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BBQ Farm Competition Team

The BBQ Farm men started their own competition team out of boredom — barrel smokers, Dreamfire® grills and the KCBS spirit.

The BBQ Farm men started their own competition team out of boredom, too. You can only tag along with other teams for so long..

Their competition artillery is made up of barrel smokers and reliable Dreamfire® ceramic grills. The team is Meelis Oi, also known as Ribi, and Andrus, our host.

The BBQ Farm competition team — Ribi and Andrus

The team is young, but their strengths are drive and precision. Their weakest point is brisket, which neither of them likes to eat at all — which makes it rather hard to guess what the winning version should taste like. But there's no way around it: brisket is the fourth, royal cut you have to cook at every KCBS competition. Time to learn!

Winning the rib competition in Vienna earned the team a place at a masterclass competition in the USA. And thanks to some bureaucratic bungling it turned out that the Vienna results had been confirmed for their sister team, Dreamfire BBQ Team, by mistake, so de jure BBQ Farm Team lost the right to take part. Well, so it goes — we'll simply have to try again.

What is KCBS?

KCBS, the Kansas City Barbeque Society, is the “football association” of the BBQ world — they set the rules and keep the competitions fair. It is the largest organisation in the world running and regulating BBQ competitions, writing the international rules and training official BBQ judges.

KCBS focuses on American-style “low & slow” barbecue, judging the look, taste and texture of the meat, and it brings together professional teams and hobbyists from all over the world. Official website: kcbs.us.

See where we're grilling this season

Festivals, KCBS competitions and our own Pudru ja Kapsad — all in one calendar.

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