Just wondered if anyone knows if you can buy or sample bbq ribs at these competitions around the country? I see on tv that they cook far too much to enter and wondered what happens to the extra. I would like to try bbq the way its supposed to taste.

 

Every cook off I've ever been to the cooks have always handed out samples. I would hate to go to a cook off where they didn't.

 

Exactly what Ian said. Buy a ticket, pack a cooler, show up, eat, get in good with a team, eat and drink with them. Good times, good times!!

 

Are there many people that just go to watch or is it mostly competeters?

 

They just throw it all out.

 

All the ones I've been to are big cook offs and alot of people there.