Your Favorite Barbecue Sauce?

That's a hard one. Having grown up on the "red sauce" I thought that was BBQ. Moved to the south and discovered mouthwateringlickyourlipsandsuckyourfingersCarolinaBBQ.

Can't beat a good vinegar/hot sauce BBQ.

Yea. Verily I say unto thee.

Your sauce must be of the mustardy-yellow variety, and have affixed on the label, a picture of the man called Maurice Bessinger.

Into this rich, vinegar-like substance, one must chop into infintessimal bitlets, a Vidalia onion (on-yohn), and dash some devlish Tabasco sauce upon the mixture.

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I can eat the shredded BBQ of the Carolina plantations. I find this quite desirable in a plate with 4 sides and some good warm cornbread.
O course when it comes to ribs, I like Trader Joes but I doctor it up so it gets a bit spicier and we add some finely minced garlic and then I thin it out so that the pork (usually ribs) are parboiled and then mop sauced at the last 15 minutes or so.

Juniors beef ribs from Ada Oklahoma, are the best beef ribs I ever et, and they use a homemdae sauce (I could see lots of institutional jugs of Ketchup which, is really the base of most tomatoey sweet BBQ sauces.

God Im a gettin hungry.

WHATEVER you do, dont listen to any of these fools that want you to use mesquite wood.

On chicken, weve found that something like NEwmans Own Rasberry salad dressing is a great BBQ sauce.

That sauce with the black guy on the label with the saying "My life is in these bottles" Thats pretty good too, but its more spicey and less sweet. It is a fine line between the Carolina "pork pickin" sauce and the normal sweet tomatoey BBQ.

Juniors Beef Ribs from Ada? Dang! I thought for sure I was the only other person here that had ever heard of Ada, OK. Had no idea they made great ribs.

Shortly after we married and had daughter, Bear invited a couple of families over. The guys built a wood play set while the women watched. Ended the day with a cook out.

I had bought tons of ribs. Fed the kids first and gave them the little ones. The guys come in sweaty and hungry and ask where the ribs are.

"Right here."

"Those? What are those?"

"Ribs." still smiling and proud of the huge platter of BBQ ribs.

"Uh, those are not pork ribs."

"Oh, no the pork ribs I fed to the kids since they are smaller."

I've never in my life seen more disappointed males. I had no idea, being from the midwest, that pork ribs were preferable in the south. I'll never make that mistake again! I got a LOT of ribbing!

mesquite.
any brand'll do...

heee heee, fool.
Mesquite is a joke . Would you cook your BBQ over shredded telephone poles?

Mesquite makes everything taste like creosote.

whatever, farmerdude.
my taste buds don't lie!

do you smoke tobacco?

Nope, he doesn't.

KC Masterpiece (original recipe) is my favorite, but local Oklahoma's "Head Country" is a close second.

I've got a bottle of something called Redneck Gourmet (Atlanta). It's been in my refrigerator for a couple of years. It won't come out. I think I might need the help of a cell extraction team from Corrections to get at it.

nope.
i just happen to like mesquite-flavored meat

Mesquite is fine for grilling, but the smoke from it tastes horrible. Like cooking with railroad ties.

Anyone try the Cattleman's that is just coming on the market?

Region-dont let any of the texas gang catch you talkin about mesquite. They use it to keep bugs away from cities down there.
I grille with oak or hickoy with some apple or peachwood in the firebin. SMOOOOOTH. No creosote taste on the meat.

i like Sweet Baby Ray's the best!

Cookin ribs fer supper today. I hadem rubbed up with a special sweet and garlicky rub that has a little cornstarch to impart a nice crust on the bark. I made up a sauce out of Stubbs sauce which Ive taken up several notches to borderline hot.
Its basically a KC style with more garlic and mombasa pepper dust. (Mombasa is like scotch bonnet, very hot so I dont use much) the ribs are in the smoker and will be in there till about 5 PM.
FIRST RIBS OF THE COOKOUT SEASON.

ribs sound tasty. and like a lotta work.

I got a steak marinating for ol' smoky.

I'm having salmon.

it's raining, but we don't melt.

no sauce today...

I'm cooking slim jims over a tire fire... To each his own.