Cowtown Cookers, Inc. is a corporation dedicated to the furtherance of barbecue, especially Kansas City style, everywhere. While licensed to operate as a caterer, Cowtown Cookers is also established to conduct sales of barbecue products and to produce and deliver in whatever form is available educational materials relating to barbecue. The World Wide Web site BBQ.COM "Smokin' the Internet" is a natural outgrowth of this company's emergence and helps to meet all the current aims of the company.
About the Web Site Cover ...
You are looking at a set of three baby back ribs cooked by me (Neil Carriker) on my Hondo Smoker in my backyard and then placed on my wife's antique platter and held by me while my uncle Clarence took the picture. The picture was then converted to digital form and superimposed with the large BBQ on the faded background. The smoker to the right is a digitally converted picture of the smoker taken while the ribs were cooking and then basically enhanced to it's current look. Thank's goes to Jeff Young for helping with the original site setup.
Neil Carriker, known mostly in the barbecue circle as "Meathead", became a member of the amateur barbecue team Cowtown Cookers in late 1983. Earlier that year, he had received a Brinkman smoker for Father's Day and it set him upon a quest for the ultimate barbecue known to man. Not to compete and produce something for sale originally, but because he loved to eat. Neil pursued all manner of barbecue vigorously. As fate would have it, a friend who just happened to be a meat cutter had just recently been to the American Royal cookoff in Kansas City and decided to begin competition barbecuing. Learning of Neil's passion for barbecue, John Schlosser, head chef of Cowtown Cookers, recruited Neil for the team and the rest would become instantaneous barbecue legend. The team proceeded to win competitions and high rankings for the next several years including becoming the only team to ever win the Kansas State Championship twice (now I hear it is 4 times)! Once, a member of the team left to join a professional team (which hadn't done well in competitions to that point) and the pro team, now cooking Cowtown style, and Cowtown Cookers placed first and second overall at the American Royal BBQ Cookoff.
While those early years of barbecue were full of excitement, they weren't full of money. In fact, they cost the members of the team much of their personal money with each new competition. Wanting to move into an area of barbecue where he could eventually make some money and to preserve the award winning name, Neil registered the name Cowtown Cookers and incorporated it with the state of Missouri in May 1990. The amateur team has continued to compete and maintain its success.
Cowtown Cookers, Inc. is still dedicated to the basic principles that made for championship barbecue and will continue to carry as its motto "Had wuk mak gud Bar-B-Q"!
You can still call me "Meathead" and I'll answer your questions E-Mailed to me at webmaster@cowtowncookers.com. If you have a good tip, a method of cooking worth reviewing or reading by our patrons, feel free to pass it along the same way. I cannot promise that all submissions will be used and there is no money involved, but I will mention the source for those I do use and reserve the right to edit all submissions as this site is designed to meet standards that I uphold for this pasttime by my company.
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