Fat Ox BBQ started about 8 years ago as a “this’ll be fun” competition BBQ side thing—and then it got serious. One cook turned into another, notes turned into tweaks, tweaks turned into recipes, and before we knew it we were building sauces and rubs that didn’t just taste good in the backyard… they showed up when the judges and the crowd were watching.
Everything we make is hand-crafted, tested, and refined the only way that matters: by cooking with it, serving it, and letting real people decide. The trophies and People’s Choice wins are cool, sure—but they’re really just proof of the point: these are the exact flavors we built to compete with, and they’re the same ones you get to cook with at home.
The event will be held at the Roadhouse in Cave Creek Arizona. We have limited the Rib competition to 25 teams. This will be rib cook off, wing competition and Peoples choice. Along with the competition we will be having an open fire cooking demo with a VIP tent for guests and we want all participants to participate in the peoples choice category as this will be a bbq festival. We will be putting out more details and we are here to help. If you have questions you can message us with the chat feature or submit the form below. Light power will be there on site, turn ins on ribs will be 2pm and public will be tasting at noon. The open fire demo teams will be doing samplings too but will not be in the peoples choice competition. Ribs, Wings, and peoples choice prizes are only awarded to the competition teams. We are still working on details for pack in and setup but this is gonna be an awesome day of bbq!!