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BBQ Related Topics => Welcome, Please Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: bigmista on February 09, 2009, 02:30:25 pm
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Hey everybody!
My name is Neil but everybody calls me Bigmista. I'm the head cook for the Four Q BBQ team here in Los Angeles. I'm also the owner of Bigmista's Barbecue Catering. I've been BBQ'ing seriously since about 2004. We just started vending at festivals and Farmers Markets last year but our biz seems to be taking off.
I really have a lot of fun with the AZ teams when they come to town and I am really looking forward to Stagecoach so we can hangout for the whole weekend!
I cook on a medium Spicewine, fat cap down. I don't foil unless I'm late. I brine chicken but inject butts and briskets. Grilling ain't BBQ but it can still be good. And when it comes to BBQ, it don't matter how many gadgets you got, it's done when it's done.
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Hi Neil,welcome to the forum,great bunch of people here,just try to ignore that Thom Emery guy that gets in and out of here ;D :o ;D
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Neil, Welcome to the site, great to have you over here. We have a great group of people over here and as you know, have a lot of fun.
We really enjoyed seeing you and your team this past weekend out at Palm Desert, it's always a great time when you guys are around.
Looking forward to seeing you online here more and hopefully out at some of our events in the near future.
Good luck with the Farmers Markets, sounds like that's a great gig for you, congrats.
See you at Stagecoach..
Oh yea, Thanks for the endorsement for the Liquid Smoke.. ;) ;D
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Welcome Neil, glad to see hear.
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once again welcome!! Congrats on another people choice win!!
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Welcome to the site Bigmista. Looks like that wet weather followed us home to AZ.
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yep, it has been snowing here all day!
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Well anything to get this wet madness out of SoCal!! Rain kicked our butts at the market yesterday.
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Right on! Good to have you over here, Neil. A couple suggestions, do not bad mouth the Arizona Cardinals, you WILL be reprimanded. Feel free to knock the Pittsburgh Steelers all you want, and we derive great pleasure in putting down the U of A Wildcats whenever possible.
As you probably know by now, Mike boils his ribs, Thom speaks in tounges, Force rubs and injects his butt whenever he can, Toyz is a Ninja Firewalker, DDog is a post whore..........in other words, freaks hang out here. You'll fit right in! ;D
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Hi Neil,welcome to the forum,great bunch of people here,just try to ignore that Thom Emery guy that gets in and out of here ;D :o ;D
I was wondering who would get the spot next the Rest Rooms and Generators at Stagecoach
Thanks for helping me decide >:D ::) ;D
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Hey Niel glad you found the site!! met you at Hesperia event last year and chatted. My son could not get enough of your fatty's during the taste testing!!
Quiggs of Havasu
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Hi Neil,welcome to the forum,great bunch of people here,just try to ignore that Thom Emery guy that gets in and out of here ;D :o ;D
I was wondering who would get the spot next the Rest Rooms and Generators at Stagecoach
Thanks for helping me decide >:D ::) ;D
Whew, Glad Tim spoke up and requested it. For a minute there, I thought Dean was the shoe in for that spot.. ;D ;D
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I brine chicken but inject butts...
Baseball player, eh?
Sorry. Couldn't resist. Welcome, Bigmista. I've been reading the 158 page UDS thread with your fingerprints all over it. I absolutely LOVE your ash/charcoal pan. As I said at the end of that post, I told the DW that I want to build a UDS, and she acted like I said I was headed down to the Bentley dealership...
I saw the pics of the PD cookoff, and I thought, "Isn't that Bigmista from Brethren?". I like it when I'm right. I'm married, I don't get to feel like that very often.
If my DW ever logs on here, she'll be my DX!
azkitch
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Howdy Neil.
Glad you joined the site. Hope you enjoy our forum and post often.
My teammates and I had the pleasure of competing next to you at Viejas last year, and hope to have an opportunity to do so again. We'd love to see you make it out to an AZ comp. Mike will even show you his boiled rib technique. He doesn't share that with just anyone.
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Ain't the rain wonderful :D
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Welcome BigMista to the AZ madness. Glad to see you over here.
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Hi Neil,welcome to the forum,great bunch of people here,just try to ignore that Thom Emery guy that gets in and out of here ;D :o ;D
I was wondering who would get the spot next the Rest Rooms and Generators at Stagecoach
Thanks for helping me decide >:D ::) ;D
Oh,no,Thom,this year I think we,along with AZ Barbeque,and Rhythm and Que, should be placed by the promoter,like year #1 ;D We would enjoy your company allllll night ;D :o ;D :o
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I will not be on site Sorry
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Neil welcome to the club pull up a log and enjoy. Looking foward to seeing ya again
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Right on! Good to have you over here, Neil. A couple suggestions, do not bad mouth the Arizona Cardinals, you WILL be reprimanded. Feel free to knock the Pittsburgh Steelers all you want, and we derive great pleasure in putting down the U of A Wildcats whenever possible.
As you probably know by now, Mike boils his ribs, Thom speaks in tounges, Force rubs and injects his butt whenever he can, Toyz is a Ninja Firewalker, DDog is a post whore..........in other words, freaks hang out here. You'll fit right in! ;D
Sounds like my kinda crew here. I feel like I know half of the folks here already.
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Hey Niel glad you found the site!! met you at Hesperia event last year and chatted. My son could not get enough of your fatty's during the taste testing!!
Quiggs of Havasu
I remember you and your son Quiggs! Great to see you!
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Mike will even show you his boiled rib technique. He doesn't share that with just anyone.
So that's why he was using that boat oar to stir something in his UDS, huh? I thought he was washing clothes...
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Hey Neil, bout time you spoke up over here. See ya soon.
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Mike will even show you his boiled rib technique. He doesn't share that with just anyone.
So that's why he was using that boat oar to stir something in his UDS, huh? I thought he was washing clothes...
Why do you think he has me out front playing with plastic ribs and the fog machine in the diamond plate...you thought we we're really cooking in that thing? Can't get it dirty, that's the showroom model.
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Neil:
Greetings from your fellow So. Cal. Q-er! I wanted to personally thank you for the foil wrapped brisket you gave me to take home after the Palm Desert contest last Saturday. I put it in my cooler and didn't notice it until I unpacked on Sunday. We had it for lunch and boy it was yummy! When my kids ate it, they said it tasted different and was better than mine. So I told them it was from the BigMista! Thanks my BBQ brother!
Gary and I are thinking about heading out to the Tempe IBCA on March 6. Any other Cal teams want to come?
Harry