We tried making our own sauce at first. We believe we have an excellent recipe and have received great feedback and many compliments on our product. However, we have a small operation (limited catering and vending since we have day jobs) so the process of cooking/storing our homemade sauce is more time than we want to spend on that item. Also, since we were producing relatively small batches the ingredient costs were higher (no volume purchasing of ingredients) and makes using commercial sauce (we like Curley's BBQ Sauce) a more feasible option.