PSA: Watch out for cross-contamination at those BBQ competition tents

I was at the Memphis in May contest last Saturday and saw a pitmaster dip his gloved hand into a sauce bucket after touching raw ribs, then use the same tongs on the pulled pork without wiping them off, and nobody else seemed to notice until I pointed it out to the judge.

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betty_ward7d ago

My brother once won a whole rack of ribs from a third-place tent in Texas and I swear I got food poisoning so bad I missed two days of work... turned out later they'd been using the same cutting board for chicken and beef all afternoon. I'm the kind of person who packs hand sanitizer for potlucks now, so I get your concern completely.