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Your Dog Has a Bark, But Does Your Brisket?
June 15, 2021Smoked meats have become famous around the country, even the world, and especially Texas-style BBQ brisket like we serve at Caldwell County BBQ. Many celebrated pitmasters have smoked brisket as one of their winning entries. One of the features of award-winning smoked meat the judges look for in a competition is “the bark.” The dark, […]
Caldwell County BBQ Science of Tender and Juicy Meat
May 15, 2021Brisket is known to be a tough piece of meat. What makes Caldwell County BBQ Texas-style beef brisket and other meat products we offer so tender? Whether a particular cut of meat is tender and juicy or dry and tough depends on how it’s cooked. Among other factors that determine the cooking method for a […]
Man, Meat and Fire – Getting Fired Up About BBQ
April 15, 2021Let’s talk BBQ At Caldwell County BBQ restaurant, we serve many customers Texas-style BBQ and other scrumptious, delectable victuals from our offset smoker. Men, women, and children of all ages love to chow down on our 100% wood-smoked barbeque. Everyone has their favorite. Some love our prime brisket, and others pulled pork or St. Louis […]
Barbecue Champions – How to Get Rich Being a Pitmaster
March 15, 2021BBQ contests are a big thing across the USA and the world. With prizes up to $100,000, being a winning pitmaster in the many competitions can be pretty lucrative. Winners can get national television coverage and bragging rights which helps to promote their restaurants. Cook-off judges have large BBQ cook-off judging sheets that take many […]
4 of The Best Barbecue Festivals in The USA!
February 5, 2021Mark your calendars for the Barbecue festivals around the US that every barbecue enthusiast should be attending. Barbecue Festival – Lexington, NC Lexington claims to be the “Barbecue Capital of the World.” How can they make this bold assertion? With some 19 barbecue restaurants in a town of fewer than 19,000 people, it has the […]
Choosing the Perfect Side Dish at Caldwell County BBQ
January 5, 2021The Central Texas barbecue method came from Czechs and Germans who had settled in Texas in the 1840s. Many raised cattle and owned butcher shops in town and smoked the left-over meat to preserve it. They began to offer their smoked beef to customers of their butcher shops. Soon it became so popular their shops […]
Why Do Americans Love a BBQ On Holidays?
December 5, 2020Why do Americans love a BBQ on the holidays? Because most sane people LOVE good BBQ! Maybe they are a vegetarian and don’t like meat, but they can still enjoy grilled veggies and corn on the cob. It is silly to ask why if you are an American, but there are reasons beyond the obvious […]
From its primitive origins to today’s high-tech modern low and slow smokers, here’s how BBQ cooking evolved from the very first day. Homo erectus learns food tastes a lot better cooked on an open flame. Around 2 million years ago, we find a fella named “Oog” (not his real name) who was a “Homo erectus,” […]
Do you love Texas barbecue? Are you already a Central Texas BBQ connoisseur, devotee, enthusiast, or fanatic? Then you don’t need no dang lesson on this fine dining experience! But if you are a BBQ greenhorn, tenderfoot, cub, or dilettante, then let’s get you edumacated on Texas BBQ etiquette! Here are some tips to make […]
How We Serve a Perfect Brisket at CCBBQ
September 5, 2020For the perfect brisket, you need the perfect beef Beef comes in different grades, Prime, Choice, and Select. Brisket is a particular cut of beef. The brisket is a “primal” of the beef carcass. It’s one of the eight primals in the beef carcass. If you want perfection, the perfect Texas-style BBQ brisket has to […]
