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HowToBBQRight

The BBQ Ninja, Royal Oak Charcoal and Cooking a Whole Gator

HowToBBQRight

Malcom Reed

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

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on the HowToBBQRight Podcast, we talk to Craig Verhage about how he joined the legendary Ubon’s BBQ team (2:56), where “The BBQ Ninja” originated (7:04) and the experience of Food Network’s Chopped Grill Masters (10:20). Then we talk about Craig’s new job with Royal Oak Charcoal (18:46) and how Royal Oak chooses their sponsored teams (22:48). Then we talk about cooking gator (29:32)! First we talk to Craig about how he hunts gators (32:24), how he learned to cook gator (36:25) and using Turkey Brine for gator (39:59) and why Malcom didn’t use Jolene (43:43). Then we get Craig’s famous chicken wing recipe (46:34). 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Malcolm Reed's How to Barbecue Right, a podcast where we talk about barbecue,

0:06.1

share recipes, and discuss all things delicious.

0:09.5

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

0:14.0

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

0:17.4

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

0:22.9

and we got a guest with us, Mr. Craig Verhaga, the barbecue ninja himself.

0:28.9

How's it going, Craig, man?

0:30.2

Man, thanks for having me, Malcolm.

0:31.8

I'll tell you, it's going really, really well and wonderful job on the last name

0:36.1

pronunciation.

0:37.2

Oh, thanks.

0:38.3

Very impressive.

0:39.5

As a matter of fact, I think that's the second time that's ever been pronounced, right?

0:43.7

But no, no, it's, everything's going good, good as it can in the new world that we're living in.

0:50.8

And, you know, so just trying to make the best of every situation that's right

0:56.0

well we are fresh off you you came in that's right that's the best attitude right yeah it's the only one

1:02.9

you can't have so we asked me and craig have been wanting to do something together for a while

1:09.0

and so we kind of had to keep postponing it or schedules

1:13.5

would get off but um we got the opportunity to do a gator video and that's what we cooked it

1:19.7

we cooked it last week and then we're going to recording uh craigs here we're going to record this

1:24.1

podcast so uh we're going to that video is this is the podcast going to air after

1:28.9

the fact show this podcast will come out after the video so so so so we cook the gator but we're going to do

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