Father like son
By Mark Taylor
June 3, 2007 They are no ordinary weekend backyard grillers slinging burgers over open flames.
Brothers Jeff and Jae Danner, of Crown Point and Schererville, respectively, and Nick Valle of Calumet City, Ill., are serious competitive barbeque grillers. They are the DoubleDs team They haul smokers and hand-made cookers worth thousands of dollars. They arrive days before the contest begins to erect tents and flooring and cabinet shelves and unpack dozens of crates of sauces and rubs. Their coolers contain 52 racks of ribs, secret marinades and unique spice mixtures.
³We believe in low and slow, the indirect heat method of cooking meat for a long, long time,² explained Nick Valle, 50, of Calumet City, Ill.
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