![]() If you want to learn how to cook good steaks, start with good steaks.”Īnother grilling key is to learn how to monitor the internal temperature. “I have people a come up to me and say ‘I bought my son a reel for Christmas and he can’t cast this baitcaster.’ I can’t even cast it either because it’s a $20 reel! If you’re going to teach your kids to fish you need to buy them good stuff. He compares quality meat to fishing reels. “When I’m cooking, I always cook with prime meat because if you start with a bad cut of meat, no matter what you do to it it’s still a bad cut of meat,” Jones says. Jones has plenty of tips for grilling the perfect steak, but one of his most important tips is to start out with a good cut of meat. “Two or three briskets later, they were pretty darn good and now my briskets, in my opinion, I’ll put them up against anybody’s,” Jones says. It’s hard when that turns out to be a bad first run.” “Brisket is hard to learn with, and it’s such an expensive cut of meat. ![]() “The first brisket I ever made was absolutely inedible,” Jones jokes. He admits that he’s done plenty of research by watching videos on YouTube, and he’s experienced some failures. Photo courtesy Alton Jones Learning Through Trial and ErrorĮven though Jones is admittedly handy on the grill, the skills didn’t come naturally. Alton Jones and friend Robert Mills have won three Waco-area cooking competitions thanks to their skills on the grill. The grilling duo also won awards for their pork tenderloin and Jones’ version of Bananas Foster. It was all in fun, but it was neat seeing him want our recipe for grilling chicken wings.” “But frankly, the dish that he cooks isn’t nearly, nearly as good as ours, and the whole evening he tried to get our recipe from us. “He was at the booth right next to ours and we ended up winning with a dish that he cooks at his restaurant,” Jones said. One year, the duo won with their “White Wings,” a chicken wing recipe that Jones says is so good that it caught the attention of the owner of a popular restaurant at Baylor University. In total, they’ve won this cook-off three different times: 2011, 2012, and 2013. Jones and Mills may not have had the cooking credentials of the other teams, but they ended up winning the entrée competition. This cook-off typically has 300 entries most are local restaurants, with a few celebrity invites extended to central-Texas personalities like Jones. I never knew I loved it so much.” Cook-Off Championīack in 2011, Jones and Mills were invited to participate in the H-E-B Celebrity Cook-Off in Waco, Texas, a contest that raises money for the Waco Independent School District Foundation. It was really my first experience with it. “We got to where Jimmye Sue and I were hanging out with Robert and his family and he was grilling, and I’d go out and grill with him. ![]() “Robert is the best griller I’ve ever known,” Jones says. The couple became good friends with grill-master Robert Mills, whom Jones met in Sunday School in 1986. Jones started learning to cook after he and his wife, Jimmye Sue, got married. “My mom is a fantastic cook, so I always liked food.” Alton Jones certainly knows how to light up the SCORETRACKER®, but when he’s not on the water, the Texas pro is busy lighting up his backyard grills.įor someone who loves to grill as much as Jones, you’d be surprised to know that he didn’t grow up cooking. ![]()
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