Cen Cal Smoke

This weekend checked a few boxes for us.

✅ Earned a Golden Ticket
✅ Heard our name called twice
✅ Completed our first solo cook without our mentor, Cherry Anchor BBQ

This weekends results.

🥈 2nd Place Ribs
🥉 3rd Place Chicken

We’re proud of the results, proud of the growth, and already thinking about the next cook.

Congratulations to Los Mexiqtioners Bbq on the Grand Championship and MAC BBQ on Reserve Grand Championship and people’s choice. Well deserved.

Thank you to everyone who follows along, stops by the shop, and supports our BBQ adventures. We couldn’t do it without you.

On to Sunday at the shop! Come down and see me limp around the shop 😂🔥🦝

Cen Cal Smoke – Up Way Too Early Thought of the Day 🤔🔥

What are your thoughts on pellet grills?

Love them?
Hate them?
Own one?
Thinking about buying one?

Ground rules:
✅ Give your opinion.
✅ Share your experience.
❌ Don’t bash anyone else’s cooker.

At the end of the day, if it makes food you enjoy eating, you’re doing it right.

Let’s hear it. 👇🔥

🔥 Father’s Day is coming, and if Dad loves BBQ, we’ve got a few recommendations.

🥩 Beef: Whiskey Bent The Rocks + Heath Riles Garlic Butter

🍗 Chicken: Chicken Fried BBQ Texas Sweet Grind

🐖 Pork: You can’t go wrong with the JDQ lineup.

Simple combinations. Proven results. No gimmicks.

Whether Dad is cooking tri-tip, ribs, brisket, pork shoulder, or chicken thighs this weekend, we’ve got something that’ll help make the cook a little better.

Stop by the shop and let’s talk BBQ.

📍 Cen Cal Smoke
Wed–Fri 10–5:30
Sat–Sun 10–3

🔥 Father’s Day is June 21.

If Dad loves BBQ, we’ve got plenty of gift ideas waiting for him.

Rubs.
Sauces.
Pellets.
Charcoal.
Thermometers.
Accessories.

Whether he’s a backyard griller or the guy who’s up at 4am checking brisket temperatures, we’ll help you find something he’ll appreciate.

📍Cen Cal Smoke
Wed–Fri 10–5:30
Sat–Sun 10–3

What’s Dad’s specialty?

Tri-tip? Brisket? Ribs? Burgers? 👇🔥

A great CANA destination this Saturday! Follow the Virginia Corridor Trail and enjoy the work of many talented local artists and makers. You may just discover that "special something."

Apparently I’ve been doing social media wrong.

BBQ restocks: 😴

Fictional 4U travel baseball team: 👀🍿

Lesson learned.

Maybe I need to start announcing new rubs like they’re elite travel teams.

Now recruiting: Bernie’s BBQ Sweet Heat Hog Rub.
(Coming soon to Cen Cal Smoke)

7 competitions a month.

$2,700 a bottle.

In store exclusive! 😂🔥

🚨 Travel Ball Announcement 🚨

After careful consideration, Cen Cal Smoke has decided to sponsor a new 4U travel baseball team.

Because frankly, if your 4-year-old isn’t flying to Florida, Arizona, and Southern California multiple times a year, are they even committed? 🤷‍♂️

⚾ 7 tournaments a month
⚾ 13 practices a week
⚾ Cross-country travel opportunities
⚾ Recruiting exposure before kindergarten
⚾ Monthly fees of only $2,700

Our coaching philosophy is simple:

Nap time is temporary.
Perfect Game profiles are forever.

In all seriousness, youth sports have gotten wild. 😂

Even if you love the travel ball scene you have to laugh at this one! Who’s in?