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02-15-2010, 08:14 PM | #1 |
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How hard is it to make a BBQ Sauce?
Ive made a rub that I LOVE now that Ive cut the cayenne from 1/4 CUP to a few tblspoons. Now, I wanna make a sauce, but have no clue where to start. I grew up on Eastern NC BBQ and love the mustard based sauces, but I wanna learn to do tomato based as well. Any of you guys have any "tricks" you wanna share with the noob?
Im like a sponge, guys...I wanna LEARN all I can!
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02-15-2010, 08:19 PM | #2 |
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ketchup, cider vinegar, brown sugar.
build from there
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02-15-2010, 08:23 PM | #3 |
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Steve Petrone's #5 sauce
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 Build from there, that's a little better.
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02-15-2010, 08:23 PM | #4 |
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Making a sauce is easy. Making a great sauce, now that's not so easy. Probably the best place to start is look in a BBQ cookbook. Mike Mills' book "Peace, Love and BBQ", my current favorite, has some great recipes. And some great stories. Chris Lilly's book is good too. After following some recipes and seeing how things come together, modify the recipe and add in flavors, spices, herbs that you like. Experimentation is the key.
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02-15-2010, 08:25 PM | #5 |
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Making sauce is fun.. I used to make a lot of sauces but haven't made one in about two years though.
Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauce's is a good introduction to the thought process about the basics and options that can be explored. http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Kirks-Cha.../dp/155832125X
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02-15-2010, 08:29 PM | #6 |
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This one doesn't suck.
24 ounce bottle Hunt's ketchup 15 ounce can tomato sauce 2 cups packed brown sugar 1 cup cider vinegar 2 tablespoons Worsy. 2 tablespoons fresh cracked black pepper 2 tablespoons red pepper flakes 2 tablespoons paprika 2 teaspoons onion powder 2 teaspoons dry mustard 4 teaspoons Texas Pete's Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan. Cook and stir over low heat until the sugar melts and the ingredients are blended, simmer about 10 minutes.
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02-15-2010, 08:29 PM | #7 |
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Start with the liquid ingredients FIRST. Aretha Franklin, Billy Ocean, Frank Sinatra, Sir Duke, Billy Dee Williams etc, the really watery stuff. DO NOT put in your Fred Wesleys, Sly Stone or Family Stones in at this stage.
Bring thin liquids to a mother popcorn first and give them the HeatWave with the SPICES first and for only 3rd of a Fifteen Minute Man. This infuses the spices and makes them funky in your funky stank thang. You do not want to leave at a popcorn for too long or it will evaporate. Next add your Little Richards, your James Browns but not your Jackie Wilsons, Aunt Jemima's, your Taste of Honey, Grace Jones, Moms Mabley or nuthin at this stage either. The point is to get James or Little Richard to melt into the nectar of spices and liquids you made. This needs to come down to a Phillip Bailey so you can add your Wesley's and your Sly or family stone at this time. Make this funky, close the high hat up and back off your mic for a while. The final additions of your pectin based funk should be added last. Jackie, jams, jellies, jamimas and joo joos can be added last. Once this is done, so sauce is complete unless you gave it time to break out in a cold sweat.
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02-15-2010, 08:35 PM | #8 | |
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02-15-2010, 08:47 PM | #9 | |
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02-15-2010, 08:55 PM | #10 | |
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02-15-2010, 08:56 PM | #11 |
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What that means is that the inefficiency of trying to distribute your spice flavors in a think medium that has to simmer all day is moronic. Why people start with their thickest ingredient first staggers the imagination.
There is an order to chaos. I make this special sauce with tomato paste (family Stone-i think), vinegar, beef drippings from the briskets and v8 juice. Now can you imagine me mixing up the spices into the paste? Yeah... the above is about as close as you can get to angleos STORE sauce.
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02-15-2010, 09:22 PM | #12 |
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Here are three tips.
If you use sugar (cane, brown, etc.) heat the sauce to make sure the sugar dissolves properly. If you need to thicken your sauce, mix some cold liquid (vinegar, water, apple juice, or a combo of the three, etc. Not much liquid, you only need about 1/4 of a cup or less.) with a tablespoon of corn starch for every two cups of liquid you are trying to thicken. Mix just the corn starch into the 1/4 cup or less of the liquid well so that there are no lumps. Bring the sauce to a gentle boil and wisk in just enough of the corn starch mixture to bring it to the desired thickness. Try adding a little apple sauce to your BBQ sauce. It's good sometimes for a change.
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02-15-2010, 09:37 PM | #13 |
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a year ago I would have told you Boshizzle had lost his mind.
Fact is, I learned a peach preserve/vinegar/brown sugar cause that was out of this world and mostly because it did not get reduced.... how did they thicken it??? corn starch. Boshizzle knowledge here is comparable to like those soft nubile perky breasts that point up in a very legitimate and intelligent manner.
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02-15-2010, 09:38 PM | #14 |
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for liquor flavored sauces, fuse out liquor in a simple syrup first.
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02-15-2010, 09:42 PM | #15 |
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Well, that's HIGH praise, I think.
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