SmoothBoarBBQ
is Blowin Smoke!
I have been making my own sauce for my BBQ lunch service since last July, but recently I've gotten a bit lazy and started putting out Cattlemen's Sauces. I let everybody know I transitioned to "store-bought" sauce and for the most part people are OK with it. I am still making a Cherry Chipotle sauce inspired by Diva Q's sauce in her book though. Personally I LOVE Cattlemen's sauces and it's quite a bit cheaper buying this stuff by the case...and a heck of a lot less time consuming. I was spending roughly 5-7 hours per week making sauce, and now I have that time back to myself.
My only gripe with commercial sauces is the insanely high usage of HFCS. This is why I 100% will not ever buy Sweet Baby Ray's sauce....and I've met Sweet Baby Ray (Raymond) at a BBQ convention and he's a hell of a nice guy. In all of their sauces the #1 ingredient is HFCS and I can't get on board with a sauce composed of mostly a garbage sweetener. On occasion I'll use a bottle of Sonny's sauce from Sam's Club as well, but mostly I stick to Cattlemen's sauces.
My only gripe with commercial sauces is the insanely high usage of HFCS. This is why I 100% will not ever buy Sweet Baby Ray's sauce....and I've met Sweet Baby Ray (Raymond) at a BBQ convention and he's a hell of a nice guy. In all of their sauces the #1 ingredient is HFCS and I can't get on board with a sauce composed of mostly a garbage sweetener. On occasion I'll use a bottle of Sonny's sauce from Sam's Club as well, but mostly I stick to Cattlemen's sauces.