I would love to go to this. I have always wanted to meet Tuffy. He seems like a great guy. And I know he knows his stuff. The man is a true master of the culinary arts.
If I were that close to any of the well know professionals I would be down for the $750.00 entry fee. And you know what I can't believe is that no one from around my area does classes, that I know of anyway. I would think there would be a different class every week during the summer from the Memphis area, go figure!
Signed up for the class today. Will post review after I attend in August. Class is just too close to pass up. I attended Myron Mixon's 3 day BBQ camp at his house 4 years ago. For 3 days it was $750 so I was a little concerned about a 1.5 day class being the same price and Tuffy does not allow any pictures or recordings.
Highly recommend Myron's BBQ Camp! He uses a very military style of teaching. I.e. first he does a demo of prepping the meat, building the fire, starting the cook, and then finally slicing / pulling and prepping the competition turn in box. After the demo, he then splits the group in to 3-4 member teams and you attempt to repeat what he just demoed for all 4 categories. Prep, cook, and then eat. The class also included a whole hog demo. Myron also allowed you to take pictures so I built an entire step by step picture book including his recipes. More to follow.
I believe scottranda attended a seminar of his, not the full blown class I don't think, but perhaps he has a little he can share of his impressions of Tuffy's demonstrations. I too say go and report back!
I believe that Tuffy's class would be wonderful. The cost used to be $1000. I fully expect that at $750 everyone attending will get their money's worth.
The year that Cool Smoke won RGC at Memphis in May, I happened to be lucky enough to sit in on the planning meeting with the team (Jamie Geer, Mike Richter, George Stone and others). The "professor" had copious notes, detailed time line and definitive plan of action. Bet he has the same procedures for cooking all the time. Plus, he's a certified CHEF! The man knows more about all kinds of cooking than I ever will. I'd love to go to his class!
Cmon Ron. Take one for the team. Don't think of it as 750 bucks. You're gonna amortize it on behalf of 20k pit members. You can share all the good intel w all of us for the low low cost of about $.04 per person. Soooooo... you down?
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