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Answer--it must include at least two different types of beans.

My Pitboss is a real turd I swear

I did bbq comps years ago. I had fun because I liked the guys I was cooking with. Was a lot of work and got sort of expensive. We had kids and I quit doing it.

Answer--it must include at least two different types of beans.
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My standard chili has pinto and kidney.

Pellets are allowed in most competitions, his favorite bbq restaurant uses automated smokers, not pit

You are getting trolled and arguing BBQ with an import from Hawaii. At this point he isn’t even using hooks, and still getting hook ups

I been a Texan 55 years, more than most of the weedhoppers on here.

Seriously, I might get a pellet smoker one day, but I won’t admit it on here, kinda like pedicures.

These came off my pellet smoker. They had plenty of smoke for me and tasted great. I have my stick burner and use it for pork butts (pulled pork) and a brisket every now and then. I never cook butts on the pellet smoker, because it doesn`t give it near enough smoke for me. Briskets turn out OK on the pellet smoker, but I still use my offset smoker if I have time. They both turn out great brisket. Any pellet smoker cannot compete with the smoke flavor that you will get from a big offset smoker that a BBQ place will use. My backyard offset smoker cannot either. They just put out different smoke than the smaller ones.

Seasoned 1 hour prior to smoking.
Smoked @ 225° for 4 hours (B&B Hickory Pellets)
Wrapped @ 225° for 2 hours (Brown Sugar, Butter, Honey)
Rasberry-Peach BBQ Glaze applied and finished @ 250° till glaze is set up (50 minutes for me).

Those ribs look great TPAK.!

Speaking of cheating.....only way that dove tastes worth a crap, other than gumbo, is to wrap in bacon. Dogschittt is palatable wrapped in bacon.

Not cheating, that is how you are suppose to cook dove. Dove is boring on its own, like hamburger. You don’t just put a hamburger patty on a plate and serve it, your taste buds will be bored to death. No, you melt cheese all over it, couple slices of bacon, onions, on a toasted bun, lots of mayo, now your taste buds are dancing!

This is another way to cook dove..dove flautas and guacamole....

Dove flautas sound pretty dang good.

How bout the bacon wrapped dove/jalapeño stuff with cheese pic above, but instead of throwing on the smoker, dip in beer batter, then deep fried! I might have to enter that in the State Fair Texas coming up!

Hell yeah. Sounds amazing.

Go eat a bowl of chili without any spices in it and get back to us with the results.

I have THE BEST chili recipe and I cook THE BEST chili

Chili for cookoffs has no beans, no visible onions, is small chunks of meat, the right texture, the right color, the taste that as soon as a judge taste it it says chili, and a slight after taste and burn. If you get a cup of it the first couple of bites is good after that you start saying,(I don't know about this") It took me a long time to learn the tricks of the trade. There are people who cook good eating chili in cookoffs but they don't win.