C4B Cooking Team - National Chuck Wagon Cook-off | National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration 2017 

I will be attempting to follow more of the other contestants through the summer season as I get the opportunity in the Texas Plains Region during 2018!

The members of this team have worked together for many years. They are also instrumental in the Working Ranch Cowboys Association as founding members and helping the Working Cowboys Ranch Rodeo World Finals to become such a huge event every year.

There are several dozen ranches in the Great Plains region that still use working chuckwagons during Spring and Fall roundups. Here is an example from 2005 and I hope to get more this year! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gJsgSFog8CM.html

It is interesting to note that the C4B name comes from Cooks - 4 - Budweiser.

I hope the tradition continues for a long time to come. The key will be to get younger teams involved.

The organizations which host these cookoffs will sell 50-100 meal tickets for each wagon. Fire pit sizes are generally limited so the inserts help to maximize the amount of food being prepared in addition to cutting down the number of ovens needed. The ovens in use also stay hot which cuts down on the total time since pre-heating is not required.

Yeah I can see where lack of fire pits would be an issue. Many thanks for explaining it to me! I still think that people oughta hide plastic Argo and vegetable oil bottles.

I never saw him at the symposium so I have no idea.

Where re you located? I have had only one opportunity to work a spring roundup with a working chuck wagon and that was back in 2005. The LX Ranch no longer uses one. Contact me! Here is the LX video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gJsgSFog8CM.html

I presume you mean recipes instead of receipts? All the chuck wagon videos I have published so far (except one) have been recorded during a cook-off event. I have asked a number of cooks several times if they would be willing to share their secrets and was rejected every time. There are two reasons I can think of. #1 Time constraints - They have a limited amount of time to prepare up to 55 meals, one of which must be turned in for judging. #2 They do not want to give out their proprietary contest cooking secrets! However, you do make a good suggestion. I will be covering more events in 2019 so I will keep trying I do like to change my focus about cook-offs from year to year. In the meantime, my wonderful friend and 10-time national champion cookie, Sue Cunningham, has published some recipe books. www.xitmuseum.com/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=1432742.16202*_Z28Q5&next=92&product=Books If you want to watch videos featuring recipes and cooking tips you may want to check out another famous cookie @Cowboy Ken Rawlins - ru-vid.com I hope that helps!

Each wagon was given enough ingredients to serve up 54 meals. Only two Dutch ovens were used for the biscuits by using the pans. More ovens were used for the cobblers.

@@jb5938 my point was, 2 years ago, that it is stupid as hell and it's still stupid as hell. You take a good healthy cooking surface and turn it into shit.

yeah its a trip at 2x speed

I was looking for this comment 😂😂😂 nasty

Randall Whipple loves to put on a show! He used to put on a regular wild west show using a dozen actors and musicians for tourists in a canyon south of Amarillo in the early 90s. He inherited his wagon which has since been named the C4B which stands for Cooks For Budweiser. He is on the board of the Working Ranch Cowboys Association (WRCA) and has a nationwide business so the wagon is only used for about four cooking competitions during a year. His cooking team and wagon have won a number of awards.

How do you make it better? Just curious, I'm always open to suggestions for my own cooking. ha!