About Us  BBQ Pirates started as group of co- workers, interested in cooking,  naive enough to think we could  enter a barbecue competition and  win it all.  Originally called ‘BBQ Pirates of  the Pork’n Bean’, a homage to a  well known movie of the time, we  shortened the name after  explaining on too many occasions  how we came up with the name in  the first place. Our grilling/smoking experience, as  a group, was to cook for co-  workers before holidays and  special occasions in the  department in which we all worked.  Our supervisor at the time, loved to  experiment with different recipes,  so we were exposed to many  different styles and flavors of foods. He was particularly enamored with  the Caribbean, with Jamaican jerk  seasoning being one of his  favorites. This affinity with the  islands also was a deciding factor  in our team name. The company where we work  manufactures some of the largest  earth moving equipment in the  world, so using bits and pieces of  scrap metal and parts (don’t tell our employer), a grill/smoker was  assembled, large enough to cook  for fifty people (the size of the  department at the time). This grill  has seen everything from steak  and hamburgers to fish and brine  marinated pork chops. Competition led us to our BBQ  sauces (one made with Jamaican  Rum) and rubs and seasonings. A  hit with visitors at the competitions  as well as friends and co-workers,  we decided to start a small  business (the trials and tribulations  many and the frustrations  immense). While all of the cooking  events we enter are for charity, an  expensive undertaking to say the  least, we hope that the sale of our  products can help us to continue  with this endeavor as well as  provide us with an activity that we  can continue once we reach  retirement (rapidly approaching for  several of us). We continue to refine our cooking  skills, at the same time we have a  blast making our sauces and  mixing our spices. This site is not  about selling our product but  showing our fondness for  barbecue, grilling, and cooking in  general. That is not to say we won’t  try to get you to buy our product  (see links for location where they  can be purchased), but this site  was developed to provide  information and above all else, fun! We hope you will enjoy this site,  comment if you like, we enjoy  hearing your comments and  suggestions. The BBQ Pirates October 2004 Updated November 2010  Copyright © 2004 - 2010 BBQ Pirates. All rights reserved.