The unit features an oversize charcoal basket to house fuel and is made of dependable, heavy-duty steel with cast-iron grates to help ensure lasting use. After all these years, it’s still magical.Great for family gatherings or celebrations, the Oklahoma Joe’s Bronco Drum Smoker offers 284 squares inches of space to help you cook plenty of food. “I’m reminded of the importance of what we do here, and our role in Kansas City’s barbecue tradition, every morning when I arrive at the restaurant and smell that wonderful smoke coming out of our smokers. We stay close to our customers and close to the product. Our goal has only ever been to be the best. Our ambition has never been to be the biggest. “Three barbecue restaurants are enough for us. And for that Jeff has a quick and definitive answer. The subject of expanding the company comes up frequently. The Stehneys have been the sole owners of Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que restaurants from that time forward. With no one to oversee the Oklahoma restaurant, it was closed and Jeff and Joy bought Joe’s share of the Kansas City restaurant. Then, in 1997, Joe Davidson sold his smoker company and moved to Texas. We put together a proposal, made an offer, and all of a sudden we were not only in the barbecue business, but also in the gas station business.” Crafted from heavy-gauge solid steel, with a professional. I knew we’d be putting in some long hours, and being close to home would be a really good thing. The Highland Oklahoma Joes Smoker/Grill brings competition-style barbecuing to your backyard. But the main thing was that it was close to home. Plus, there was a liquor store next door, in the same building, which was kind of cool. “It seemed like a pretty good place for a barbecue joint,” Jeff says. Later that year, experience and commitment intersected with opportunity and serendipity at the corner of 47th Avenue and Mission Road in Kansas City, Kansas, where the owner of a little neighborhood gas station and convenience store, not far from the Stehneys’ house, closed the little fried chicken counter he had been operating inside the store. Oklahoma Joe’s Barbecue and Catering was created in mid-1995, and the first Oklahoma Joe’s restaurant opened in January 1996 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Under the heady influence of barbecue smoke, Jeff and Joe decided to go into the restaurant business together. Out on the competition circuit, Jeff and Joy had become friends with Joe Don Davidson, founder and owner of the Oklahoma Joe’s Smoker Company. “Of course, that was flattering, but we were both employed in the restaurant industry at the time, and we knew firsthand how much effort and risk would be involved in opening our own place. “Pretty soon people began to tell us that we should open our own restaurant,” Joy recalls.
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If you want a full picture of the awards accolades Joe’s has received over the years, you can check them out here.Īs their reputation for championship barbecue began to spread, folks began to ask Jeff and Joy if they would cater special events, wedding receptions, retirement parties, and such. Over the course of the next several years the team took home trophies from some of the most prestigious barbecue competitions in the country, including the Lenexa Kansas State BBQ Championship, the American Royal Open, and the American Royal Invitational. It wasn’t long before Slaughterhouse Five began winning contests. The Stehneys soon bought a competition-style smoker and, together with a few friends, formed a barbecue team. I knew then and there this was something I had to do.” In 1990, Jeff and Joy attended a barbecue contest for the first time, at the invitation of a friend. But Jeff and Joy’s company is anything but ordinary. People start successful businesses every day, after all. In many ways, it is a quite ordinary story. This is the story of Jeff and Joy Stehney and their company, Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que. There would be about 3 3/4' at the lowest part of the chamber clearance this way. Its got about a 30 ' long cook chamber and has a16' round body. It can even transform a neighborhood corner gas station into one of the most popular restaurants on the planet. I recently got an old Oklahoma Joe smoker. It can transform the least desirable cuts of meat into the most delectable.
Smoke has the power to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. In Kansas City, where barbecue is a way of life, it is understood that smoke has mystical properties.
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