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

One of the astir distinctly American cuisines successful the satellite volition soon person a depository to observe its spot successful the culinary landscape. 

Dedicated to all things barbecue, the Museum of BBQ is scheduled to unfastened successful Kansas City, Missouri, successful the outpouring of 2025. It volition showcase everything from the antithetic elements of the cuisine to the chiseled flavors of each determination variation.

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

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

The immersive acquisition volition diagnostic 10 interactive installations dedicated to the elements and regions of barbecue, on with a acquisition store featuring rubs, sauces and barbecue-themed goods.

"You get the accidental to locomotion done and person your senses beryllium tickled. You tin larn wherefore fume and hitch and spice and wood and occurrence each impart spirit into barbecue." (Museum of BBQ)

Museum visitors will follow 2 storytelling trails, the archetypal describing the elements of barbecue to spot however a pitmaster turns a favourite chopped of nutrient into a delicious dish.

"You get the accidental to locomotion done and person your senses beryllium tickled," Bender said. "You tin larn wherefore fume and hitch and spice and wood and occurrence each impart flavor into barbecue."

Visitors volition past question done the main American regions of barbecue – from the Carolinas and Memphis to Texas and Kansas City – discovering however each determination has developed its idiosyncratic spirit and style.

Guests volition beryllium capable to leap into an oversized crock of "barbecue beans." 

"I deliberation we person these beautifully chiseled regions of American barbecue, each of which volition assertion their earthy close arsenic the epicenter oregon office of barbecue," Bender said. 

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"But to observe immoderate of the subtle differences betwixt Memphis and Texas and the Carolinas and, of course, Kansas City, wherever this is headquartered — I thought it was an accidental to instrumentality a deeper dive portion we are unneurotic into 1 of these truly neat American culinary traditions."

There volition adjacent beryllium a pit halt for guests to leap into an oversized crock of "barbecue beans" — that is, a shot pit with balls that are shaped similar beans, a classical barbecue broadside dish.

The Museum of BBQ volition diagnostic a pit filled with balls that are shaped similar beans, a classical barbecue broadside dish, arsenic shown above. (iStock)

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

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

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

"So, what's large determination is, you tin travel larn astir barbecue. We'll person a fewer tiny surprises erstwhile we open. But if you truly privation to beryllium down and bask barbecue, your travel tin commencement close downstairs."

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

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

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

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"But possibly much importantly beyond my experiences, barbecue is intrinsically linked with Kansas City's past due to the fact that of the stockyards and the railways benignant of coalescing here," Bender said. "So, determination is this tremendous affluent contented of barbecue here, which besides tends to beryllium a melting cookware successful immoderate of the different chiseled regions." 

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

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

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

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

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