Tina Cannon, Celebrity Chef - Encore
This podcast episode features an enlightening conversation with Tina Cannon, a celebrated figure in the culinary world and the winner of the Netflix American Barbecue Showdown. Tina shares her extensive experience, spanning over thirty-five years in the culinary industry, during which she has held various roles from executive chef to owner, and even a sous chef, emphasizing the importance of each position in the culinary ecosystem. The discussion delves into her intriguing experiences with reality television, particularly the challenges and revelations encountered during her time on multiple cooking competitions. We explore the nuances of barbecue culture, including the evolving preferences towards faster cooking methods and the significance of traditional low-and-slow techniques. Furthermore, Tina's commitment to community service through Meals on Wheels highlights her dedication not only to barbecue but also to making a positive impact in her community.
Links referenced in this episode:
- paintedhillsbeef.com
- heritagesteel.us
- oregondungeness.org
- barbecuenation.jt.com
- pigpowder.com
- tinacannancooks.com
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Painted Hills Natural Beef
- Netflix
- Food Network
- Grilla
- Kia
- Heritage Steel
- Hammerstahl
- Oregon Dungeness crab
- American outdoor brands
- Meals on Wheels
- Pigpowder
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Transcript
It's time for Barbecue Nation with jt so fire up your grill, light the charcoal, and get your smoker cooking.
Speaker A:Now, from the Turnito Burnett studios in Portland, here's jt.
Speaker A:Hey, everybody.
Speaker A:Welcome to the nation.
Speaker A:That's Barbecue Nation.
Speaker A:I'm JT along with my co host, code commander and co golfer on the new show we've got coming out a little later.
Speaker A:We'll talk about that more in the show.
Speaker A:Dave and Chris are doing whatever they do in the back.
Speaker A:We'd like to thank the folks at Painted Hills Natural Beef.
Speaker A:Beef the way nature intended.
Speaker A:And we've got a real treat today.
Speaker A:We've got Tina Cannon with us.
Speaker A:Tina, if you watch barbecue on tv, if you will, she was the winner of the Netflix American Barbecue Showdown.
Speaker A:She's been on Food Network Discovery.
Speaker A:She's a celebrity chef.
Speaker A:She's got 35 years in the culinary industry.
Speaker A:And the most important thing she, she's been an executive chef and an owner, but she's been a sous chef.
Speaker A:And I think that's really important.
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker B:I'm just saying they do all the work.
Speaker A:They do all the work.
Speaker C:I haven't even dishwashed.
Speaker C:So, you know.
Speaker A:Well, first of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker A:It's a pleasure to have you.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:We'll get to kind of Tina's historical stuff a little later.
Speaker A:But what was your experience like on.
Speaker A:On Netflix?
Speaker A:Leanne and I have both done reality shows.
Speaker A:We have kind of mixed emotions about them, more mixed than emotion.
Speaker A:But tell us about your experience on that.
Speaker C:Well, it was a long, hot 21 days.
Speaker C:I know that's right.
Speaker C:Because, you know, we filmed it in months that didn't appear to.
Speaker C:When it is, you know, that's tv.
Speaker C:But, you know, I think overall it was a great experience, honestly, even though.
Speaker C:Yes, it's considered reality.
Speaker C:You know, you can always come up.
Speaker C:This is a few years later now that, you know, since it was filmed.
Speaker C:You can always take away more positive than bad.
Speaker C:You know, it's like, I guess, childbirth.
Speaker C:Even though I don't have kids, you know, you don't remember the pain because it was long days and it was very, very hot and very grueling.
Speaker C:But when they edited it, it actually made it seem very Kumbaya ish.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:What's so amazing to me in the shows is that you pretty much have a dedicated camera person on each person, right?
Speaker B:So it isn't like they're going around with one camera.
Speaker B:So the how they edit these shows with all of the footage, especially 21 days.
Speaker B:I doubt they film the whole 21, but even say it's 10 days of 10 Pitmasters, 12 hours a day, and they got to get it down a one hour show.
Speaker B:I'm just amazed that they can edit the way that they do and capture like the cool moments.
Speaker B:To me, it's a really incredible job.
Speaker B:They do.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, you know, I was on Barbecue Brawl too, like you were, and it was very different.
Speaker C:Food Network and Netflix.
Speaker C:Netflix had a lot more camera operators.
Speaker C:They had those little mounted cameras above us.
Speaker C:We had two people on us all the time.
Speaker C:There was a lot more involved in Netflix.
Speaker C:I mean, they had.
Speaker C:It was unbelievable.
Speaker C:They had the cameras that are on the wires like you see at football game.
Speaker C:They had some things that they did not, did not air because Covid happened after that.
Speaker C:And I think they were.
Speaker C:The world was wanting something different.
Speaker C:Like we all got along and everything was great, you know, but, you know, it's very hard when you have to be sequestered with the same people of all different types of people for 21 days.
Speaker C:Because even on what's called the dark days, which means that's the days of their union, they have days that they.
Speaker C:People have, you know, can't work on those days.
Speaker C:I guess it's like air traffic controllers, the same thing.
Speaker C:You know, we have to eat everything but sleep in the same room.
Speaker C:And that was discouraged, but.
Speaker C:But, you know, you have to do everything with a breakfast, lunch, dinner, right?
Speaker C:And then you have to worry because you're miked up all the time.
Speaker C:Like, what if you just, on your dark day, you just wanted to stay in your room in bed and watch tv, you know, you're so keyed up, you don't want them to use, you know, that be against you.
Speaker C:You want to be very positive.
Speaker C:And all the time, because you don't really know what to expect.
Speaker C:You just know.
Speaker B:And that I find that when you're miked up, you forget the mic is there after a while and sometimes catch yourself like, oh my God, I'm mic'd up.
Speaker C:You know, I. I know I've said this on podcast before.
Speaker C: I think I. I was on a show in: Speaker C:My experience with Netflix and I don't know if this is their policy, I don't know.
Speaker C:I'm just saying what happened to me, it was on all the time.
Speaker C:And the very last day when I was waiting to see we, you know, who won?
Speaker C:Whatever happened.
Speaker C:I went into the ladies room and while I was in there, I said a quick prayer and it was so crazy after it was over and they filmed me and I found out I won and I was outside and I went.
Speaker C:He said, my producer, you know, you know, you're assigned somebody that's with you all the time.
Speaker C:Said that prayer worked, didn't it?
Speaker C:So I was like, oh my God, they've heard me in the bathroom.
Speaker C:That was the last day, the 21st day every time I've been in there.
Speaker C:And I didn't even think about it till then.
Speaker C:I went, yeah, oops.
Speaker A:I guess that's why I didn't do very good.
Speaker A:Leanne on my reality show because, like, oh, I probably did the opposite, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But she was saying, you know, I.
Speaker C:Didn'T pray for a win.
Speaker C:I prayed that, you know, just get me through this.
Speaker C:Because I was like, when at the end of it, that was like, true.
Speaker C:That was not acting.
Speaker C:When I kind of fell and Rashid called me, I was like, I was so exhausted.
Speaker C:We'd been up 24 hours and I, I was just totally exhausted and stressed out to the max.
Speaker C:I was at the, my very end of my rope for sure.
Speaker C:So that was not like act.
Speaker C:I'm not a, you know, actress.
Speaker C:So it was not acting.
Speaker C:So I was really, really surprised and of course happy.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, of course.
Speaker C:Hard to get.
Speaker C:Woo hoo.
Speaker C:You know, when you're exhausted.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Sometimes though, when you're producing something, that's when you get actually the best reactions is when people are pressed to their absolute frayed limits.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then you're right because with Ashley, he, he, when he ripped his sleeves off of his shirt, that was all real.
Speaker C:I mean, you know, they feed you stuff to try to get you to egg each other on and stuff.
Speaker C:Some people go for it and some don't.
Speaker C:I really didn't because that's just not me to be mean to somebody.
Speaker C:But he was really, really exhausted, I think at the end of his rope when that happened.
Speaker C:And he kind of like, I thought he was going to leave.
Speaker C:I mean, it was, he was very stressed out.
Speaker C:So that most everything on there, I think was real.
Speaker C:You know, they did, like I say, egg a few things on and a couple cast members, I think they asked to do certain things, but I wasn't asked to do anything.
Speaker C:They wanted me to kind of badger a little bit, you know, that's just not really me.
Speaker A:My producer asked me to tell the truth and I looked in the Camera.
Speaker A:And I said, you really want me to tell the truth?
Speaker A:And the camera guy who I'd made friends with went, no.
Speaker A:So that.
Speaker A:That was the end of my reality series right there.
Speaker C:People don't really realize, you know, that.
Speaker C:I mean, I know y' all do, but they are talking to you the entire.
Speaker C:So when you're talking out loud, you're really talking to someone, but they, you know, people just don't see that.
Speaker C:And then when they.
Speaker C:The hardest part, really, too, was to.
Speaker C:Three days later, when they ask you about a certain dish.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I was like, what?
Speaker C:I don't even.
Speaker C:What did I make?
Speaker C:I mean, I had to.
Speaker C:I had to ask them so I could, like, remember that day.
Speaker C:Or they would have to show you on their phone.
Speaker C:Say, this is when you buy.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker C:You know, to remember because you're so tired and have to be so keyed up all the time and on your toes because, you know they're filming from above.
Speaker C:This show did from the sides.
Speaker C:They had one on the table.
Speaker C:They had somebody right here, like, right on you.
Speaker C:Some when.
Speaker C:When you're cooking.
Speaker C:I don't think I was ever on less than three cameras.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:But that makes it.
Speaker A:That makes what they can produce and edit into a great show.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Instead of just a single camera and one poor camera guy running around with his tongue hanging out trying to catch everything.
Speaker C:Yeah, that would be difficult.
Speaker C:They had some.
Speaker C:It was.
Speaker C:I can say I learned a whole lot about that end of seeing all the special equipment.
Speaker C:And they had these cameras that you actually wear.
Speaker C:And I kept calling a guy RoboCop because he wore.
Speaker C:And when he walked.
Speaker C:I mean, it moves like on a geosphere or something like that.
Speaker C:Forget it's the wrong word.
Speaker C:Sorry, but y' all know what I mean.
Speaker C:It would move and I guess keep things level.
Speaker C:It was Roman Ronan or something like that, they called it.
Speaker C:It was really, really, really cool.
Speaker A:It's called a jib.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah, they have.
Speaker A:They have jibs you can wear.
Speaker A:They're like a Steadicam.
Speaker A:And you can.
Speaker A:It goes like that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, more than me.
Speaker C:I'm just a cook, you know.
Speaker A:It'S.
Speaker A:I had to learn, too, though, that said, and going to get a big lesson here in about a month.
Speaker A:So it's a good thing.
Speaker A:It's a good thing.
Speaker A:Don't worry there.
Speaker A:You're all good.
Speaker C:She'll be ready.
Speaker C:You know, I was on.
Speaker C: The first show I was on in: Speaker C:This, I think my fifth show.
Speaker C:So it's kind of cool that I've been on different networks to see how different they operate.
Speaker C:Like the first show was on, you have an attorney sitting with you all the time.
Speaker C:That's the way they did it.
Speaker C:And it was classified as a game show because we won money, you know.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So maybe that.
Speaker C:So that was very different how they sequestered, how long they filmed it, that kind of thing.
Speaker C:And then I go and I did the bamacure thing for like three seasons.
Speaker C:And that was more of a very budget, more operation kind of thing.
Speaker C:They only had, you know, a couple camera people and editors, you know.
Speaker C:And then doing did a recent one on one of the country networks and you know, that was a very shoestring type budget too.
Speaker C:So I did some higher end and then of course barbecue bra, Food Network, big, big budget.
Speaker C:But they were real, all very different.
Speaker A:Yep, yep, don't do that.
Speaker C:Yeah, I learned something from each one and got to meet a lot of cool people.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:We're going to take a break here on Barbecue Nation on USA Radio Networks.
Speaker A:Leanne and and Ms. Tina Cannon will be back with you very shortly.
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Speaker A:Hey, welcome back to Barbecue Nation.
Speaker A:I'm JT along with Leanne Whippen.
Speaker A:If you want to contact us, call Leanne.
Speaker A:Don't call me.
Speaker A:You can just go to barbecue nation.
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Speaker A:You can fill it out, send it in and we will respond.
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Speaker D:Leanne's on Twitter.
Speaker A:I'm on Twitter.
Speaker A:Tina's on Twitter.
Speaker A:Tina follows me now and I follow her.
Speaker A:We do all that.
Speaker A:So very easy to get a hold of us.
Speaker A:If you have a question or a comment we're very fortunate to have Tina Cannon with us today.
Speaker A:Tina has been on a number of challenging TV shows over the years, and she's got a really cool history here, and we're going to talk about that.
Speaker A:How did you get started?
Speaker A:I don't mean in the television aspect, but when Leanne was on the show the first time, man, I had to pry it out of her.
Speaker A:Not really how she worked.
Speaker A:Worked with her dad coming up and got her involved in barbecue and all that.
Speaker A:How did you start?
Speaker C:Y' all are gonna just really laugh.
Speaker C:But, you know, I grew up eating everything burnt on a.
Speaker C:What my dad cooked.
Speaker C:But I would say what really got me into the competitive part of it was watching a show called Pitmasters.
Speaker A:That's her right up there.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So when I.
Speaker C:When I saw the show, I had already been cooking because, like, my 10th birthday gift was a web.
Speaker C:Can I say a brand.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:A Weber grill.
Speaker C:That's what I asked for when I was 10 years old.
Speaker C:So I had always kind of, you know, grilled.
Speaker C:And I used to go to Girl Scout camp and asked to go cook with the boys on the open fire just because I liked it.
Speaker C:You know, my grandfather was a great cook, so I have that history, but nothing like Liam, you know, with the family business and.
Speaker C:And all of that.
Speaker C:Mom was just a light barbecue.
Speaker C:My papa did it.
Speaker C:My dad burned everything, kind of, but I really liked it.
Speaker C:And when I got the opportunity to start going to, like, Girl Scout camp, back then it was Girl Scouts.
Speaker C:We would.
Speaker C:They would let me go over because I wanted to cook, and I was trying to earn a badge, so I would go every year until I was higher up in the Girl Scouts and got, I guess, too old for that.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And I just love to cook on Open Fire.
Speaker C:You know, we, you know, for that, you don't do anything too.
Speaker C:Too technical.
Speaker C:We always.
Speaker C:Hot dogs, hamburgers, sausage, stuff like that.
Speaker C:But when I saw the show Pitmasters on tv, I was like, I mean, you know, we just watched it.
Speaker C:My husband and I watched it all the time, and it was just a freak time when I decided to go and compete.
Speaker C:I know I've told this story before.
Speaker C:It's kind of.
Speaker C:I'll try to shorten it, if you'd like to know.
Speaker C:But I was cooking a bunch of barbecue for a bunch of workmen and work woman.
Speaker C:That was at our house because there were some storms that came through, Lynn, like you've experienced recently, but it ripped our roof off.
Speaker C:So we, you know, and did a lot of damage.
Speaker C:So we were having to have a new roof put on.
Speaker C:So they were working really hard because there was another storm coming through.
Speaker C:So I just got that old.
Speaker C:It was a Brinkman, if I can say, a brand that we got free with points off a card or something like that.
Speaker C:And the guy thought that he's, gosh, this is really good barbecue.
Speaker C:Of course, he says to my husband, which is from New Jersey, and sorry, land barbecue to them is, you know, put the hot dog on the grill.
Speaker C:That.
Speaker C:That's what they call it.
Speaker C:North is barbecue.
Speaker C:We down here, we call it, you know, that's grilling, you know.
Speaker C:So he mentioned how good it was and talked about a contest, and he gave my husband the application, and I filled it out, went and won.
Speaker C:And then you get the bug.
Speaker C:Get that, you know, a little bit of money.
Speaker C:And the trophies I actually have on the other side of the room here, because it was the first ones ever got, and I won, like a hundred dollars a category or something like that.
Speaker C:Well, then I got the bug.
Speaker C:You win once.
Speaker C:Well, so I started competing, and that was that.
Speaker C:And, you know, I. I got some calls, but I never got, like, a.
Speaker C:Anything better than 10th place for, I think, a couple years at least.
Speaker C: od year once I went pro, like: Speaker C:So, you know, that was a good year.
Speaker C:And I wanted a firewoman challenge at World Food, and that was a good year.
Speaker C:You know, earned quite a bit of money.
Speaker C:And then in the last year, I haven't really competed in, like, KCBS or any of FBA or any of that.
Speaker C:I haven't.
Speaker C:Haven't competed because I've been really concentrating on more teaching people.
Speaker C:So I think it's a lost art.
Speaker C:You know, people aren't low and slow cooking anymore.
Speaker A:No, that's true.
Speaker A:And they.
Speaker A:That's one thing that is kind of interesting to me and Leanne.
Speaker A:We've never actually talked about this with each other.
Speaker A:You know, barbecue, traditional, low and slow, that type of thing, smoking, whatever.
Speaker A:And everybody would kind of preach it.
Speaker A:And then this is kind of one of the dichotomies.
Speaker A:And then they try to figure out how to cut the corner on the time as they go forward.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, They're a little hot and fast on them there.
Speaker A:What you've never told me about your thoughts on that, Leanne.
Speaker B:I am still low and slow.
Speaker B:True blue.
Speaker B:I've tried hot and fast.
Speaker B:Maybe I just don't know how to do it properly.
Speaker B:Sorry, Myron, but I feel like he's the one that really brought it to the forefront in competition and through the shows.
Speaker B:It doesn't work for me.
Speaker B:I can cook a little bit hotter, you know, rather than 225, go 275 with success.
Speaker B:But when, you know, the briskets at 350 or whatever they're doing, I, I just can't wrap my head around it.
Speaker C:Yeah, I'm not Super.
Speaker C:I'm like 235 in a competition.
Speaker C:I'll do 235 at night for my big meets and then ramp it up earlier in the day and I'll go to 275 now.
Speaker C:I guess I know how to do it because on Netflix, everything was hot and fast, but it's just not my thing.
Speaker C:It's just not my favorite thing.
Speaker C:Anyone in competition now, instead of just hot and fast, they're cutting the meat down.
Speaker C:They're changing some of the rules.
Speaker C:And I'm not saying that's bad or good.
Speaker C:I'm just making comments so people don't get all upset.
Speaker C:They're cutting it like where you can cook a four pound butt, you know, whereas, you know, that's just, you know, whatever.
Speaker C:I don't do that and probably never will, you know, but, you know, they're making it where it is less and less time.
Speaker C:And to me, part of barbecue and part of the art of it, in my opinion, is that low and slow breaking down that, you know, meat.
Speaker C:I, I just like it better.
Speaker C:It's just me.
Speaker A:Yeah, I, I'm, I'm with you on that.
Speaker A:I mean, if you're.
Speaker A:I have no problem firing up a gas grill to, you know, cook something on it like that, or my pellet grill or the charcoal grill.
Speaker A:I mean, we all can use all of them, but I always find, I just have always kind of thought it was strange that people would talk about the low and slow and then do something else.
Speaker A:God, we got to take another break.
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Speaker A:We've got Tina Cannon with us today.
Speaker A:Tina, of course.
Speaker A: Well, she's the winner in: Speaker A:She's got a long history of being, especially on television competitions and doing very well.
Speaker A:But one of the things that Tina does that I read about now, we've never talked.
Speaker A:I think she and Leanne have talked before, perhaps, but I have not talked to her is she volunteers for Meals on Wheels, and she also volunteers at a local culinary school teaching different, various culinary classes.
Speaker A:I find that great.
Speaker A:I like to do a lot of volunteer work myself.
Speaker A:I do it more in the golf world than I do in the barbecue world, because that's just what I do, but how did you, like, get involved?
Speaker A:You're there in Kawada.
Speaker A:Is that Kawita?
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker C:That's all right.
Speaker A:How'd you decide to jump into, like, Meals on Wheels?
Speaker C:I used to donate.
Speaker C:You know, if you compete like Leanne, there's a lot of waste involved.
Speaker C:And I just.
Speaker C:You know, food waste is kind of like one of my pet peeves because we have so many people in need in our country.
Speaker C:And I knew a few other cooks that no longer are competing, and I said, what are you doing with all your calls, you know, or your extra meat?
Speaker C:And they told me.
Speaker C:So I started donating all of my coals, all of my cooked.
Speaker C:I would vacuum seal it, and I would donate it to them.
Speaker C:And one day I got an email from them saying, hey, do you know anybody that can help us cook?
Speaker C:Because, you know, I was seeing them weekly because at the time, I was competing a ton, practicing a lot, or if I was catering, I'd have, you know, leftover that extra that I had made.
Speaker C:And I said, well, what about me?
Speaker C:And that was several years ago.
Speaker C:So I've been cooking for them ever since.
Speaker C:And I'll probably hit.
Speaker C:I'll be over.
Speaker C:I'll be probably close to 60,000 this year.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:And I finally actually got an official helper today.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I got my stirring in my flipping arm.
Speaker C:I got good.
Speaker C:But in.
Speaker C:What is amazing is she came in to volunteer, and she's a Johnson and Wells graduate, so we got two culinary people, you know, backgrounds, and she's in baking and pastry, which is not my thing, and mine's, you know, more entree saute meats, so.
Speaker C:So we're going to make a really good dynamic duo in there, so we can really cook, you know, a lot more.
Speaker C:Because I have a lot of travel plans and events coming up, so she can handle when I'm not there.
Speaker C:This is the first time I've actually.
Speaker C:Because I'm going on a business trip to Austin, Texas, tomorrow, and I'm letting the.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:She's actually going to be by herself tomorrow, and I'm, like, flipping out because I have never, ever let someone, like.
Speaker C:I mean, well, there hasn't been anyone that could, you know, come in and.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker C:Do that.
Speaker C:So I'll probably be at the airport, like, texting her, making sure everything's okay.
Speaker C:But she only has to fix, like, 250 meals tomorrow.
Speaker C:You know, we normally do five to 800 a day, so.
Speaker C:And we could do a lot more, but there's just.
Speaker C:We don't have enough donations, and, you know, we just don't have enough grants or anything to feed anymore.
Speaker C:And not enough woman power.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker C:Not that we won't have.
Speaker C:You know, guys, I'm in the kitchen, but typically we have a couple people, you know, guys that help, like, pack the food.
Speaker C:And we have a lot of.
Speaker C:We have, like, a hundred people that deliver all of our meals every week, and we feed people seven days a week.
Speaker A:Good for you guys.
Speaker A:You can always get Leanne to bake for you.
Speaker B:Yeah, I am not a baker either.
Speaker C:You're not?
Speaker C:You know, when you go to culinary school, it's so funny.
Speaker C:Always tell a joke.
Speaker C:You can.
Speaker C:When you arrive, they go, do you like to get up early?
Speaker C:And I'm like, no.
Speaker C:They go, chef, if you say, yes, baker.
Speaker C:So that's not true.
Speaker A:I know, but so is Leanne baking.
Speaker A:Not that what she makes is a joke.
Speaker A:She just doesn't like to do.
Speaker B:I can bake, but it is not something I enjoy.
Speaker B:I don't like precise measurements.
Speaker C:Me either, girl.
Speaker C:Me either.
Speaker C:So, Leanne, do you remember?
Speaker C:You probably don't, but I remember the first time I actually met you in person.
Speaker B:I. I'm terrible.
Speaker C:Also.
Speaker C: It was: Speaker C:Oh, the world.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker C:You were cooking lamb right next to me.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker B:I made it to the final table.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That was my final dish.
Speaker C:Yeah, almost.
Speaker B:Almost made it.
Speaker C:Almost.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But that's where I met you.
Speaker C:I actually cooked right next to you with Scott Smith.
Speaker C:You and stewing and brewing.
Speaker B:Oh, you remember I was cooking with my daughter then.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:That's the first time I actually met you.
Speaker C:I mean, you were very focused that we didn't have, like, a lot of chitchat because, you know, world food is quite busy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So that's the first time I actually met you in person.
Speaker C:And you probably didn't know, but I was super excited.
Speaker B:Oh, thank you.
Speaker A:Did she offer to sign an autograph for you?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Ask, you know, because I, you know, she was really obviously busy and had made it through, and you don't want to mess with somebody, really, when they're trying to win, you know?
Speaker C:I know you've been to a contest and people walk up right in the middle of your turn ins.
Speaker B:Isn't that the truth?
Speaker C:And you have to be nice, especially when she, you know, appeared on TV and things like that.
Speaker C:You don't want to come across because everything comes across worse.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Than you intended to be.
Speaker C:So I usually will go in, you know, and try to do all My prep as much as I can inside, you know, when it's box turning.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's a great event, the world's.
Speaker B:Yeah, I. I like to go every year.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, I haven't been since I won there, and I'm actually going back this year.
Speaker B:Oh, I'll see you there.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But guess what?
Speaker C:I'm competing in the fire again.
Speaker C:No, I'm doing something totally different.
Speaker C:Sushi baking.
Speaker C:No, no, I am doing seafood.
Speaker B:Oh, good.
Speaker A:Good for you.
Speaker C:Haven't made any announcement yet, but I've taken on a new sponsor that I'll probably be announcing next week, and they've offered to partner with me, and hopefully I can produce something.
Speaker B:Well, good luck to you.
Speaker B:That's awesome.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:Because I haven't announced that I was going.
Speaker C:I was like, I'm so glad that I was on here with y' all today.
Speaker B:That's right around the corner, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And I haven't told anybody, but, like, my family and Meals on Wheels.
Speaker C:Hey, it's gonna be gone for, like, four days in November.
Speaker C:Five days, you know, So I haven't told anybody yet.
Speaker C:So now y' all know and whenever.
Speaker B:All right, well, best.
Speaker C:Everybody will know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Are you Leanne?
Speaker A:Are you judging?
Speaker A:Are you competing?
Speaker B:I'm judging.
Speaker B:I'm a master judge down there.
Speaker C:Ah.
Speaker B:I used to compete.
Speaker B:I used to compete.
Speaker B:I won first place in potato salad of all thing back in the day.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:$10,000 and good prize money.
Speaker C:Yeah, I did have.
Speaker C:Yeah, they had good.
Speaker C:The good prize money.
Speaker C:But I just thought, you know, I'm gonna get back into competing.
Speaker C:I'm just gonna do that.
Speaker C:I'm gonna do that.
Speaker A:Good for you both.
Speaker A:Good for you both.
Speaker A:Maybe I'll.
Speaker A:Maybe I'll have to hop a plane down to Vegas and see you both.
Speaker A:But by the time we get down to Dallas.
Speaker A:Dallas.
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker C:They were in Vegas years ago.
Speaker C:Then they moved to Orange Beach.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And they were in.
Speaker C:Was it Orlando?
Speaker C:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker B:They bounced around, and then they went.
Speaker C:To Orange beach or vice versa.
Speaker C:And then they've been in Dallas now, you know, for a few years.
Speaker C:So I just, you know, don't want to drive my bag barbe big out there and spend that much.
Speaker C:I mean, you know, you got 10 days involved in something, and, you know, I've got.
Speaker C:I'm cooked for so many people with meals on wheels.
Speaker C:I mean, there's.
Speaker C:If there's nobody that I know can do that much, maybe now I have somebody, but I've already committed to seafood so I'm sticking with it.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker C:Write me if you got any good tips on anything.
Speaker C:You know, since you're in Tampa now, you might have some great things that you think I should try for seafood.
Speaker C:So I.
Speaker B:You could use some pig powder.
Speaker C:You know what?
Speaker C:I'm not that y' all didn't segue into my product, but I'm probably going to use must.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker C:I saw that seasoning.
Speaker B:I want to see hear about it.
Speaker A:European blend.
Speaker C:It's called European Blend and it's what I actually used on my ribs on Netflix.
Speaker C:But they wouldn't let me.
Speaker C:I had to mix it up and put it in something because you can't put your own product on there.
Speaker C:You know, if you wanted to do how much was it going to cost to put your product on a show like that, you know.
Speaker C:So we mixed it up in the Herbs to Province bottle because they knew somebody in their right mind would not use Herbs to Province and.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:I was going to ask you if it had the same profile as that.
Speaker C:It has some similar, very similar profiles.
Speaker C:Just a little bit different.
Speaker C:Mine only has like 20 milligrams of sodium.
Speaker C:Of course, it's gluten free.
Speaker C:I'm either going to use that or I'm going to use my brine.
Speaker B:Oh, there you go.
Speaker B:Very nice.
Speaker C:Because I use this as a dry brine or wet brine.
Speaker C:So once I decide, once I talk with my sponsor stuff about what things that I'm going to cook, I can decide.
Speaker C:And then I got a hot sauce.
Speaker C:I'm just going to give all the plugs, y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker C:No hot sauce.
Speaker C:So I've got three products out, plus other merch on my website.
Speaker C:So one fish your website, tinacannancooks.com Very good.
Speaker C:And all of the proceeds goes to Meals on Wheels.
Speaker A:Oh, excellent, excellent.
Speaker A:Okay, we're gonna take.
Speaker C:No, I made a commitment to Meals on Wheels.
Speaker A:Good for you.
Speaker A:We are going to take a break.
Speaker A:We're going to be back with Tina Cannon, wrap up the show and I don't have to ask her what her website is now, but we will anyway.
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Speaker A:Welcome back to the nation.
Speaker A:Barbecue Nation.
Speaker A:Okay, so now I get to tell people we talked about it with Meathead was on last week, but this is more serious.
Speaker A:Not that Leanne and Tina are very serious.
Speaker A:They're sincere, but they're not overly serious.
Speaker A:Leanne and I are going to be doing a new television show together called Grilling at the Green, which is named after my golf show, my radio show.
Speaker A:And we start filming in October and we are going to have some fun with it.
Speaker A:And then I think if I can con Leanne into doing it either towards probably right after Thanksgiving, get her back up here and we will film some of the, quote, winter segments up here.
Speaker A:And it is going to be aired on Apple, Amazon, Roku, Pluto and I got a couple other channels, but we'll, it'll be on the Golf NewsNet complete channel.
Speaker A:And so we're contracted to do about a dozen shows.
Speaker A:So I'm one, I'm looking forward to working with Leanne on that and giving her a hard time, which is part of my, part of my job.
Speaker C:Oh, boy, here we go.
Speaker A:But it's going to be a little bit of a different type of show.
Speaker A:We're going to, we're going to, yes, we're going to be doing a lot of grilling and stuff, but we're also going to bring some very easy, fun things to cook.
Speaker A:If you're having your friends over after you play golf, we'll do some long term.
Speaker A:We're not going to do too much low and slow on there because golfers don't have that kind of patience, I don't think.
Speaker A:But we're going to be doing a lot of fun stuff and we want to thank Gorilla Grills and what's that outfit you work for, Leanne?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:We want to thank both of them and the Oregon Crab Commission and a few others for supporting our show.
Speaker A:So we'll keep you posted.
Speaker A:But that's kind of a big announcement.
Speaker A:And also Leanne and I are going to be in Tennessee in October.
Speaker A:She's going to be judging the jack.
Speaker A:But before that, we are broadcasting live from quote unquote, the party and Byron's Chisholm's outfit there.
Speaker A:I'm coming into town.
Speaker A:We're gonna do a live two hour show with everybody there and we're gonna watch Leanne dance and do the swing and the two step with Byron.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get you committed to that.
Speaker A:Anyway, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker A:And as we get closer, we'll tell you all the streaming channels that you'll be able to see that and you can watch it afterwards because it, you know, once you put it out there in the inter web world, it stays forever.
Speaker A:But it is going to be live.
Speaker A:So it ought to be interesting and ought to be fun.
Speaker A:Never been done like that before.
Speaker A:And Ben, Byron's never invited anybody before to do it.
Speaker A:So there you go.
Speaker A:All right, let's get back and talk with Tina some more here and all the stuff you've done in the last 15 years or whatever.
Speaker A:Tina, what's the biggest thing you think you've learned especially about barbecue and then just cooking overall?
Speaker C:Oh, I'm.
Speaker C:Guys, you put me on the spot there.
Speaker C:The biggest thing I've, I've learned.
Speaker A:Wait till you get to after hours, kid.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's really, there's been so many different type of cookers I've been able to cook on and you know, accomplish really good flavored food by trying different types of cookers.
Speaker C:I remember when I started, I was cooking on bullets, Weber bullets.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker C:And I remember, you know, being a. I'm cooking on stick burner.
Speaker C:I'm going to cook on stick, you know, always.
Speaker C:And then who would have thought that I would end up competing on a gravity fan?
Speaker C:I thought, I'll never do that.
Speaker C:So I've learned to say never say never.
Speaker B:That's good.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's good never because, you know, until you experience cooking on that.
Speaker C:And I had a stint where I was working with Grilla grills a while back because I won one at World Food and I really, I loved it.
Speaker C:But they, you know, I don't know I think they sold out or to a different company a while back, and then I haven't had a pellet grill since, and I actually really loved cooking on it because I could leave and go do my thing, you know, go to school, whatever.
Speaker C:I wanted to go visit mama, you know, and come back, and I thought I would never do that.
Speaker C:And I actually really enjoyed it.
Speaker C:And then I had an OG at the time, the original Grilla.
Speaker C:And I actually have to say I really, really enjoyed cooking that.
Speaker C:There's some old videos I did for them, y'.
Speaker C:All, so if y' all go and watch them, you know, they got.
Speaker A:They got bought a little over a year ago by American outdoor brands.
Speaker C:Yeah, I thought it was longer than that, but I knew that they did.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Of course, I don't have.
Speaker C:Have one anymore.
Speaker C:I just had.
Speaker C:I cook on.
Speaker C:I have a couple big green eggs.
Speaker C:I have another, like, combo grill that I think is no longer in existence, but I still use it until it breaks.
Speaker C:And then, you know, I have my gravity fed and have a couple kettle grills.
Speaker C:I have a tribal grill.
Speaker C:You know, I got a lot, but I don't.
Speaker C:Don't have a pellet grill.
Speaker C:So if anybody's listening.
Speaker A:Well, I'm sure somebody will hear this.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:I hope that they did.
Speaker A:I'm sure somebody will.
Speaker A:Will hear this.
Speaker A:Do you have anything that you want to accomplish in the barbecue world that you have?
Speaker A:Not yet.
Speaker C:In the barbecue world?
Speaker C:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C:You know, I give classes, and I just really want to continue that because I really.
Speaker C:I think it's a lost art, so I want to teach as many people as I can the lost art of love.
Speaker C:Oh, and slow.
Speaker C:Get some flat.
Speaker C:That's not a lost start.
Speaker C:I still do it.
Speaker C:More people cook hot and fast now, or they like to go to a big box store and buy it already done.
Speaker C:They don't have the patience and the joy of, you know, spreading that joy of, you know, hanging out.
Speaker C:It brings back family time, you know, when you're sitting around and doing that and serving.
Speaker C:And of course, I want to continue serving people in my community through barbecue.
Speaker C:That's something.
Speaker C:As long as that I, you know, can.
Speaker C:I will do.
Speaker C:You know, I'm fixing to be 60, y', all, so I got.
Speaker C:I got a good 20 years left, right?
Speaker C:I got 20 years, too.
Speaker C:You got 20.
Speaker A:You got.
Speaker A:You got 20 plus there.
Speaker A:I will tell you.
Speaker B:Tootsie.
Speaker C:Look at Tootsie, right?
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker C:I got to meet her last year.
Speaker C:Matter of fact, it was October.
Speaker C:I went on a trip with a group of other lady barbecue cooks, some of them, I'm sure, you know, and we got to go and actually meet her and talk to her, make pictures and eat and hang out with her, even though we still had to wait in line for.
Speaker C:It was only 10 hours rather than more.
Speaker C:You know, some people wait more.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:But we met so many cool people in line and got to tour her pits and, and talk with her about.
Speaker C:She answered everything we wanted to know.
Speaker C:So that was excellent.
Speaker C:He's very, very frank and direct.
Speaker A:Okay, Tina, we got to get out of here, but we're going to go right into after hours.
Speaker A:But again, real quick, where can people find you and your sauces, seasonings, and other merch?
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:@tinacanningcooks.com and I'm on all social media under Tina Cannon Cooks.
Speaker C:And y', all, I answer all of my own stuff.
Speaker C:I don't have people.
Speaker A:I got Leanne.
Speaker C:You know, a lot of people assume that you have people filtering all that.
Speaker C:You know, I do get things that aren't always sweet, and I, I try to answer even those in the, in the nicest manner I can.
Speaker C:So if anybody has cooking questions or any question, I really, really do love for people to, to write me and ask me.
Speaker A:Excellent, Excellent.
Speaker A:Tina Cannon from Tina Cannon Cooks.
Speaker A:Thank you for being with us, Ms. Leanne.
Speaker A:Thank you as always.
Speaker A:Great job.
Speaker A:And we're going to jump into after hours for those of you who leave us now.
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