No Blues in Memphis at All

December 19, 2009

Todd, Mindy, R.B. (hogging center stage in his dry rub gloves) and Alex on the set of WREG-3's Live at 9! at Peabody Place.

Even a couple of Nashville cheaters got a warm welcome over in barbecue heaven, Memphis, Tenn.

Check out our big moment on Live at 9.  Click the “Cooking Segments” tab.

So, last Sunday we packed up the car with our traveling cheater pulled pork kit and rolled acrss Tennessee on I-40.  The pimped-up flaming slow cooker and big cooler raised eyebrows at the front desk when we checked in.  The dudes who rode up with us in the elevator took one look and wondered aloud about the party in our room.  When we told them about cheating, one said “In Memphis?  That’s a tough sell, but it is cold outside…”

After roaming around Beale Street and saying hey to our fellow Kansas City Certified Barbecue judge, Silky O’Sullivan, at his institution, we returned to the room/indoor barbecue pit to enjoy some Sunday Night Football on the flat screen knowing we needed to gear down for an early start.

At 4 am, R.B. turned on the slow cooker to rewarm our smoked pork butt for the 9 am show.  Wrapped tightly in foil on low, it reheated like a champ.  Smelled fantastic and pulled beautifully.  In fact, the barbecue-loving morning camera crew and show producers devoured cheater pulled pork sandwiches for breakfast (and lunch).  So much for anti-liquid smoke baggage.

Now that we’re back home and have had a chance to review tapes (and critique Mr. Nervous’ set hogging performance), we know next time to say a word about R.B.’s goofy surgical gloves.  And Min has learned to use her pointy elbow a bit more if R.B. starts edging her out again.

Before show time, R.B. secretly plots to push Min to the background.

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