Tag: Megan Day

Megan Day, Burnt Finger BBQ

KC pitmaster joins celebrity chefs in ‘BBQ Brawl’; how reality TV pulled Burnt Finger’s pork through 2020 smoke

By Tommy Felts / June 12, 2021

When Megan Day hits the screen Monday on Food Network, the Lee’s Summit pitmaster, entrepreneur and veteran of TV appearances — from BBQ battles to morning talk shows — could face her greatest challenge to date, she said. “This was a completely different style of competition,” Day, co-founder and face of Burnt Finger BBQ, said of…

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Jason and Megan Day, Burnt Finger BBQ

’Cue new markets: Burnt Finger duo taking Kansas City BBQ to Home Shopping Network

By Tommy Felts / August 8, 2018

The smokin’ popularity of Kansas City’s Burnt Finger BBQ has been less of an explosion and more of a slow char, said Megan Day — culminating in a new line of fully cooked barbecue products set to debut Aug. 14 on the Home Shopping Network. “Classic 10-year overnight success,” joked Megan, one half of the…

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Megan Day, Burnt Finger BBQ

Bacon Explosion pizza partnership with Minsky’s tops meaty six months for Megan Day

By Tommy Felts / January 23, 2018

There’s more than one way to slice Burnt Finger BBQ’s signature sausage log, Megan Day said. For the Bacon Explosion Pizza, that’s julienned — with barbecue sauce and pickles. “The taste that comes through from the Bacon Explosion is the star of that pizza,” added Mike Burr, general manager for Minsky’s Pizza, which has partnered…

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Megan Day on Chopped

BBQ Addicts co-owner tastes individual success on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’

By Tommy Felts / August 14, 2017

Megan Day left the corporate world for sweeter pastures. Now the BBQ Addicts co-owner is glazing her own trail as a premier pitmaster. And for at least one big victory, it’s all caught on camera. The Kansas City-based entrepreneur advanced earlier this month in a special grill master tournament on Food Network’s “Chopped.” Day bested…

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