What's your favorite BBQ sauce?

[gigahertz20]

Sweet Baby Rays.

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Sweet Baby Rays is good for those people that like the typical mass produced cheap ingredient BBQ sauce. It's one of those sauces you pickup for a 4th of July BBQ, not one of the specialty ones you save for yourself. The difference between a widely available commercial BBQ sauce like Sweet Baby Rays and a specialty one like Lauren's Salt Lick Spicy Recipe BBQ sauce is like going from commercial store bought ice cream to Gelato.




From:

http://www.bbqsaucereviews.com/barbecuesaucereviews/sweet-baby-rays-barbecue-sauce-45/

The sauce is like a mixture of candy and BBQ Sauce. At KCBS Certified BBQ Judging class, I met a guy named Don who “cuts” Sweet Baby Ray’s with Dinosaur BBQ Sauce in order to lower the sweets level… and it makes sense - it is super sweet. If you’ve never had the sauce, you’ve got to try it. Although it’s heavy on the sugars and HFCS it is an even flavor, super-sticky, smoothly sweet, with no negative aftertaste or vinegar aftertaste whatsoever. A very plain, safe sauce for everyone. It’s like BBQ sauce for kids and families - the mass market product of choice for quite a few people. Minor points off for what comes with typical mass production - cheaper ingredients, HFCS, preservatives.

Smell - 4
Taste - 4
Consistency - 5
Ingredients - 3
Label and Marketing - 3

Ingredients:

High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Modified Food Starch, Contains less than 2% of: Salt, Pineapple Juice, Natural Smoke Flavor, Spices, Caramel, Color, Sodium Benzoate as a Preservative, Molasses, Corn Syrup, Dried Garlic, Sugar, Tamarind Natural Flavor.

If any of you want to try a real BBQ sauce and not some crappy commercial based one like Sweet Baby Rays, try one from this list:

http://www.bbqsaucereviews.com/best-bbq-sauces/

 

[gigahertz20]

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[Dr. Detroit]

Stubbs Spicy

Do not like the overpowering HFCS taste of so many BBQ sauces today.

Bulls Eye is my favorite supermarket shelf common sauce.

 

[Brutus04]

Gotta go with KC Masterpiece...

 

[Bird222]

Is there a good place to order some of the 'better' sauces if you wanted to try a few?

 

[zinfamous]

I don't understand all this love for Sweet Baby Ray's. it's just sugar. Do you people not derive from the real BBQ regions of this country?



Of course, I'm the type that comes from the origin of BBQ--the state that introduced all you poseurs to the method of slow cooking a gigantic pig (get the fuck out of here with that beef!) for hours upon hours upon hours over hot smoking coals--North motherfucking Carolina. And of course, we don't use sauce, b/c it taints the precious meat.

...unless you're talking about those western NC bastards--those fucks don't know what's going on. :sneaky:


EDIT: though I will say that when it comes to ribs, (which we don't really do as well, and you other Johnny-come-latelys are quite good at), I like sauce about as much as I like a dry rub. Both are quite awesome, but as far as sauce goes, tangy > sweet. and spice too. shit's gotta be on fire.

 

[chr6]

is heinz 57 considered a bbq sauce?

i like famous daves as well (sweet and zesty)

 

[OCGuy]

For a chain BBQ place, Lucille's Spicy BBQ sauce is pretty damn good.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Good barbecue doesn't need barbecue sauce. Actually mentioning BBQ sauce in some circles in Texas will get your mouth slapped.

 

[Fritzo]

Good barbecue doesn't need barbecue sauce. Actually mentioning BBQ sauce in some circles in Texas will get your mouth slapped.

That's pretty much untrue. In fact, sweet/spicy sauce pretty much came from that area of the country. The KC area is famous for it's rubs and they may use less sauce around there. The Carolinas like to use mustard and vinegar based sauces that I find to be a travesty to my tastebuds

 

[JulesMaximus]

Honestly, I have yet to taste a commercially available BBQ sauce that I liked right out of the jar. It depends more on the meat and no one sauce does all meats well IMO. I've been experimenting with making my own sauces, focusing mainly on pork ribs, for years and I have yet to find one that really wows me...the search continues.

 

[BoberFett]

Amen to that. It's #1 ingredient is High Fructose Corn Syrup, that's sad.

My favorite is Original Montgomery Inn Barbeque Sauce which originated here in Cincinnati.

It's #1 ingredient? Tomatoes.

Yup, Sweet Baby Ray's is nothing but corn syrup.

For store bought, we like Ken Davis. It's still got sugar but at least there's more tomato paste in it than sugar.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Good barbecue doesn't need barbecue sauce. Actually mentioning BBQ sauce in some circles in Texas will get your mouth slapped.

Amen, BBQ sauce is for dry leftovers and maybe chopped sandwiches

 

[spidey07]

Carolina red vinegar sauce. It's for BBQ gods only, of which I am a member.

Anybody that says good BBQ doesn't need a sauce it "technically" correct. But it's so much incredibly better with a bit of carolina red vinegar sauce. If you disagree you are wrong and don't know shit about BBQ and can get your sauce from New York City!

New York City!!!???

 

[MrPickins]

A friend who lives down in Texas sent me a bottle of the Salt Lick Spicy BBQ sauce, OMG, I was ready to pour it on cereal and ice cream after I tasted it.
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You should head down this way and taste their brisket. It's the best around, IMO.

As they say "you can smell our pits for miles!" ^_^

 

[slashbinslashbash]

You should head down this way and taste their brisket. It's the best around, IMO.

As they say "you can smell our pits for miles!" ^_^

It's funny, there are some places where I like the meat better than the sauce, and others where I like the sauce better than the meat. Dickeys: sauce = better than meat. Railhead = meat better than sauce. There are places where one or the other is just plain bad. I don't go to those places.

I tried some Sweet Baby Ray's this past weekend (it was all that our 4th of July hosts had). Ugh. Sugary crap. I didn't want to ruin the brisket with it, but it went decently with some spicy sausage. It also made for some very good grilled chicken as a marinade/baste.

 

[ElFenix]

That's pretty much untrue. In fact, sweet/spicy sauce pretty much came from that area of the country. The KC area is famous for it's rubs and they may use less sauce around there. The Carolinas like to use mustard and vinegar based sauces that I find to be a travesty to my tastebuds

you should leave before you get your mouth slapped. you obviously have no clue wtf you are talking about.


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It's funny, there are some places where I like the meat better than the sauce, and others where I like the sauce better than the meat. Dickeys: sauce = better than meat. Railhead = meat better than sauce. There are places where one or the other is just plain bad. I don't go to those places.

I tried some Sweet Baby Ray's this past weekend (it was all that our 4th of July hosts had). Ugh. Sugary crap. I didn't want to ruin the brisket with it, but it went decently with some spicy sausage. It also made for some very good grilled chicken as a marinade/baste.

dickeys is typical mass market barbecue. it's probably a little better than luther's was, but not quite as decent as pappas barbecue (not the old luther's locations). none of them have an actual pit, they use large bread ovens with a small smoker box.

if i'm going with chain barbecue it's rudy's. real smoker using real wood for both heat and smoke. plus the sause is boss.

 

[Chaotic42]

I like Stubb's

 

[QueBert]

Is there a good place to order some of the 'better' sauces if you wanted to try a few?

famousdaves.com, they make 7 different sauces so if you like or don't like sweet, hot whaterver, they got you covered. I've had 4 of their 7 sauces and can say without question they're 4 of the best I've ever had. Price isn't too bad either. If you have a location close to you, stop in and pick some up. Better than Stubbs or Sweet Rays. My local supermarket now carries 2 types, I think I'ma run up there and pick up a bottle of Sweet & Sassy.

 

[Gothgar]

you should leave before you get your mouth slapped. you obviously have no clue wtf you are talking about.


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dickeys is typical mass market barbecue. it's probably a little better than luther's was, but not quite as decent as pappas barbecue (not the old luther's locations). none of them have an actual pit, they use large bread ovens with a small smoker box.

if i'm going with chain barbecue it's rudy's. real smoker using real wood for both heat and smoke. plus the sause is boss.

I love when people get all uppity about BBQ

 

[zinfamous]

That's pretty much untrue. In fact, sweet/spicy sauce pretty much came from that area of the country. The KC area is famous for it's rubs and they may use less sauce around there. The Carolinas like to use mustard and vinegar based sauces that I find to be a travesty to my tastebuds

vinegar based, for Eastern NC, is really the only way to do it. and it isn't a sauce. It's just vinegar, more or less.

but yes, mustard is fucking horrible in this application, but that is SC.

You can't really mention "The Carolinas" as some homogeneous region when it comes to BBQ. Seriously, those who know, understand that regional wars start over this stuff. Hell, even in NC, there is a huge battle between eastern vs western style--eastern being the only real way to do it, of course. Those heathens in western NC do use BBQ sauce. bleh.

 

[zinfamous]

Carolina red vinegar sauce. It's for BBQ gods only, of which I am a member.

Anybody that says good BBQ doesn't need a sauce it "technically" correct. But it's so much incredibly better with a bit of carolina red vinegar sauce. If you disagree you are wrong and don't know shit about BBQ and can get your sauce from New York City!

New York City!!!???

Well, I would say that anything named "Carolina Red vinegar sauce" is a complete contradiction in terms. and it is just flat-out wrong!

We just don't tolerate that kind of blasphemy in our neck of the woods.

:sneaky:

 

[joesmoke]

New York City!!!???

geta rope!

 

[Gibson486]

Bulls-Eye

 

[Fritzo]

you should leave before you get your mouth slapped. you obviously have no clue wtf you are talking about.


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I see...so one hick store that nobody's heard of did something a long time ago, and therefore it set the standard of how everyone should eat barbeque. Gotcha.