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Get Widgetized!

Would you like to get your own dynamic rankings widget like the one displayed above?

As long as your team has a Top 10 Overall finish in a KCBS sanctioned contest this year, you can get a custom widget that matches your site's design here.

See the following widgetized sites for examples:

EggsEquetive Council
3 Eyz BBQ
Buster Dog BBQ
Meadow Valley BBQ
Reservoir Hogs
R Butts R Smokin
Good Smoke BBQ
BBQr's Delight
Bare Bones BBQ Team
Stu's Q BBQ Team
Early Bird BBQ
Wicked Que
Son Seekers BBQ

Featured Recipe

From The Recipe Exchange
Bacon Bowl Breakfast

Take an extra Lipitor and indulge in this incredibly hearty breakfast. The creative presentation will be a topic of conversation for many mornings to come.

Bacon Bowl Breakfast

See the entire recipe and process along with pictures here.


Do It Yourself BBQ Team Rankings

So you think you can improve upon our Power Rankings system? Now you can test your own methodology against our data. Use our new rankings engine to design and create a BBQ team ranking system based on your criteria. Click here to visit the Do It Yourself BBQ Team Rankings generator.


KCBS Contest Statistics

Using our contest database, we've compiled some interesting statistics regarding completed KCBS sanctioned contests. Click here to view our KCBS Sanctioned Contests Statistics.


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The Pickled Pig

Though we may occasionally act contrary in manner, we are not always pigs. The Pickled Pig is a competition BBQ team that hales from Overland Park, Kansas.

We enjoy the thrill of the hunt, a swill of good beer, fine whisky or rum and slow-smoked BBQ. Our over-indulgent tendencies may appear to be "Pig-like" but we tend to think that the only good pig is either smoked or Pickled! Given our choices in the matter, we choose the latter.

We operate this site primarily to promote one of our favorite passions, good BBQ. We also want to promote our BBQ team, share team information with our friends and supporters, and interact with fellow BBQ enthusiasts.

Whether you're a fellow competitor, certified judge, BBQ novice, fan of The Pig, or just plain love to eat BBQ, we want you to feel welcome here and encourage your participation. We're not good enough to be secretive so we'll gladly share everything we know and hope you'll do the same for the good of the sport. Make sure and check out our Online Community forums.


NEW!!! KCBS Awards Map Widget


Would you like to add a customized, interactive, and dynamic mapping widget to your web site that allows visitors to see exactly where you've been racking up the wins in KCBS awards? The Pickled Pig can help make that happen. We track and update all of the data, and we've done the programming on the back end. All you have to do is copy and paste some HTML from our site to yours.

As long as your team has a Top 10 Overall finish in a KCBS sanctioned contest this year, you can get a custom widget that matches your site's design here.

See how the following teams use this new widget to improve their site:

Rhythm n' Que
Screamin' Nite Hog
Smoke Me Tender
Son Seekers BBQ Team


KCBS Team Awards Map

Do you want to see where the hottest teams are winning their awards? The new interactive Team Awards Map will visually show you where winning teams are getting the job done. Click here to view the Team Awards Map.


Interactive KCBS Contest Map

See what contests are happening in your area during any given week. This interactive map can make contest schedule planning a little easier and is a convenient way to locate contest information and results. Click here to view the map.


Featured Book

John Willingham's World Champion Bar-B-q by John Willingham

Willingham, who competes in contests nationwide, moves in a subculture where serious barbecuers guard their recipes like the most valuable of trade secrets. He defines barbecue, in contrast to grilling or roasting, as cooking meat at 250 degrees or lower for a long time with indirect heat. He encourages 'cuers to build their own cookers and to use wood fuel rather than charcoal. No gas, please.

Recipes (more than 150) kick off with starters and breads (using mostly indoor methods) and reach a section called Slow-Cooked Heaven - Real Barbecue, which contains Willingham's World-Champion Ribs: beef, pork or lamb rib slabs marinated and massaged with a dry rub, refrigerated for 12 hours and cooked at 250 degrees for up to five hours.


BBQ Fun Facts

  • In the late 1600s, French Haitians described open fire cooking as "barbe a queue," literally translated as "from whiskers to tail."
  • English writer Aphra Behn was the first to use the word in a literary sense when he wrote in 1699, "Let’s barbicu this fat rogue."
  • Three out of four households in the United States own barbecue grills.
  • In the United States, the most popular holidays for barbecuing are the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Labor Day, respectively.
  • A barbecue is called a braai in South Africa, a churrasco in Brazil, and a barbie in Australia.
  • People in St. Louis, Missouri, consume more barbecue sauce per capita than people of any other city in the United States.

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BBQ Team Power Rankings

Who's hot on the BBQ competition circuit this year? Find out how your favorite teams fair in our Power Rankings. As the season begins to wind down, you'll want to know which teams will make our Top 25 list. And, you might just want to know how your team stacks up against the competition. We've evaluated every completed KCBS competition and have scored the teams in the Overall, Chicken, Ribs, Pork, and Brisket categories. Every team who has finished in the Top 10 in at least one category in one contest is ranked here!


KCBS Contest Results

We've put the power of relational databases to work on our new KCBS Contest Results feature. Click on any team listed in the results and see a team history of KCBS Top 10 finishes in each category. Click here to browse our KCBS Contest Results listing.




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