gulf Coast Smoke channel (21:01)! We’ve seen a LOT of styles of chicken wings, but these brined chicken wings Alonzo whipped up are NEXT LEVEL (27:47)! Behind every great channel is an even greater team keeping everyone in line (29:28). You can cook ANYTHING on a pellet grill, and being outside makes it EVEN BETTER (32:29). Looking for a new grill to add to your arsenal? Primo Ceramic Grills has you covered (34:24)! Alonzo cooks a LOT of food, but these are his FAVORITES to throw on the grill (35:09). We often sing the praises of Outlaw smokers, but they are WORTH the money (38:49)! What are the MOST popular pits for competition cooking in Texas (42:46)? Texas has a LOT of good BBQ, but these are Alonzo’s TOP places to grab a bite (48:01). Finally, Gulf Coast Smoke has more than just killer videos, they’ve got some AWESOME rubs for y’all to check out too (52:46)!

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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.
0:12.4	Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast.
0:15.2	I'm your host, Malcolm Reed.
0:17.0	Joined by my lovely wife, Miss Southern Shell.
0:19.0	She's on my left today instead of across from me, because's going on, Chil? We have a special guest today. I do. Alonzo Cantoe from Gulf Coast Smoke. All the way from right outside Corpus Christi, Texas, right? Correct. Yes, sir. It's a long way, brother. It is a long way. It is a long way. It's been a really eventful week.
0:34.0	We were just talking about it a second ago. Somehow survived a tornado. We did. We didn't even know that it was happening. It got a little sketchy last night, didn't it? Well, you know, I wouldn't say that because I did sleep through the whole thing. But the stories this morning, they seem pretty sketchy. I ain't going to lie to you. Oh, man.
0:35.0	I got a little nervous.
0:35.6	I'm going to lie.
0:36.4	Did you really?
0:37.2	I slept in my truck.
1:27.6	Well, I still just, how everything happened. I mean, getting the text from Tyler at one in the morning, hey, are y'all okay? Not seeing that until 7.30 in the morning. Like, oh, it must have got bad. And then coming over here, all the trees that were up and, oh, it was bad. Oh, they had road shut down. Road shut down. We had to reroute the way to get back to Hernando from Citotia. It was, I've never experienced anything like it. So I think that's maybe why I was calm through the whole thing. Yeah. But, man, it was definitely different. Yeah. Yeah.
1:28.5	The power went out.
1:30.1	I guess it was like right after midnight.
1:30.7	Mm-hmm. That's what woke me up.
1:31.7	I have sleep with a CPAP. Uh-huh. And that thing cuts off. It's like suffocating you. So I come up out of it and there's no lights on. First, I'm just fighting the machines. I had all the lights off anyway.
1:25.0	And I'm over there, you know, banging on stuff.
1:27.2	Look at my phone.
1:27.8	What's my phone not working?
1:29.6	I was like, oh, the power's out.
1:30.9	And I didn't even realize it.
1:31.9	I didn't even realize it. and I'm over there, you know, banging on stuff. Look at my phone. What's my phone not working?
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