The most spectacular BBQ you will ever taste
rarely comes from restaurants or backyard events. The most
delicious, tender, and succulent BBQ comes from meat cooked during BBQ
competitions
January 9th, 2010 - I was really
surprised to find out my BBQ student on Jan 9 was noneother than the legendary Dave Anderson of the
180+Famous Daves BBQ restaurant chain. Heshowed up incognito from Minnesota and surprised the heck out
of me<blog>
UPDATE
Feb 4, 2010 -
Episode #8 Finale - Texas<blog>
UPDATE Dec 13,
2009 - Woo Hoo! We finish
2nd overallin the 2009 Calif. Team
Of the Year (TOY) standings
with 1st TOY in Ribs and 2nd TOY in Pork!
Amazingly at the national level,
we finish 24th among 4,500+ teams in the nation! It's been an
awesome year!
UPDATE Dec 10, 2009 - Episode #2
- Murphysboro<blog>
UPDATE Dec 2, 2009
-
Low tech grill meets high tech computer with Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ
challenger
Video1; Clip of freak thunderstorm in Episode #1
Video2;
Interview2 with Executive Producer John Markus,by
DivaQ;
Exclusive DivaQ
Interview w Harry
Update Nov 24,
2009 - TLC BBQ Pitmasters
website launched;
Interview1 with Executive Producer John Markus (Emmy award
winning writer on "The Cosby Show" and "Taxi")
by
John Dawson
Update
Oct 10, 2009 -
We're
on hiatus competing in California Sep-Nov as we're shooting 8 episodes
of a new reality TV show called BBQ Pitmasters. Season premier is
10/9pm C, Dec 3, on TLC channel. It follows 7 pitmasters as they
travel around the country competing in large contests for cash and
bragging rights. We're having the time of our life and have so many adventures. Here's a shout-out to my producers and
camera crew. Stay tuned!
UPDATE Aug 29, 2009
- Another 14 students graduate from the Slap Yo' Daddy
BBQ Pitmaster 101
Class; AVERAGE CUSTOMER REVIEW
(34 customer reviews)
UPDATE Aug 16, 2009
- We won
a Reserve Champion, 1st Chicken, multiple awards, and survived the
triple KCBS West Coast State Championships in Fairfield California.
<Blog>
Update
Aug 1, 2009 -
Vista Smokin Q Classic
- We won 1st place in Ribs, 2nd in
Pork, and 6th overall at the KCBS-sanctioned First Annual Vista Smokin Q
Classic State Championship.
I made Seared Ahi Tuna w Maui Onion Dressing for the Friday potluck as
we left for Maui on vacation after<Blog>
UPDATE July 18, 2009
- Another
14 students graduate from the
BBQ 101 Pitmaster
Class in Diamond Bar;
AVERAGE CUSTOMER REVIEW
(34 customer reviews)
UPDATE July 11, 2009
-
Wild West BBQ Bash - We won 1st Place in
the Tri Tip Championship in Santa Maria, California, the BBQ tri tip
capital of the world. Considering the depth and multigeneration
experience of the local champion teams, restaurants, and caterers who
showed up in full force, I've been told it's a very special win.
In the main IBCA contest, we took 4th overall with 1st in Brisket and
5th in Ribs. We had an awesome time thanks to the hospitality of
the Santa Maria folks who treated all of us so well.
<Blog & Videos>
Update
July 4, 2009 -
Way Out West BBQ Championship, Stockton, CA- We won our 3rd consecutive Grand Champion
and 1st place in all four meat categories.
This will give us
our forth entry for the Jack Daniels draw where one GC team from
California will be invited to Lynchburg, Tennessee, for what is
considered the Super Bowl of BBQ contests.KCBS
officials from Kansas City have confirmed that this is the first time
in America that a team has accomplished this feat at a State
Championship and Team of the Year (TOY) event.There is now talk that Mark and I might get invited to Kansas
City to be recognized during the KCBS annual awards ceremony
<Blog>
UPDATE June 27, 2009
- 14
students complete the BBQ 101 Pitmaster Class in Diamond Bar. One
goes on the win Reserve Grand Champion two weeks later at the
Wild West BBQ Bash <Blog1><Blog 2 - Comments>
UPDATE June 6, 2009
- We're
on a roll and won our second consecutive Californian State Grand Championship at
the Bakersfield Biggest Baddest BBQ Contest. This will give us our
third entry for the Jack Daniels draw where one GC team from California
will be invited to Lynchburg, Tennessee, for what is considered the
Super Bowl of BBQ contests. With the Reserve
Grand Champion from Kansas City sandwiched between these two events,
we're amazed with our recent successes!
<Blog>
UPDATE May 24, 2009
-
Slap Yo' Daddy BBQ from Diamond Bar, California, won Reserve Grand
Champion (2nd overall) in the BBQ Mecca of Kansas City against a large
contingent of professional BBQ teams in a field of 161 teams. The Great
American Barbecue 2009 (GAB) is one of the largest and most prestigious
BBQ contests in America and is hosted in Kansas City annually. Slap Yo'
Daddy BBQ was California's Best NewTeam 2008 and had won a
California State Grand Championship last year
to earn an invitation to the GAB.
<Blog>
<Notley Que's Blog about us>
<Press Release>
<Inland Valley Daily Bulletin A7>
Update
May 17, 2009 -
29 Palms Salute to Marine Corps
- It was a privilege to
help cook and serve 10,000 burgers and 4,000
hotdogs as part of the Calif. BBQ Assoc. participation in Salute
2009 to honor our brave men and women of the military
UPDATE May 9,
2009 - Woo Hoo! We win Grand Champion at the Qu'en for Kids
BBQ Cookoff State Championship amid 33 teams some from as far as
Arizona! <Blog><Pictures>
UPDATE Mar 3, 2009: Unfortunately my January 2009
Bobby Flay Grill It audition tape did not make the final 13 chosen for
the 2009 season. I prepared
two knockout dishes: Grilled Lobster and
Seafood Paella with Chorizo and Saffron, and Seared Ahi
Tuna with Maui Onion Dressing. I want to thank
you all from the
bottom of my heart for supporting me by voting, commenting on my video,
and sending it to all your friends! Maybe better luck next year!
UPDATE Feb 28,
2009 - Catering for
Hollywood celebrity Birthday Party.
My BBQ buddy Gary Notley partnered with me to do a birthday catering gig
for a hundred guests including Keanu Reeves, star in
my favorite movie series the Matrix trilogy <Blog
w Pics&Video>
Welcome to the Slap Yo Daddy BBQ website. We are a
two-person BBQ team from Diamond Bar, California. We
compete primarily in California against the big guns on the California,
Arizona, and Nevada professional BBQ contest circuit. We are weekend backyard BBQ
guys with day jobs who use simple equipment including two Weber
bullet smokers purchased off
Amazon for $195 each.
In our first year, we have been very successful as a
rookie team considering we had no prior experience. For 2008, we
competed in 9 sanctioned contests and won one
Grand Champion and one
Reserve Champion, and several 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
places in
Chicken, Pork, Ribs and Brisket (see Awards).
By year end 2008, we earned enough points (like PGA points for Tiger
Woods) to win the coveted
Best
New BBQ Team of the year for California
called the ROY 2008 (Rookie Of the Year).
Rookie teams have ®
by their name.
More importantly, we have had
so much fun, collected some amazing memories, developed many new
friendships, and met many people including the special privilege of
donating proceeds and serving BBQ to our brave military men and women,
and their families (see picture below from the
December 2008
Sunburst Cookoff)