Barbecue lovers to enjoy interactive 'smoke, rub, spice and wood' deep-dive experience

One of nan astir distinctly American cuisines successful nan world will soon person a depository to observe its spot successful nan culinary landscape. 

Dedicated to all things barbecue, nan Museum of BBQ is scheduled to unfastened successful Kansas City, Missouri, successful nan outpouring of 2025. It will showcase everything from nan different elements of nan cuisine to nan chopped flavors of each location variation.

Food writer Jonathan Bender is co-founder of nan Museum of BBQ alongside Kansas City cook Alex Pope, proprietor of nan Local Pig restaurant.

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"If you could return nan basal elements of barbecue and nan regions of barbecue and move them into experience, person nan expertise to virtually locomotion done those things arsenic you study astir them, I loved that thought of a communicative coming to life successful a beingness space," Bender told Fox News Digital of his inspiration for what's being billed arsenic nan world's first barbecue museum. (See nan video astatine nan apical of this article.)

The immersive acquisition will characteristic 10 interactive installations dedicated to nan elements and regions of barbecue, on pinch a gift shop featuring rubs, sauces and barbecue-themed goods.

"You get nan opportunity to locomotion done and person your senses beryllium tickled. You tin study why fume and swipe and herb and wood and occurrence each impart spirit into barbecue." (Museum of BBQ)

Museum visitors will follow 2 storytelling trails, nan first describing nan elements of barbecue to spot really a pitmaster turns a favourite trim of nutrient into a delicious dish.

"You get nan opportunity to locomotion done and person your senses beryllium tickled," Bender said. "You tin study why fume and swipe and herb and wood and occurrence each impart flavor into barbecue."

Visitors will past recreation done nan main American regions of barbecue – from nan Carolinas and Memphis to Texas and Kansas City – discovering really each location has developed its individual spirit and style.

Guests will beryllium capable to jump into an oversized crock of "barbecue beans." 

"I deliberation we person these beautifully chopped regions of American barbecue, each of which will declare their earthy correct arsenic nan epicenter aliases office of barbecue," Bender said. 

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"But to observe immoderate of nan subtle differences betwixt Memphis and Texas and nan Carolinas and, of course, Kansas City, wherever this is headquartered — I thought it was an opportunity to return a deeper dive while we are together into 1 of these really neat American culinary traditions."

There will moreover beryllium a pit extremity for guests to jump into an oversized crock of "barbecue beans" — that is, a shot pit pinch balls that are shaped for illustration beans, a classical barbecue broadside dish.

The Museum of BBQ will characteristic a pit filled pinch balls that are shaped for illustration beans, a classical barbecue broadside dish, arsenic shown above. (iStock)

Located wrong nan Crown Center successful downtown Kansas City, nan depository is conscionable supra Burnt End BBQ, named for nan city's iconic barbecue dish.

Bender said nan Kansas City constitution serves "all of nan classics."

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"You tin get brisket and pulled pork and burnt ends, [those] crispy small bits of barbecued golden from nan tapered edges of nan brisket," Bender said. 

"So, what's awesome location is, you tin travel study astir barbecue. We'll person a fewer mini surprises erstwhile we open. But if you really want to beryllium down and bask barbecue, your travel tin commencement correct downstairs."

Burnt ends, arsenic seen above, are an iconic barbecue crockery authentic to Kansas City. (iStock)

With galore regions vying for nan favoritism of champion barbecue, why was Kansas City selected to service arsenic nan location of nan museum? 

For one, it's nan metropolis wherever Bender has been surviving and penning astir barbecue for nan amended portion of 2 decades.

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"But possibly much importantly beyond my experiences, barbecue is intrinsically linked pinch Kansas City's history because of nan stockyards and nan railways benignant of coalescing here," Bender said. "So, location is this tremendous rich | contented of barbecue here, which besides tends to beryllium a pouring cookware successful immoderate of nan different chopped regions." 

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Kansas City is besides location to nan American Royal World Series of Barbecue, which it claims to beryllium nan largest barbecue title successful nan world.

This is simply a miniature show astatine nan early tract of nan Museum of BBQ astatine nan Crown Center successful downtown Kansas City, Missouri. (Museum of BBQ)

Although nan depository won't unfastened until adjacent year, visitors of nan Crown Center tin already get a sneak peek of what to expect pinch a miniature installation adjacent nan museum's entrance.

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"A ample portion of this is astir school group astir wherever barbecue presently is but past besides encouraging them to play astir pinch barbecue connected their own," Bender said. 

That includes being "a friend successful that abstraction who tin urge immoderate things, thatch you immoderate things and past stock nan joy."