Whats your favorite BBQ sauce?

[latravcha]

I don't use sauce much but when I do I use sause I live some Jack Millers.
Pour it in a sause pan and add a stick or real butter and simmer then mop it on
If I feel like something different I mix JM with SBR about 1/2 and 1/2.

 

[comosmoker]

For pork, I like Sticky Pig and Blues Hogs sauce.  I don't use sauce much either, but when I do, it's those two and Show-Me.  For beef and brisket, I like Arthur Bryants.  I am looking forward to trying Bilbos homemade sauce I got from this forum.  It is supposed to be outstanding!

 

[flyinlizard]

  Jeff s Sauce  by far

 

[chut26]

My normal rub consists of a nice little kick of heat, so I typically will go for a sweet style BBQ sauce. My family and I  have become extremely fond of Sweet Baby Ray's honey BBQ sauce. It is a flat out amazing combo on some baby back ribs with my rub.

 

[jeoberg]

My mom made a BBQ sauce that I loved. She's gone now, but I will make the same sauce with her recipe. Here it is, but you'll never get the taste unless you've had it.

Tomato base - could be canned soup or tomato sauce or tomato paste or even ketchup
Honey or molasses or brown sugar - whatever you have
Apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar
Salt
Pepper
Red pepper flakes
Chili seasoning
Onion powder or diced onions.
Other ingredients to make it taste 'right'

Notice there are no measurements. Mom made the sauce by taste, aroma, consistency, and color. I do it the same way.

 

[ima butcher]

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• ima butcher
• Jul 20, 2013

I use this.

 

[flash]

Make most of my own also. I do use Jeff's for Beef, but sometimes use a store bought from Hillside Orchard called Mrs. Davie's. Otherwise I have a Carolina Sauce for Chicken and Dewey's Dirt Road for another sauce I use on Beef.

 

[zimq]

I really like Montgomery Inn for a finisher on ribs, or another one called Uncle Joes. A couple go- to's that I have from restaurants is Starnes from Paducah Ky, 17th Street, and I really like the sauce Pat Burke serves at his place.

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[up in smoke]

For ribs I seldom sauce, but when I do, of late I have been partial to Johnny Harris Carolina style mustard sauce. On pulled pork I like to use Alabama White sauce (w/horseradish). For tomato base sauces I like Jeff's, (with a bit more heat though). Most times I serve sauce on the side...

 

[centralcarolina]

Homeade is best but my family recently did a taste test of commercial brands, the first of several we will do.  We tried the following:

Sticky Fingers Carolina sweet

Kraft Regular

Sweet Baby Rays Original

Bullseye Kansas City

Bone Suckin sauce

The results  were interesting. Here are the overall results:

1. Sweet Baby Rays-best overall, kind of sweet but balanced flavor

2. Kraft-i know, shocker. Not that sweet but balanced

3. Bone Suckin-kind of like an asian sweet n sour, thinner than the others, good on chicken

4. Sticky Fingers-I liked it, wife did not. Spicy

5. Bullseye KC-Least favorite. Just didn't really care for the flavor

Next Sweet babys will be going up against some others including Stubbs and KC Masterpiece.

 

[cansmoke]

We often use a JD based sauce. Hey, how can you go wrong with Gentleman Jack. (and yup, we put the JD IN the sauce, not in us :D)

 

[smokngun]

One of my favorites is Jim and Nick's habanero sauce. I used to get Oklahoma Joes by the gallon until Jim and Nick's came to town.

 

[specificimpulse]

[SIZE=11pt]No 5 Sauce. (Steve Petrone's recipe)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]1 cup ketchup

1/2 cup cider vinegar

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon worchestershire sauce

1 tablespoon rub


Opional but v. good: 1/4 cup meat drippings

(whats left in the foil after the rest)


Simmer to marry the flavors and thicken as desired.[/SIZE]


 

Another vote for Steve Petrone's No. 5 sauce. This has been my goto sauce for years and always gets rave reviews. Suggest doubling the recipe since it doesn't last very long.

 

[specificimpulse]

Steve Petrone's sauces posted at TVWBB are all killer. My goto sauce is his No. 5 sauce. But for pulled pork, this is my all time favorite:

http://tvwbb.com/showthread.php?29945-Latest-Lexington-(vinegar)Sauce

Vinegar Sauce

2 c vinegar
1/2 c water
1/2 c ketchup
2 T worchestershire sauce
1 T honey
1 T brown sugar
1 t cayene pepper
1 T fresh black pepper
2 t salt
pinch of celery seed

Simmer 20 minutes.

 

[danbury]

Back in the 70s, a Chicago Sun Times Columnist, Mike Royko was obsessed with baby back ribs and had a great deal to do with the Chicago Rib Fest.  One of the prominent BBQ places at the time was Leon's BBQ in Chicago, namely the sauce.  At some point they "reversed engineered" the sauce and printed the recipe in the paper. I cut it out, tried it and have used it ever since.  It's my favorite sauce by far when I do my own bbq and is much better than any store bought sauce I've ever had.  I never buy store bought sauces.

I have, over the years, played around with the original recipe either adding more of something, additional ingreds but in the long run, every time I make ribs or pulled pork, this is my standard.

 

[specificimpulse]

Back in the 70s, a Chicago Sun Times Columnist, Mike Royko was obsessed with baby back ribs and had a great deal to do with the Chicago Rib Fest.  One of the prominent BBQ places at the time was Leon's BBQ in Chicago, namely the sauce.  At some point they "reversed engineered" the sauce and printed the recipe in the paper. I cut it out, tried it and have used it ever since.  It's my favorite sauce by far when I do my own bbq and is much better than any store bought sauce I've ever had.  I never buy store bought sauces.
I have, over the years, played around with the original recipe either adding more of something, additional ingreds but in the long run, every time I make ribs or pulled pork, this is my standard.

I remember Royko and his rib obsession -- grew up in the south suburbs. I think this might be what you're referring to: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/..._1_barbecue-sauce-sauce-recipe-worcestershire

Looks very similar to the Steve Petrone No. 5 sauce, but with more worcestershire and the addition of steak sauce. In any case, that approximate ratio of 6:3:2 ketchup to cider vinegar to brown sugar is a magic base. Great stuff.

 

[danbury]

I remember Royko and his rib obsession -- grew up in the south suburbs. I think this might be what you're referring to: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/..._1_barbecue-sauce-sauce-recipe-worcestershire

Looks very similar to the Steve Petrone No. 5 sauce, but with more worcestershire and the addition of steak sauce. In any case, that approximate ratio of 6:3:2 ketchup to cider vinegar to brown sugar is a magic base. Great stuff.

Yep, that be the one.  I don't use hickory salt in mine and I use Tony's Seasoning.  I use this mainly for pork.  When I do chicken, I saute some shallots in butter but do not caramelize them and then add to the above recipe. I increase the vinegar a bit. I'm a vinegar junkie.  I also cut the cornstarch down a bit. I hate gummy bbq sauce.  I would rather slightly runny sauce.

 

[wormser]

Famous daves has some good ones.  But, lately I've been loading up on Two Fat Guys brand.  It's cleaner/purer and tastes great.

 

[scott sapire]

Generally use BBQ BATH brines and no sauce, but I'm making a sauce tonight...

2 Roast Sweet onions - roast until caramelized

1 24 oz Apple Sauce

1 16 oz Can Apple Juice Concentrate

7 oz Chipotles in Adobo Sauce

Apple Cider Vinegar to taste

Puree all together.

Apple Chipotle BBQ Sauce

 

[smokin joker]

My favorite so far is easily Bob Gibson's Red Sauce. Not a fan of their white sauce, but the red sauce is pretty killer.