About Us
It is only natural that one of the country’s top barbeque teams hails from Kansas City – the city best known for its barbeque. Rod & Sheri Gray, finishing the 2009 season as the best team in barbecue, began competing as Pellet Envy in 2001. In addition to being the pit masters of a national championship barbeque team, Rod & Sheri cater, teach, and promote barbeque as America’s cuisine. Their passion for barbeque and outdoor cooking is obvious, they have competed in over 250 events all across the country in the last nine years. In that time, Pellet Envy has won over 60 championships and has ended each season as a top nationally ranked team eight straight years. Additionally, Rod and Sheri Gray have been invited to compete in the Jack Daniel’s World Championship five times in the team’s short career.
Pellet Envy traveled over 26,000 miles, visiting 23 states and competing in 31 contests in 2008. In 2009, that record was smashed as they racked up nearly 40,000 miles, visiting 31 states from Nevada to Florida, competing in 35 contests. All while educating and promoting barbeque, Pellet Envy gathered seventeen Grand Champions and twenty-eight category wins in 2008 and 2009. With only a dozen perfect scores awarded in the four main meat categories these past few years, Pellet Envy lays claim to twenty-five percent of them, including two for their ribs and most recently for their brisket. The ended the ’07 season as the best rib cooks in the country and best brisket cooks in ‘09 according to the Kansas City Barbeque Society, and won more events than any other team in America in 2008 and 2009. They are also the only team to be in the top ten in every KCBS team of the near national rankings the past two years. In addition, Rod & Sheri teach their winning style of barbeque to sold out crowds all over the country.
Without major sponsors like Greased Lightning, all of this would not be possible. Look for Pellet Envy traveling the highways and byways of America preaching the gospel of barbeque. Be sure to give them a honk and a wave or drop in to say “hey” when you see them at an event. They’d love to blow a little smoke about all things barbeque!