Tri Tip
Head Chef
Hi Friends, I’m Back.
I think it’s been about 8 months without a post. I didn’t think it could be done but I officially did it. Go ahead talk smack but I officially burned myself out on BBQ. I was cooking 7 nights a week. Catered on the weekends and competed on the weekends I wasn’t catering. Added to this a full time career and a family. I didn’t even have time to visit with you all, doing what I love most, cooking in the back yard, posting picts of my crappy food and talken trash. My wife told me to slow down but I wouldn’t listen. Yep, I hit rock bottom I got totally burned out and took a long break. I know many could say how can you get burnt when it’s a passion that’s in your blood, but cooking this much became a job (literally with catering). For me I lost the passion for it and was totally burnt. The turning point was when my closest teammate left the team and said. “dude were dropping $800 to work, we've gotten plenty of calls we've proven to ourselves we can cook, I just want to go back to cooking for the friends and family on my little egg in the back yard”. I haven’t competed in 4 months and have only been cooking once a week. We’ll I’m out of sober living now and have decided BBQ sobriety isn’t for me. I’m not catering any longer but I’ll still be doing competitions and back to cooking several nights a week. Lesson learned, don’t over do it, cause even you greatest passion can become work. I don’t ever want to turn my hobby into a job again.
I think it’s been about 8 months without a post. I didn’t think it could be done but I officially did it. Go ahead talk smack but I officially burned myself out on BBQ. I was cooking 7 nights a week. Catered on the weekends and competed on the weekends I wasn’t catering. Added to this a full time career and a family. I didn’t even have time to visit with you all, doing what I love most, cooking in the back yard, posting picts of my crappy food and talken trash. My wife told me to slow down but I wouldn’t listen. Yep, I hit rock bottom I got totally burned out and took a long break. I know many could say how can you get burnt when it’s a passion that’s in your blood, but cooking this much became a job (literally with catering). For me I lost the passion for it and was totally burnt. The turning point was when my closest teammate left the team and said. “dude were dropping $800 to work, we've gotten plenty of calls we've proven to ourselves we can cook, I just want to go back to cooking for the friends and family on my little egg in the back yard”. I haven’t competed in 4 months and have only been cooking once a week. We’ll I’m out of sober living now and have decided BBQ sobriety isn’t for me. I’m not catering any longer but I’ll still be doing competitions and back to cooking several nights a week. Lesson learned, don’t over do it, cause even you greatest passion can become work. I don’t ever want to turn my hobby into a job again.