Commercial BBQ Sauce

[Dr_KY]

Spocewine all day long! Love the Black and Gold.

[BIGBrandon2785]

Originally Posted by jaymo

If you don't mind sweet there's always Blues Hog. It is really sweet though. I usually use it with some habanero hot sauce (either Melinda's or one of many jamaican varieties) blended in for some additional heat.

I bought some Blues Hog for a Memorial Day party.Its pretty much a glaze not a sauce,And out of the bottle its way to sweet but actually with a decent rub on RIBS!!!Its the perfect mix of sweet and salt.I got nothing but great reviews!!!

And me personally,I say dont even taste it out the bottle (cuz its SWEET) just drizzle it on ribs or chicken wings and call it a day.

[jaymo]

Yeah. I tend to use it more as a glaze than an actual sauce I guess. I didn't think about that since I prefer things to just have a nice light glaze anyway. Shows off the meat & rub flavors more. Over-sauce things and it's like eating a bunch of sauce with texture. . .

[Crash]

Tracy with BBQPHX.com has some amazing sauce. Perfectly balanced.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way, it's just a great sauce. So good that I had to order 12 bottles.

We're using it straight out of the bottle for pork and thinning it with AJ for a chicken glaze.

[Valeres]

Kind of hard to find these, Ive tasted alot of commercial sauces and these are the most unique:

BBQ Petes Puyallup Fair sauce, Kent, WA
John E Burns Bold, Temecula CA

Other than that I usually make my own sauce, I dont use ketchup as a base and I will add ingredients like Hoisin sauce and agave nectar and overripe bananas if im looking for something unique.

[BONESDILLIGAF]

I am new here, I have read quite a few of the threads.... but I am rather disappointed to see how many of you use pre-made sauces. Now I am not in your kitchens, so I have no real idea why... is it more of a time constraint thing? Or is it that you have never taken the leap to experiment with making your own? I BBQ and Grill a lot, and financially it is much cheaper to make my own sauces and rubs, and quite frankly it is much easier to adjust flavors for differing uses.. ie honey base / molasses base / brown sugar / vinegar / pepper
the other advantage is of course making the sauce with the rub you are using, and enhancing the rubs flavor with the sauce instead of competing flavor profiles.

anyway, I was just wondering why the large amount of pre-made sauce use.
thanks

~BONES~

[Sledneck]

Originally Posted by Grumpy T

Lately my favorite commercial sauce has been the Budweiser sauce... Dont like their beer but the sauce is pretty good

+1. On the bud sauce, I picked up a bottle of the reg and the honey one, hooked on it, hidden gem

[toadhunter911]

I like Moe Prichett's, bottled in Kalamazoo, Mi. Sells for around $5.00 at Sam's Clubs in Michigan.

[MilitantSquatter]

Originally Posted by BONESDILLIGAF

I am new here, I have read quite a few of the threads.... but I am rather disappointed to see how many of you use pre-made sauces. Now I am not in your kitchens, so I have no real idea why... is it more of a time constraint thing? Or is it that you have never taken the leap to experiment with making your own? I BBQ and Grill a lot, and financially it is much cheaper to make my own sauces and rubs, and quite frankly it is much easier to adjust flavors for differing uses.. ie honey base / molasses base / brown sugar / vinegar / pepper
the other advantage is of course making the sauce with the rub you are using, and enhancing the rubs flavor with the sauce instead of competing flavor profiles.

anyway, I was just wondering why the large amount of pre-made sauce use.
thanks

~BONES~

I started out making my own rubs & sauces.. Several years and many recipes and testing. A lot from Paul Kirk's books... A few excellent, Most good, some OK and some blah...

Then I learned about Bill Arnold Blues Hog sauce line... Quickly realized I can never make a sweet sauce (original) or a vinegar sauce (Tennesee Red) as good as that.. and it's even harder if you mix the two.

Still, I like to try other unique sauces & rubs out there...and once in a blue moon I'll make a little homemade stuff but it's been a while.

[speedrcer1]

Originally Posted by meatinc

Try Drapers - excellent!

http://www.drapersbbq.com/

I second this. Drapers is good stuff!

[NOHENS]

Originally Posted by jaymo

If you don't mind sweet there's always Blues Hog. It is really sweet though. I usually use it with some habanero hot sauce (either Melinda's or one of many jamaican varieties) blended in for some additional heat.

Brother! Don't hear many people talk about Melinda's!!!! I LOVE MELINDA'S!!!!! My favorite is Scotch Bonnett!!!! I eat it on everything!! Even Ice cream!

Not to hi-jack..sorry I got excitted thinking about Melinda's at work. I love a sauce in stores here called Mississippi sweet and spicy. I don't use it all the time but it sounds like your taste...sweet with a little bite. It has a steamboat on the front of the bottle if you google it.

[NOHENS]

Just found the link....here ya go! I love it.http://www.mississippibbq.com/Products.html

[BigButzBBQ]

Originally Posted by BONESDILLIGAF

I am new here, I have read quite a few of the threads.... but I am rather disappointed to see how many of you use pre-made sauces. Now I am not in your kitchens, so I have no real idea why... is it more of a time constraint thing? Or is it that you have never taken the leap to experiment with making your own? I BBQ and Grill a lot, and financially it is much cheaper to make my own sauces and rubs, and quite frankly it is much easier to adjust flavors for differing uses.. ie honey base / molasses base / brown sugar / vinegar / pepper
the other advantage is of course making the sauce with the rub you are using, and enhancing the rubs flavor with the sauce instead of competing flavor profiles.

anyway, I was just wondering why the large amount of pre-made sauce use.
thanks

~BONES~

I can't count the number of people that have said to me "I make my own sauce and I think it's the best." and the shock on their faces when I respond with "That's awesome! You should like the sauce that YOU make yourself the best." The next thing that is always asked is "Well, if that's the case, then why should I buy yours?" My response? "The best sauce anyone can have is the one they make themselves. It's precisely tuned to a persons flavor profiles, tastes, and likes. But, there are those times when you go to reach for a bottle of your perfect homebrewed sauce and find you don't quite have enough to do what you want to do or even worse, you get sprung upon to cook something and you haven't had enough time to make your special sauce. What you need in those cases is a good backup. Something that you know you can go to in a pinch that has been hand crafted and had just as much care and love go into the making of it as you put into yours. Think of my sauces not trying to outshine yours but, as a good backup that is going to be there when you need it."

Of course, if someone always wants to use a back up as their main go-to, I won't hold it against them.

[RevZiLLa]

As long as it doesn't contain liquid smoke, I don't mind a convenient sauce. The meat is already on the smoker, so why should I pour fake smoke flavor over the real thing? If you need added smoke flavor, I find that smoked paprika is not fake tasting.

[Boshizzle]

If you want a well rounded stock of BBQ sauce, you have to have some Scott's Eastern North Carolina sauce on hand.