IamMadMan
somebody shut me the fark up.
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2011
- Location
- Pemberton, New Jersey
IamMadMan, OK, so you entirely put your trust into somebody else making yours, blindly believing they are living up to your hopes. OK. I'm different.
And your reference to pliers on a screw irks me friend. I carry a 30+ pound tool bag for the electrical work I used to do. Each tool has it's purpose. All of them in concert allowed me to accel in my craft. I retired before many sad faces to see me remove myself from the training and learning pool.
You can't really be that naive as to think a commercial rub is so pure. Bannana's. They gather that which is available at the time of need, blend and tweak it, bottle and send it out. But you believe what you want to believe.
Far be it from me to pop your bubble.
You're not popping my bubble at all ...
You simply asked;
"I see where many here buy this or that commercial rubs. And I have to ask:
Why? Why not build your own?"
- then you want to find fault with my reply because I don't agree with you. . But, I'm also not the one in the bubble.
I didn't find fault with your choice, I only replied why I make my choice. I'm sorry that you can't accept another person's point of view when you asked for it.
Besides designing electronic/bio metric access control and programing, I have also designed and implemented networks for asset protection. So I fully understand using the right tool for the right job. Retiring from an electronics background, I completely understand each and every tool has a specific purpose and they should be used properly. But I have also seen many idiots who think they are a qualified technician destroy the hard work of designing, fabricating, and integration of a working system by using the wrong tools in the wrong application (IE:trying to use pliers to remove tri-wing security screws).
I also have been teaching culinary arts students for over 8 years with the differences in types of salts, spices, and how different types/species impart greatly different flavors.
I even stated that not all commercial rubs are created equally. There are some producers who focus on high quality, while other producers focus on high profit. Yes a good rub producer selects specific salts, specific species, from specific regions, and of course they cost more due to the ingredients.
So no, I am not really so naive to think that all commercial rubs are pure. But I did do my homework, to find that there are some producers who use specific top shelf ingredients, without anti-clumping agents, artificial ingredients, and fillers. Trying to create these at home using the same spices, would make a homemade version far too expensive for an individual to make, let alone the fact that the high priced spices would probably lose their potency before one could fully use them up. Producers can buy in bulk at greatly reduced prices, and use them at a quicker pace. I also understand that electronics used in quality control can measure purity standards and levels of essential oils. But, I'm not so naive to believe that a rub made by measure with grocery store salt and spices can really be better than a hand weighed/hand mixed quality small batch commercial rub producer either. The quality producers do not stock their items to sit on shelves and lose their potency; But rather they are made in small hand crafted batches that are made with the demand for the product.
Bottom line is that one will use what they think is best, and some will never leave their comfort zone. That is fine, I don't fault anyone for their choice, we use what we like.
Others have stated previously that buying high quality spices is expensive, couple that with the time it takes to order them from purveyors of fine spices, the time it takes to weigh them, and and the time it takes to blend them. For me, I'd rather be spending time with my wife and Grandchildren. I just don't need to re-invent the wheel when a good variety of them already exist.
Just like many other things related to BBQ, we are all entitled to our opinions and findings, and I am fine with that concept because I am accepting to what other individuals like to do.
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