Ed "Fast Eddy" Maurin
- Born in 1959 in Kansas City Mo. Have been a lifetime resident.
- Graduate class of 1977 North Kansas City HS.
- Married Kathleen Gregory in 1979 to present day
- Worked for several local companies as a welder, fabricator till joining the Kansas City Fire department in 1987 to 2006 retired at rank of Fire Apparatus Operator
- Cooked my first BBQ contest in Nov of 1986 . Established Fast Eddy’s BBQ cooking team in 1990.
- Board member of the KCBS 1992-1998.
- Won many individual categories and overall contest wins in cooking KCBS events. This led to mfg. of his own pellet cooker
- Opened Fast Eddy’s BBQ inc. in 1997 building pellet fired smoker ovens, Commercial and residential.
- Partnered with Cookshack inc. in 2004 Currently have Fast Eddy by Cookshack smokers operating throughout the world with sales reps on every major continent.
- opened Food Truck Central KC in 2016 , 2021 sold
- 2018 designed the first commercially listed pellet fired pizza oven
- opened 451 Pizza in 2019 to present day
- opened Grilling Pellets BBQ, fuel in 2022 to present
- Has US patent on Pellet grill
- has US patent pending on Pellet fired pizza oven
- Off Road racer 1977-1983, 2009 to present.
- Have many awards including 2017 Score Baja 1000 second place TT legends
- Norra Mexican 1000 Challenger era over all winner 2016 and 2017
- Mint 400 Overall Vintage winner in 2017
