Fat&Dumb BBQ

04/09/2025

I'm doing a little thing and your two clicks will help immensely towards getting me into a magazine wearing tiny little shorts while making food with a well known chef.

That would be fun, right!?

Click and vote for free.

https://favchef.com/2025/mike-peterson

I'll only use this "at followers once today and tomorrow, it's annoying, I know.

One chef will win $25k, an advertorial feature in Taste of Home, and a cooking experience with Carla hall.

09/22/2023

Today is the beginning of a very long, busy and tiring 10 days of BBQ awesomeness.

This hasn't been our most active season, but we're ready as we've ever been.

1st up: back to where it all began 11 years ago. A place where failures made way for great successes. Shawnee Town 1929. Our 10th Shawnee Great Grillers.

Then Wednesday, we pull through a concrete tunnel and into the most magical place: the center of the BBQ universe. Our 5th American Royal.

We're trimmed, mixed, stocked, packed and ready to haul. Let's fu**in' GO!

FAAAAAAAAT!

08/29/2023

We have more fun than you and win stuff.

08/29/2023

Hit another perfect rib last weekend with the tried and true JDQ and my own habanada blend.

Holy slow-roasted whole hog, check out the list this week! 🔥
Welcome to the club, teams! Here, we celebrate excellence, and there's nothing greater than the BEST of the best! Among the many KCBS-sanctioned BBQ competitions that took place this past weekend, these exceptional teams have earned their place in the prominent ranks of our 700 and 180 Clubs!

Congratulations to all of you!

Remember to tag us in your posts for a chance to be showcased on our social media stories! 🔥
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Gettin' Basted Meat Rushmore BBQ Double Barrel BBQ-OK Bohica BBQ Machete Boys BBQ Bushmaster BBQ SmellaQue Razorracks BBQ Q-Jitsu Competition BBQ Team Firehouse Smoke BBQ KC Meat Sweats Fat&Dumb BBQ Squealin' N Dealin' BBQ Who's Cookin'? Smokin' Good BBQ The Griller B’s Competition BBQ Team Mr. Dude's BBQ Magic Creek BBQ BnB BBQ You Need A BBQ Rooters-n-Tooters BBQ Bad Habit BBQ DB BBQ No Brainer BBQ Team

06/13/2023

Never gets old seeing a first place smile.

06/10/2023

We've not posted in a while because we haven't cooked in a while, but people often ask who's "Fat" and who's "Dumb". The answer is that neither is a noun, they're adjectives, they're not pejorative terms, they're guideposts for good food.

Here's the latest fat & dumb inspiration...

Bloody Maria:
Hussong's Tequila
5 pepper bloody mix
Dash of Worcestershire
Stockyards Brewing Co. Cerveza Royale
Limón
G-sauce

Garnish:
In-A-Tub taco
Go Chicken Go gizzards and roll
Minsky's Pizza Prime Cut slice

Wish we would have had the time to grab a Hayes Hamburger & Chili double and rings, a wing from The Peanut on Santa Fe and a Mike Johnson from Slap's BBQ, but there's only so many hours in a fat kid's day.

10/28/2022

I do things other than bowl and cook kinda good, for example: looking.

Here's me in more clothes than you probably last remember.

09/28/2022

The early worm gets the bird! American Royal time! Come see us at #617

08/25/2022

Answering questions nobody ever asked:

What if you bolt two Traeger Grills to a homemade hospital gurney?

Well

07/03/2022

Today was a day of mixed emotions. Mike went solo and unsupervised to a contest at Happy Basset Brewing Co (their Kiwi Seltzer is a way-to-easy to drink 5.5% when it's 90 out, btw) in Topeka (which was very Topekaey, when you got off property, if you've never spent 15 minutes in a South Topeka gas station at 1AM on a Thursday, it really is a treat)

"We" (the royal "we", it's 2022, my pronouns, my choice, g*y) went full Traeger for the first time and may not go back. Very pleased with the end product. If We just weren't so friggin to miss pork turn-in by 10 seconds. Confident it was a winner in that box (and you can't prove Us wrong). However, it is what it is. On to the next.

Results:
6th 🐔
8th Ribs
DNF 🐷
2nd 🐮

For those interested in time travel, a 180 would have been a GC. A 6th place pork would have made a RGC, A 9th place taken 3rd Overall. But I don't have a real Doc Brown in my life, just an action figure. So 🤷‍♂️.

Super happy for Dr. Squealgood BBQ and their first GC (two days after the deadline for this year's American Royal Association Invitational ...let them in!)

And also for Love 2 Q on his RGC. Dude is on a heater right now. Also, thanks for breakfast Friday. Next on is on Me/We/Us/Potato.

And congrats to all others who heard their names, or we're happy with their results, or had a good time regardless. Potato had a blast!

Up next: home improvement projects, light carpentry and Baldwin's Smoke on the Bricks at the end of August.

06/11/2022

06/11/2022

Made For KC BBQ Awards Live