The Low and Slow Barbecue Show serves pitmaster stories, barbecue recipes, and advice for meat smoking!
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Recent Episodes of The Low and Slow Barbecue Show
Carolina BBQ Festival News, World Food Champions & Collard Chowder Recipe
The Carolina climate is getting cooler but things are heating up for the Carolina BBQ Festival in 2025. Get details, an update on a new barbecue business in Hickory, and a great fall recipe for collard green chowder from Southern Smoke BBQ Pitmaster Matthew Register.
Little Pig’s Barbecue, Cranford Brothers & Barbecue Landmarks Rebound
Ben’s Backdraft BBQ Pitmaster Ben Hooper shares his story about Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. Ben tells of days spent working as a first responder on swift water rescues and evacuations while wondering about the safety of his own family and his barbecue business.
Ben’s Backdraft BBQ Serves WNC After Hurricane Helene
Ben’s Backdraft BBQ Pitmaster Ben Hooper shares his story about Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. Ben tells of days spent working as a first responder on swift water rescues and evacuations while wondering about the safety of his own family and his barbecue business.
SBN Invitational & Kids Que Competition
Southern BBQ Network hosts the annual SBN Invitational – the “World Series” of Carolina Barbecue – Nov. 1-2 in Moncks Corner. Southern BBQ Network President Bill Englehaupt joins The Low & Slow Barbecue Show to share details about the SBN Invitational and the Kids Que competition.
Smithfield Cup Results & Carolina Pitmasters Help WNC
Find out the results from the first-ever Smithfield Cup and learn which Carolina pitmaster is getting a spotlight from the New York Times. Listen to this episode and learn how you can help BBQ pitmaster feed Western N.C. residents recovering from Helene.
About The Low and Slow Barbecue Show
Barbecue podcast “The Low and Slow Barbecue Show” serves up barbecue recipes, advice for smoking barbecue, and cooking barbecue stories of success – and failure! Backyard home smokers and Carolina BBQ Pitmasters share advice – all steeped in Carolina barbecue flavor.
Listen and learn how to smoke meat, the best meat to smoke, how to make Carolina barbecue sauce, and the best barbecue restaurants we love to visit – the best barbecue in North Carolina! (And maybe a few other “barbecue” places, too!) Every episode promises to share a few experiments for the next time you fire up the barbecue smoker.
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Barbecue meat smoking enthusiast Chigger Willard walks through the barbecue basics with guests who bring a wide variety of experiences in the barbecue world. Competitors. Restauranteurs. Fund-Raisers. Tailgaters. Moms and Dads. ALL the people who make the best barbecue share all their barbecue best.
What wood do you use for meat smoking? How long should you smoke meat? Can you mess it up? Can you really cook that on the smoker? How do you barbecue in the crockpot? And just what is Alabama white sauce anyway?
We’re smoking over everything. From Eastern Carolina barbecue – America’s first smoked whole hog, Lexington barbecue where vinegar meets ketchup, and even on to the more exotic: western-style barbecue sauces, South Carolina’s mustard gold, and other peculiar concoctions.
Get answers to the smoking barbecue questions you want to ask – and get them low and slow. That means you’re getting the lowdown, nice and slow – so you can understand it, USE IT … and tell your friends to listen to The Low and Slow Barbecue Show.
Meet Your Host
Smoked meat barbecue enthusiast, news journalist, and sports radio broadcaster Michael “Chigger” Willard collects a storybook of life captured through the lens of people he encounters. With a perspective seasoned by small town life in the Deep South, he dedicates conversations to uncovering savory nuggets of information, light-hearted moments of humor, and revealing glimpses of humanity.
An Alabaman by birth and North Carolinian by choice, Chigger’s barbecue tastes vary as widely as his curiosity about new flavors, cooking processes, and honored traditions. Still, his favorite low and slow styles slather pork in sweet and spicy sauce concoctions built on mixed measures of vinegar, tomato, and brown sugar.
Join Chigger in every episode of the Low and Slow Barbecue show as walks through the barbecue basics with guests who bring a variety of barbecue experiences. Competitors. Restauranteurs. Fund Raisers. Tailgaters. Moms and Dads. ALL the people who make the best barbecue share all their barbecue best.
