Creativity in Barbecue | Cassie Strohmeyer | Smoke on the Water
Barbecue can be as conformative or as creative as you want to make it. One BBQ pitmaster who refuses to relegate her food to the banality of conformity is Cassie Strohmeyer, head cook and team captain of Smoke on the Water competition BBQ team. Hailing from Gladstone, Queensland, Cassie spends her time traveling the east coast of Australia, competing in low and slow BBQ competitions with the Australasian Barbecue Alliance and hot and fast BBQ competitions with the Steak Cookoff Association. And it’s in these SCA competitions that Cassie truly shines with her creative culinary skills firmly at the forefront. Indeed, her dishes are so creative that she’s captured the attention of the World Food Championships, and at the time of writing, she’s on the final list of potential candidates for their Le Cordon Bleu Academy.
In this full episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast, Cassie and I get into:
- Why a potato bake is her favourite thing to cook in a BBQ (1:39)
- Her unique approach to the SCA competition at Meatstock Toowoomba (7:32)
- Her role as a peer judge in the Australasian Barbecue Alliance Annual Awards (18:35)
- The BBQ classes and lessons she delivers (23:19)
- The local products she likes to include in her cooking (35:32)
- Her BBQ catering operation (37:59)
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