Rubs, Spices and Turbinado...

[GIRLYQUE]

I am doing some online shopping for some Spices...

Wanted to try some of the Turbinado Sugar and needed a few odds and ends. I found a Beer Extract Powder. I'm all for the use of beer in any kind of BBQ! Any thoughts on how it might be in rub?

I also recently tried Smuckers Peach flavored ice tea mix in a rub and it was really good..... got a few strange looks but then I saw it on the BBQu show after the fact....so I guess it wasn't all that far fetched after all!

 

[Arlin_MacRae]

GQ -

I looked up that beer extract powder, 'cause I'd never heard of it, and here's what's inside: Maltodextrin, barley, malt, corn syrup, hops, and yeast. It seems to me to be just...dried beer. Being a home brewer and general, all-around beer lover, I like to use it on my Q, too, but I really can't tell you how a pure, dried extract would taste in a rub. More importantly - how much do you use?? <shrug>

My wife's got lots of peach tea powder laying around and I think I'll follow your path and try that in a pork rub. Sounds interesting!

Arlin

 

[The Woodman]

Girly, do yourself a favor and search out some "muscovado" sugar. This is the "extra virgin" stuff of sugar. It is the first stuff to be refined. The Brits love to drink it in tea. I use it straight on ribs when I foil for a WONDERFUL glaze! It has little dark brown chunks in it that are delicious! It is $6.00 / lb though , but well worth the experiment. Very moist!

 

[Kevin]

Girly, do yourself a favor and search out some "muscovado" sugar. This is the "extra virgin" stuff of sugar. It is the first stuff to be refined. The Brits love to drink it in tea. I use it straight on ribs when I foil for a WONDERFUL glaze! It has little dark brown chunks in it that are delicious! It is $6.00 / lb though , but well worth the experiment. Very moist!

I've got a big jug of Demerara cane sugar. Anyone know much about this?
It's labeled as natural sugar, milled the same day of harvest. Looks like turbinado. From Florida Crystals Food corporation.

 

[Brauma]

Ok Girly, you almost had me with Beer Extract. I was tempted for 5 seconds. But then I thought - what the heck for??!! I have real beer around here all the time. Ive got Rum extract, orange and butter pecan all for making twice smoked ham.

 

[qman]

I've got a big jug of Demerara cane sugar. Anyone know much about this?
It's labeled as natural sugar, milled the same day of harvest. Looks like turbinado. From Florida Crystals Food corporation.

A "Demerara" sugar from Florida and a Turbinado should be essentially the same product. The names are basically interchangeabe. The name Demerara actually comes from an African source of sugar and is basically the European name for turbinado or "sugar in the raw". Muscavado is a more moist version of the same. All are produced by drying boiled down sugar cane syrup. Brown sugar is produced by completly refining the cane syrup, then adding back molassas to give the simple white sugar the flavor and color desired.

 

[CarbonToe]

I've got a big jug of Demerara cane sugar. Anyone know much about this?.

You can't get turbinado in the UK, from what I've read Demerara and Turinado are exactly the same stuff, and luckily for me Demerara is real easy to lay my hands on! :wink:

 

[Kevin]

Thanks Qman and CT. Good info.

 

[BBQ_MAFIA]

Beer Extract?

So if you put a spoon full in a glass of water do you get instant beer?

I so I'm getting some for work.

 

[CarbonToe]

Beer Extract?

Dried Beer Extract™ is a natural beer flavor prepared by spraydrying beer with maltodextrin. The water and alcohol are removed, leaving concentrated beer flavor in free-flowing form. You no longer have to mix in liquid beer or steam the product to get that sweet yeasty taste. The combination of flavors is a taste experience without the concerns of safety, licensing, refrigeration, handling, and added cooking time.


Sounds like a waste of a good pint!!!! :lol:

I'd rather reduce beer in a saucepan and add that to my food than have someone spraydrying beer with maltodextrin (whatever that is!)

GirlyQue - Did you get around to testing some in a rub? How did it come out?

 

[GIRLYQUE]

Not yet...just ordered it. So hopefully it will come tomorrow or Monday.

But...the adventurer that I am....

I found myself low on BBQ Sauce. Just had a tiny bit to use on some babybacks that were to be grilled. Not nearly enough so I went to the fridge to see what I had that might strech it out a bit....

Came up with honey and apple butter (the kind to put on toast)
Wow!!! It turned out wonderful. I really like sweet tasting sauce as well as really spicy. Can't tell you how much of each...I just kept adding until I liked it!
But I'll be doing that again soon!

 

[The Woodman]

I use straight Texas Pepper JElly on ribs and they are WONDERFUL!

www.texaspepperjelly.com

I recommend the pineapple habanero. Woody

 

[NCGrimbo]

maltodextrin (whatever that is!)

"maltodextrins are easily digestible carbohydrates made from natural corn starch. The starch is cooked, and then acid and/or enzymes are used to break the starch into smaller polymers (a process similar to that used by the body to digest carbohydrate)."

:grin:

 

[GIRLYQUE]

I use straight Texas Pepper JElly on ribs and they are WONDERFUL!

www.texaspepperjelly.com

I recommend the pineapple habanero. Woody

That sounds really good!
I'll have to give it a try
thanks!

 

[stan]

I also agree with the Pineapple Habenero TPJ.

 

[CarbonToe]

"maltodextrins are easily digestible carbohydrates made from natural corn starch. The starch is cooked, and then acid and/or enzymes are used to break the starch into smaller polymers (a process similar to that used by the body to digest carbohydrate)."

:grin:

So how does that convert my pint from a chilled glass of heaven into a pile of dust? It sounds like a major component of a WMD!