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Barbeque has always been man’s
domain. It starts in backyards on the barrel pits purchased at the
local hardware stores or markets. Then before you know it that pit
isn’t large enough. Family get-togethers and birthday parties just
aren’t enough. Suddenly the strange sounds of
grinding metal and power tools coming from the garage give birth to
a much larger pit---a competition pit to be used at small community
cook-offs or possibly large national championship competitions. And that’s how it happened for
Frankie Hoch.
Frankie first began competing in
cook-offs at the age of 20 with a pit that he had created from an
old propane tank hanging around his Grandma Emily Bitala’s yard. He
welded it onto a flat bed trailer and added a small tin roof with
pop up sides that provided shade while mopping meat and shelter from
the downpour of a midsummer Texas thunderstorm. This began a long
string of cook-offs that would last up through the summer of 2012.
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