Zephyrhills 2nd Annual Pigz in Z’Hills BBQ & Blues Event

On October 29th, the Greater Zephyrhills Chamber of Commerce will be hosting its 2nd Annual Pigz in Z’Hills BBQ & Blues Competition – a Florida Bar-B-Que Association sanctioned event to benefit local area youth and education programs.

Last year’s event catered to 3,000 attendees, with 13 professional cook teams and vendors who sold out of everything they brought to cook. I don’t have to tell you that leaving with food still in your vending trailer is a major downer, so the promise of “sold out” signs hanging by Saturday afternoon is a major plus!

About the 2011 Zephyrhills Annual Pigz in Z’Hills BBQ & Blues Event

As the name suggests, BBQ & Blues features a friendly BBQ competition amidst a background of the blues music. Attendees will have opportunities to sample the culinary creations of both local and out-of-town BBQ chefs while sipping on a glass of wine or cold beer at the “Swine Terrace.” Kids can play at the Kidz Zone or peruse the rows of arts & crafts tables while Grandma and Grandpa take a stroll through memory lane at the classic car show.

When all is said and done, there’s something for everyone at Pigz in Z’Hills!

The event is already receiving extensive coverage through our media partnership with The Tampa Tribune /News Channel 8 / Tbo.com. And, following the 2010 inaugural event’s overwhelming success, the review board of the Florida Bar-B Que-Association approved Pigz in Z’Hills as a sanctioned competition, in effect a grade-A stamp of approval by the experts. The FBA’s backing is certain to bring even more teams and bigger crowds in 2011!

Event Details

When: Saturday, October 29th, 10:00am – 8:00pm
Where: Charles Krusen Memorial Field, Zephyrhills Florida, Alston Avenue, east of US 301, at intersection of 20th Street (Adjacent to the Zephyrhills Water Bottling plant)

Contact Info:

Greater Zephryhills Chamber Pigz Committee, email: director@zephyrhillschamber.org

Event Website: http://www.zephyrhillschamber.org/

Fax: 813-783-6060

Phone: (813) 782-1913

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Popular BBQ Smokers and Gear

Here we are again with our quarterly update on what readers of the BBQ Smoker Site find most useful in terms of BBQ Smokers, BBQ Books, BBQ Videos, and BBQ Gear! For those of you not familiar with this series of posts, I take an inventory of the BBQ Smokers, BBQ Gear, and BBQ Accessories our readers here at the BBQ Smoker Site find most useful over a given quarter.

The number and types of BBQ Smokers and related BBQ tools available out there today is stunning if not all out overwhelming! I field questions all the time about what BBQ smokers, grills, books on BBQ, and BBQ accessories are best. Well, aside from the reviews you read online, it’s helpful to see what folks who share your common interests think of these items.

Obviously, I do make a little bit of money for referring folks to Amazon, which helps with hosting costs, travel a little gas money to cover trips to different BBQ judging events, etc. If you find items you feel you might want to check out, I do ask that you consider buying them via links from this blog.

Thanks so much for your readership, and I hope you come back to these pages for information often! The following is a collection of the most purchased BBQ smokers and gear purchased by our readers on Amazon for July through September, 2011. Keep in mind as you look through these lists of BBQ smokers, tools, and accessories that Christmas is just around the corner!

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Popular BBQ Books

Once again, Myron Mixon’s Recipes Made Simple took the top spot this quarter, with farm more sales than any of the other BBQ Books my readers bought this time around. We posted about this book here, and it’s no surprise that Myron is leading the pack, given that he as hall but become the face of American BBQ today. Chef Paul Kirk’s Championship Barbecue Sauces took a distant second place in purchases this quarter, with several titles going out to those who clearly know his honored place in American BBQ lore.

I love that a few of my readers picked up some sausage meat smoking books this time around – namely Home Production of Quality Meats and Sausages, and The Art of Making Fermented Sausages. If you have the time and inclination to begin making your own sausage at home, these two books provide a good foundation for getting up and running with it. Of course, if you’re in the Central Florida area, and have some wild game or livestock to process, Baxter Troutman’s Chop-N-Block meat processing shop can fix you right up with some excellent sausages! Heck, they’ll even pick up your kill or slaughtered animal for free if it’s within a 10 mile radius of Winter Haven, FL!

Popular BBQ DVDs

This is a short category, but one that bears mention. This quarter, readers of the BBQ Smoker Site enjoyed the following BBQ DVDs:

Popular BBQ Smokers

A bit of a short list for BBQ Smokers this go ’round, but as usual the Weber Smokey Mountain Cookers and Bradley Electric Smokers made the list. Bradley holds its place as my readers’ favorite electric smokers – and who can argue with the WSMs as a purchase? I see them at KCBS and FBA competitions all the time. In fact, with fuel prices up, some teams are starting to cook on them – leaving their bigger rigs at home!

Popular BBQ Accessories

This is always a fun category, as guys … and gals… love their BBQ related toys! I was pleased to see the Cast Iron Grate by 4GrillersJoy / Craycort make it in this quarter, as they get nothing but awesome reviews! I know several BBQ Bloggers (Chris at Nibble Me This and Robyn at Grill Grrrl) who use them consistently with excellent results! The Smokenator also made it in this time, and rightly so. If you have a Weber kettle grill and want to cook on it low and slow style, definitely check it out.