the best BBQ sauce!

[shanti]

i'm firing up the grill for some ribs today...what is your favorite store bought brand? i know y'all bbq freaks aren't going to post your "secret recipes", so just the store stuff, please.

i nominate KC masterpiece, with bullseye coming in a distant second. 1 just love the sweet, brown sugar based sauces best! most of the others are either too vinagery or too tomatoey. kc is just right!

and yours?

[Champ]

1. I nominate anything hickory

:9

[wryter2000]

2. Buy your favorite

And doctor it. Add mustard, garlic, heat, sweetness, lemon juice until you get exactly what you want.

My favorite BBQ sauce is Everett and Jones. It's available locally around Oaktown and by mail order, I believe. I eat it on everything but ice cream.

[ForrestGump]

3. Sonny's! From the BBQ chain in GA and FL. Yum.

Been too long since I've had it. :-(

Love their dark, sweet sauce.

Hungry now...

[mike_c]

5. Sonny's is where people from out of town eat BBQ in GA....

Residents always know where to find the real thing!

on edit: What more appropriate topic to FLAME ON than barbecue?

[ForrestGump]

6. But The Real Thing is often putrid

to me. :D

But even at the good one-off BBQ places that I've visited in GA I've not found a sauce that pleases my palate anywhere near as much as does Sonny's dark one.

I repeat: YUM! :P

[mike_c]

14. PUTRID??!! I demand that you meet me on the field of honor, sir!

You dare refer to the One True Barbecue-- north GA pork with vinegar sauce-- as "putrid?"

Well, there's no accounting for taste! :-)

[ForrestGump]

15. Ha! I sling quantities of Brunswick stew in your general direction!!

[mike_c]

18. with sweet iced tea and Wonder Bread....

Food fight!

[ForrestGump]

21. Oh, like totally gag me with a spoon

Never did like sweet tea, or iced tea of any kind (finally got me a minor taste for Arizona honey-ginseng tea and the like) and I'd take multigrained muesli and broccoli beansprouts anchovy honey Poupon alfalfa bread any day over the Wonder kind...

Don't like catfish, either.

In summary, I was not a very good Southerner.

But I DID love the banana pudding. And fried okra. And BBQ. :D

[shanti]

10. i know, i know!

bbq topics always cause lots of commotion, but i'm hungry! lol

[ForrestGump]

12. To make it worse (man, they won't even let me back in GA), I only

usually order BBQ chicken. :o

Though I do find yummitude in the shredded kind of BBQ, as a sandwich, whether chicken, beef, or pork (Lloyds frozen stuff included). I am not a BBQ purist, apparently. :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. If you make it to the DU get together

you will taste my famous ribs...we can throw a breast on the grill for you too ;-)

I know it's a bit of a jaunt from Wet Wang but if I can make the pilgrimage from Dildo...you can make it too.

[ForrestGump]

22. I will make a point of it. I'd travel a thousand miles to nibble your

ribs and to savor your delectable breasts.

Finger-lickin' good!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. You sure are a total fucking pervert about your BBQ

that's why I loves ya! ;-)

[ForrestGump]

33. Hey, good lookin', whatcha got cookin'? And I was going to say something

about Polish sausage and well-developed gag reflexes, but I'm way too genteel, swave, and deboner.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. Yes and I was heading straight for the rump roast myself

but your tenderloins got in my way :evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

44. Oh, now look what you've done. I've got special sauce everywhere...

:o

BBQ is so messy...'scuse me while I wipe the juices that're running so freely down my chin and trickling down my neck...

:P

Can't take me anywhere...

[mike_c]

4. I will commit BBQ sacrilage and nominate...

...Stubbs. Yes, it's Texan and please don't despoil pork with it, but otherwise I think it's one of the best bottled sauces that's widely available. I routinely use it on barbecued tri-tip sandwiches-- that's what I'm having for dinner tonight, as a matter of fact!

[frylock]

25. i'll back you up on stubb's..

good marinades and sauces!

[tridim]

7. I like Bullseye.. and I get so much grief for it

Being from Kansas City, if you don't use Gates or KC Masterpiece you're considered an outcast. IMO, both of those brands suck. Bullseye isn't great by itself, but used as a base I can turn it into a kickass BBQ sauce. I usually add brown Sugar, honey, vinegar, cayenne, paprika, chili, basil, black pepper and worcestershire sauce. I always BBQ with dry rub and brush on the sauce half way through.

I just used it on some BBQ chicken thighs last night and practically had an orgasm while eating them.

[Fenris]

8. Rudy's is pretty good. Gas station BBQ here in Texas.

SEHR gut.

[proud patriot]

9. Back Forty Texas BBQ

http://www.backfortytexasbbq.com/
the absolute best BBQ sauce ever .

Awards
http://www.backfortytexasbbq.com/

and you can order the sauce online
http://www.backfortytexasbbq.com/

you won't be dissappointed

[billbuckhead]

11. Famous Dave's

I think the the combination of paprika and pineapple juice is excellent.

[mike_c]

16. thnks for the link....

That looks worth trying.

[proud patriot]

17. OMG it's soooo Good

:thumbsup:

[BlueCollar]

13. Stubbs

For store-bought...:-)

[ornotna]

47. Agreed

For store bought, Stubbs is very good.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. Sugar Ray's is the best of all I have tasted

Sweet..nice smokey flavor and it spreads well and evenly..not too runny

[trotsky]

23. Ken Davis

Original recipe - sweet, smoky, a little spicy, mmmmmmmmmmm

[davsand]

26. KC is good stuff, but use ketchup and make your own...

It's better...

Ketchup, juice of a lemon, some kind of onion (Juice, minced powdered--whatever you have), brown sugar, honey, and whatever heat you want in it. Nuke it to the point the brown sugar dissolves and then re-spice it...

Sorry--but I just don't buy sauce very often unless I'm in a hurry or feeling lazy. :)


Laura

[Touchdown]

27. Gates and Sons from Kansas City.

This is spicy, so if you like KCM, you might not like that.

GAWD I miss that. Denver has the absolute WORST BBQ in the world! :puke:

Gates is famous for the employees yelling at you. It's quite a shock the first time you go in there.

"Hi! May I help you?"

[forgethell]

28. I can't stand the sticky, sweet, candy

barbecue sauce myself, but it takes all kinds. Stubb's original is pretty good. I like to thin it out a little. Wicker's is an excellent base, but requires so tomato sauce. I've found a little orange flavoring at the very end of creating your sauce is an excellent addition to almost any sauce.

[bratcatinok]

30. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in disliking

sweeeeeeeet barbecus sauce. If I buy any bottled sauce I always have to add vinegar to it to cut the sweetness. I like a barbecue sauce that has a bite to it so I usually throw in a little habanero pepper in mine.

[forgethell]

48. Cut it with

a little Lea & Perrins Worchestershire sauce, too, and maybe add t pinch of salt. Incredible improvement.

[HuckleB]

29. Is made from scratch.

Storebought stinks, especially the crap they sell at the supermarket.

[Zomby Woof]

31. Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Sauce

[robertpaulsen]

32. Sweet Baby Ray's

Thick and sweet. Sounds like you like BBQ the way I do, so that's my recommendation.

[Solly Mack]

34. My own. Homemade

and very very secret. :)

Enjoy your grilling!!!!!

[EstimatedProphet]

36. Agree with KC Masterpiece as a base. Add to it:

a little minced garlic
some onion powder
tabasco
liquid smoke (if you're a heathen and not using hickory chips with charcoal)
splash of rye whiskey
Mix that all together to taste and you'll have a good grilling sauce

[chaska]

37. I wish it weren't so, but Maurices is the best.

[Ksec]

38. secret ingredient

I use besides the usual is grape jelly. It adds that little thing thats usually missing and you cant figure out what it is. It melts btw

[WillParkinson]

39. Open Pit Char-Grill...

Makes food taste like you've cooked it over a charcoal fire.

[Red State Rebel]

40. Maull's - I think it's made here in Missouri n/t

[Dees]

42. Made in St. louis I believe.

[Dees]

41. Doctored KC Masterpiece original. Also, Bryants and Gates...nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

43. The hot sauce from Fresh Air Barbecue in Jackson, GA.

And, as an aside to a previous poster, anyone from Georgia who knows his barbecue will tell you that Fresh Air blows Sonny's out of the water.

[ForrestGump]

45. I've been there, and it was mighty fine

But I still went back to Sonny's. :D

I was a culinary General Sherman marching across the tastes of Georgia, I admit...

[Catshrink]

46. Sweet Baby Ray's from Chicago

even comes in a squeezy bottle now. Yum...

[underpants]

49. Sauers

period