David Stidham - Compart Duroc Afterhours
This podcast episode delves into the intricate interplay of barbecue culture and personal anecdotes, as we engage in a spirited dialogue with David Stidham from Compart Durock. Our conversation traverses a range of topics, including culinary preferences and the nuances of competition barbecue. Notably, we explore the significance of garnishes, particularly parsley, and whether their aesthetic value justifies the time spent on their preparation. Furthermore, we contemplate the intriguing question of which historical figure we would choose to cook for, revealing personal passions that shape our culinary identities. As we unravel these themes, we invite our audience to reflect on their own barbecue experiences and preferences.
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Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Painted Hills Natural Beef
- Compart Durock
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Transcript
Welcome to Barbecue Nation with JT and Leanne After Hours, the conversation that continued after the show was done.
Speaker B:Hey, everybody, it's JT and this is a special version of Barbecue Nation.
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Speaker B:That's Painted Hills Natural Beef.
Speaker B:Hey, everybody.
Speaker B:Welcome to After Hours here in the nation.
Speaker B:I'm JT along with Leanne and David Stidham today from Compart Durock.
Speaker B:This is the part where we torture David for a few minutes here, and it'll be fun, though.
Speaker B:So, David, are you ready?
Speaker B:I can't even find my script today.
Speaker B:That's how screwed up my last week has been.
Speaker A:But I know because I was all unchartered territory for me.
Speaker A:I had no idea there was a grilling gonna happen here.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's not bad, but I think I wrote most of those, so I think I can remember most of them.
Speaker C:You can.
Speaker B:Anyway.
Speaker B:So let's start with the first one, the easy one.
Speaker B:If you could dine cook for and then dine with a historical figure, who would it be and what would be on the menu?
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker A:Oh, you guys aren't.
Speaker A:You guys aren't playing around, are you?
Speaker C:The person can be alive or not.
Speaker C:So that might broaden your selection.
Speaker B:Yeah, with AI, we can do anything anymore.
Speaker B:So, you know.
Speaker A:Well, that's true.
Speaker A:That's true.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I immediately went to historical.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And so, gosh, I.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:I'm a big football fan.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And so I would.
Speaker A:I would love to.
Speaker A:The tailgate and cook barbecue for the 72 Super bowl champion Dolphins.
Speaker A:Miami Dolphins.
Speaker B:Ah, there you go.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:With Bob Griesy and Don Shul and all those guys.
Speaker A:I mean, my.
Speaker A:That was the first.
Speaker A:My first love of football.
Speaker A:When my dad used to.
Speaker A:We lived in South Florida, and so I've been a Dolphin fan ever since.
Speaker A:And so to be able to do something with a team that's.
Speaker A:It's never been replicated undefeated season, and that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker B:I think you'd have to cook a lot for those boys.
Speaker C:What would you make them?
Speaker C:What would you make them?
Speaker A:Oh, you.
Speaker A:It's going to be.
Speaker A:It's going to be, you know, pulled pork and ribs and.
Speaker A:And the kind of stuff that we cook now, you know, and the new.
Speaker B:Hot dogs, the new sauce.
Speaker A:I don't know if anybody knew it.
Speaker A: y knew what Wagyu was back in: Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:If.
Speaker B:If If Leanne made you supreme ruler of barbecue for one day, just one day, David, and what would you decree as supreme ruler?
Speaker B:And everybody had to adhere to it.
Speaker A:Oh, my God, you guys.
Speaker C:You must use Compart Duroc.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, that's obviously, if you want the best, you know, cook a bet, but, But I, I, I, I.
Speaker A:That's a scapegoat.
Speaker C:Well, you know, when you were, when you were competing, there's always something along the competition trail that kind of bugs you in the rules, you know, like, gosh, you know, why can't I use this as garnish?
Speaker C:Or why can't I use.
Speaker A:Or why do I have to build a parsley box?
Speaker C:Right, right.
Speaker C:So if it's something that's kind of a gripe that works, if it was.
Speaker A:If it was a competition, Barbe, I, I did a lot, and I think you did a little bit of this yourself, Leanne.
Speaker A:I did a lot of solo cooks, and, and the last thing I wanted to do was be up on, like, creating a perfect parsley box.
Speaker A:And then I, I look at what other sanctions are doing with this, putting on aluminum foil or putting in a disc, and, like, the steaks, the steak guys are doing.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:I, I, I would have loved, loved, loved to have been able to just put in a beautiful box of meat without having it under a bed of greens.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:And so thanks for the garnish.
Speaker C:Garnish free for a day.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, and as a matter of fact, there's one competition where I did it.
Speaker A:I put, put a little bit just for traction, but you couldn't really see it.
Speaker A:And I built my pork box just so big, and it was almost like a Memphis and May box.
Speaker A:And, and so.
Speaker A:And I actually won pork that day.
Speaker A:And everybody's looking at my box saying, oh, my God, you didn't do the garnish?
Speaker A:I said, actually, there's a tiny little bit down there, but you can't really see it.
Speaker A:But, but that surprised me because I did it that way, and I just had too much good meat.
Speaker A:I was putting it all in there.
Speaker A:I was gonna fill that box up.
Speaker C:It was a good day.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was, but.
Speaker B:But I'm sorry, David, do you think.
Speaker A:It was everybody had to follow the same suit that everybody else had to do?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But do you think this, that talking about the garnish and stuff personally now, I didn't hit the competition trail like you guys did.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker B:I'm, I did other things, but I've never seen the real significance except keeping the Parsley.
Speaker B:People in business that.
Speaker B:That the parsley adds.
Speaker B:I mean, yeah, it's an offset in color and all that, but I'm kind of with you, David.
Speaker B:I would rather just see a.
Speaker B:A box full of beautiful meat.
Speaker B:Nice, you know, sliced or whatever it is.
Speaker B:And there it is, I think.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:You know, and don't.
Speaker A:Don't get me wrong, Jeff, The.
Speaker A:The parklet does add.
Speaker A:It adds value.
Speaker A:That's why you see it in.
Speaker A:In butcher shops and stuff like that.
Speaker A:But when you're by yourself or, you know, when you're.
Speaker A:When you're.
Speaker A:When you're.
Speaker A:When your.
Speaker A:Your time and your energy is focused on putting the best product out there as possible, why are you spending an hour, two hours of that precious time creating that kind of box?
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And that just.
Speaker A:It was just one little thing for me.
Speaker A:And then you have to put the wet paper towels on it.
Speaker A:You have to put it in a cool place, and there are all the different things you have to do to make sure that when you put the.
Speaker A:And here's the.
Speaker A:You know, but you have to lay the paper towels on the corners and the edges when you put your meat in, and, you know, then you have to wipe them off.
Speaker A:And it was just.
Speaker A:It's a big deal.
Speaker A:And I'm just like, man, the amount of.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:Some people say, hey, that's part of the.
Speaker A:Part of it.
Speaker A:And so when I got it.
Speaker A:But I loved when I was able to do competitions outside of KCBS where we could not have to worry about that and just be judged on the flavor and the tenderness and the taste of the.
Speaker A:The meat we produce that we spend all our true energy on.
Speaker B:Well, I'll tell you when it came into mind about, we'll get off the parsley in a minute, folks.
Speaker B:But when we were at the Jack, what, two years ago, Leanne, something like that, you were judging, and I was just annoying people.
Speaker B:But I went by one of the teams from Texas, and they had a beautiful big rig and couple rigs, actually, and, you know, great equipment there.
Speaker B:There's four guys sitting at a table with two huge boxes of parsley.
Speaker B:L.
Speaker B:Literally taking them out and seeing, well, this is a good one.
Speaker B:That's tweezers.
Speaker B:Yeah, like that.
Speaker B:And I'm like, nah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I literally would go to the back of the.
Speaker A:I would go to the produce aisle and say, hey, look, can you bring me.
Speaker A:Can I go back and look at your parsley?
Speaker A:And I would literally buy four bags of parsley because I want it to be the fluffy Parsley, not the leafy parsley.
Speaker A:And then you gotta separate it.
Speaker A:It was like, oh, God, I think we've already beat Parkley to death here, so.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker B:That's fine.
Speaker B:So did you ever have to cook in your underwear in the snow or rain at a competition or even at home?
Speaker A:But not just.
Speaker B:That's good, that's good, that's good.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker B:What's the worst place you ever had to cook?
Speaker A:I cooked a competition in Warrington, Wisconsin.
Speaker A:And this is when I first.
Speaker A:This is my first year.
Speaker A:And as a matter of fact, the shigging and grinning guys were there.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And I'm by my.
Speaker A:I've gone by myself.
Speaker A:I actually know.
Speaker A:You know, I think I had one of my sons with me and he stayed in the car.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:And this is when I had a tent.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:And I didn't really have a trailer.
Speaker A:I had my truck.
Speaker A:I had my tent.
Speaker A:Anyway, I had this big tent up and it was raining so hard over my grills, my smokers, that I was literally a broom handle doing like this, taking the water off so they don't collapse.
Speaker A:And I had to do that all night long.
Speaker A:And it was miserable.
Speaker A:And it was.
Speaker A:And that's when I realized.
Speaker A:I said, these guys have trailers for a reason.
Speaker A:And I gotta step my game up because it was rough.
Speaker A:I mean, it was real rough.
Speaker A:And the chicken green guys, they're hilarious because they came over and.
Speaker A:And they're talking to me and.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And I'm.
Speaker A:This is only like my third competition ever.
Speaker A:And of course, you know, everyone's got a drink in their hand and it's like midnight.
Speaker A:And so we just had a good time and talked and all that, and they did really well.
Speaker A:And I don't think I got a call that day that was a mess.
Speaker B:So, David, what's the best and worst, two different ones.
Speaker B:Concert you ever saw?
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker A:Best.
Speaker A:My best concert I ever saw was Queen when they had Freddie Mercury.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And it was.
Speaker A:It was incredible.
Speaker A:And that's a.
Speaker A:That's a close.
Speaker A:That's a close to.
Speaker A:And you're gonna laugh when I say this one.
Speaker A:But my dad, when I was young, I was.
Speaker A:I was like 11, and he took my.
Speaker A:My brother, who's 12, and I was 11, and we were in Memphis and he took us to go see Kiss.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I had the posters everywhere.
Speaker A:But here's the.
Speaker A:Here's the cool part about that concert.
Speaker A:It was the year that AC DC came to the United States and AC DC warmed up for Kiss, and it was like their third show in the United States, and they rocked it.
Speaker A:And so I saw AC DC and Kiss, and then I also, a few years later, I saw Billy Squire and Queen, and those were my best two worst.
Speaker A:I would say it was a Molly Hatchet Blackfoot show.
Speaker A:Oh, it was terrible.
Speaker A:I mean, I like both those guys, but for some reason, there was all kinds of problems going on, and it was like the sound issues and probably I don't remember a lot of it because I was hammered, but.
Speaker A:But if I had to pick a worse, that would be it.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:A few of those I vaguely remember, right.
Speaker B:Dave Mason and the Doobie Brothers and somebody else in Santa Barbara one time.
Speaker B:And after, like, the third song, I don't remember much.
Speaker A:There's some different reasons for that, right?
Speaker B:There's different reasons for that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like, oh, my goodness.
Speaker B:Ford, Chevy or Dodge?
Speaker A:Depends on what you're buying.
Speaker A:If it's a truck, it's Ford.
Speaker B:It's truck.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, Ford.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:All right, very good.
Speaker B:All right, last.
Speaker B:Last question.
Speaker B:David, what would your.
Speaker B:What would your last meal be if you were on death row?
Speaker B:You don't have to worry about calories, that's for sure.
Speaker A:No, no, you know what?
Speaker A:It probably.
Speaker A:Probably a wagu cowboy ribeye with lobster tails and some.
Speaker A:Some scallops and, you know, baked potato, loaded down.
Speaker A:Glass of wine.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:How's that sound?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Any dessert?
Speaker A:Maybe a chocolate lava cake.
Speaker A:I like the chocolate.
Speaker B:Leanne makes a pretty mean pecan pie, too, I'll tell you that.
Speaker A:Oh, my God, I do love pecan pie.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:I should have thought.
Speaker A:I should have given a little bit more thought.
Speaker C:Throw one of those in.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Just for the heck of it.
Speaker B:David said.
Speaker B:Thank you, buddy, for being with us.
Speaker A:Thank you, guys.
Speaker A:I'm so grateful that you guys thought I would still be a good guest.
Speaker A:That's been a long time.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And don't forget, you can go to the Compart durock website.
Speaker B:You can order some stuff there if you want, if they're not local in your area.
Speaker B:So David will make sure they take care of you there.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:All right, we'll be back next week with another edition of After Hours.
Speaker B:So for Leanne and myself, thank you for listening.
Speaker B:And remember our motto, turn it, don't burn it.
Speaker B:Take care, everybody.
