Sterling “Big Poppa” Ball’ is an AmazingRibs.com Contributing Author; a top competition BBQ cook with his Big Poppa Smokers Competition BBQ Team; a recipe and social media content developer; and founder of Big Poppa Smokers, a top online retailer of quality BBQ and grilling products.
With over 30 years of cooking experience, his passion for cooking outdoors has led him to have his hand in almost every aspect of the barbecue world. From veteran pitmasters to weekend warriors; outdoor cooks across the nation trust Sterling’s taste when it comes to which meats, rubs, and sauces to use in competition.
Be sure to check out the Big Poppa Smokers’ website here for even more great recipes, plus a variety of BBQ and grilling products, including the Big Poppa Smoker line of sauces and rubs, smokers, grills, knives, and more.
High quality websites are expensive to run. If you help us, we’ll pay you back bigtime with an ad-free experience and a lot of freebies!
Millions come to AmazingRibs.com every month for high quality tested recipes, tips on technique, science, mythbusting, product reviews, and inspiration. But it is expensive to run a website with more than 2,000 pages and we don’t have a big corporate partner to subsidize us.
Our most important source of sustenance is people who join our Pitmaster Club. But please don’t think of it as a donation. Members get MANY great benefits. We block all third-party ads, we give members free ebooks, magazines, interviews, webinars, more recipes, a monthly sweepstakes with prizes worth up to $2,000, discounts on products, and best of all a community of like-minded cooks free of flame wars. Click below to see all the benefits, take a free 30 day trial, and help keep this site alive.
Post comments and questions below
1) Please try the search box at the top of every page before you ask for help.
2) Try to post your question to the appropriate page.
3) Tell us everything we need to know to help such as the type of cooker and thermometer. Dial thermometers are often off by as much as 50°F so if you are not using a good digital thermometer we probably can’t help you with time and temp questions. Please read this article about thermometers.
4) If you are a member of the Pitmaster Club, your comments login is probably different.
5) Posts with links in them may not appear immediately.
Moderators