Sauce

[Paymaster]

On another Board in which I am a moderator(Hunting Forum), I was remarking about a Butt I'd smoked and the homeade sauce that my daughter made that was great . A lady remarked about how us Georgians are always going on about sauce and that if the meat had been great that there was no need for sauce. Is sauce a bad word in Texas? She is from Texas. I have always thought sauce was part of the BBQ process, whether basted on or added after cooking as I always have done.

[TexLaw]

A lot of Texans talk about how the meat should be so good that you don't need or even want any sauce, and we mean it. The truth is, though, there's always some on the side.


TL

[Zilla]

Always! For me. :D

[kpigout]

I always put sauce on the side. It's the choice of the consumer whether to use it or not. I usually do.

[bigwheel]

Yeppers...bbq without sauce is like bread without no butter on it.

bigwheel

[freefaller]

I was in agreement til I started using TPJ instead of sauce. I put a little on the bun and add the meat, much better than sauce. My wife is a convert as well.

[gordo]

Well I like sauce on the side, Like TL said good bbq meat don't need sauce, same with a good steak... Ive seen some surveys from contest entry's that you cant see the meat through the sauce, to me thats a sauce contest, not bbq contest...To me there is a difference between a light glaze and running down your arm sauced meat...Same with steak, something marinated in pineapple or teriyaki sauce is different from pouring
ketchup or 1/2 bottle of A1 all over the top of it...IMHO..
gordo

[david brace]

Restaurants can take the time to print their menu and then you can read it and decide if that's the way you want it done. If you don't, then you MIGHT try asking the chef to do it a different way, although almost all chefs like it THEIR way.Your other choice is to order something else.

If you cater an affair for pay or for friends, you can't be altering the food for everyone's taste, it would take forever. So in that case, the condiments are on the side. But VERY often the person will just pour on the salt, pepper, ketchup, whatever, without tasting it at all. This drives me nuts...

DB

[Big Mike]

I eat mine both ways. I posted a while back that I feel a good sauce used correctly can compliment the meat but the sauce should never drown the meat.


Mike

[WBC]

I use BBQ sauce in sandwiches and on bread while I eat BBQ. Also is tasty in the beans. I don't like it on BBQ though, unless the BBQ is so bad you HAVE to have it to keep from gagging.

[BBQ101]

:lol: Sauce on the side for me. I put just a touch of sauce in my pulled pork. Before I foil my ribs I like to give the a light coating of TPJ and Honey. Then when I unfoil em I use a home made BBQ sauce for the last 30 minutes while I tighten up the ribs on the smoker. Brisket is always just TexasBbqRub. :wink:

[M38A1]

Sauce on the side for me, and I serve it on the side. If the partakers of my cooking want it, it's there.

~m38a1

[Mic]

Same here...sauce on the side! :) It's gives folks a choice. Most who eat my Q say it's not needed. 8)

Mic

[david brace]

seems like everybody like the sauce on the side. Imagine if every hamburger came with ketchup on it? you had no choice...Ketchup-that's it. If every plate of eggs had salt on it...

DB

[cudaman]

Not from The Great State of Texas myself but must agree with them on the sauce. Use Bill's rub for the cook, and keep the sauce on the side.

[Thom Emery]

Unless you are glazing the sause as in Ribs lol would have to be on the Ribs .I could see Sause on the side in Brisket. I love slaw on Puller Pork
but that is new to lots of folk

[TexLaw]

About the only time I add sauce is with chopped beef. Chopped beef just seems to need a little something. That said, I often have it without sauce, and I'm just as happy as a clam.

I often throw a little sauce in the pulled pork, too, since that's just the way they do it over there. :D


TL

[TB]

...I was remarking about a Butt I'd smoked and the homeade sauce that my daughter made that was great . A lady remarked about how us Georgians are always going on about sauce and that if the meat had been great that there was no need for sauce. ...
David, your brisket is great without sauce; but I'd serve your daughter's sauce on the side with a straw.

[david brace]

...I often throw a little sauce in the pulled pork, too...
I agree with TL on this BIG TIME. I love pulled pork a little juicy. The best I ever had was in Jacksonville, Fl years ago (think I spoke to Michelob on this before)and the thing was very moist, but the taste was perfect. Since then I've been comparing all pulled pork to that, but nothing has hit it just right.

I hear in Feb sometime we're going for a ride down to Flow-dah, so I'm gonna look around to try and find the place.

DB

[Mic]

...I often throw a little sauce in the pulled pork, too...
I agree with TL on this BIG TIME. I love pulled pork a little juicy. The best I ever had was in Jacksonville, Fl years ago (think I spoke to Michelob on this before)and the thing was very moist, but the taste was perfect. Since then I've been comparing all pulled pork to that, but nothing has hit it just right.

I hear in Feb sometime we're going for a ride down to Flow-dah, so I'm gonna look around to try and find the place.

DB

Let me know DB when yer coming and I'll take ya to it! Ya probably won't recognize Jax. :? It's growin big time! :shock:

Mic

[Rookie]

I'll throw a wrench in because I can. I don't like BBQ sauce unless it has been cooked on the meat. It seems to me that raw BBQ sauce (by raw I mean straight out of the bottle) has a sharper taste that mellows when it's cooked. If it's on the meat, I'm more than happy to eat it. If it's off to the side, it stays on the side. With that being said, I haven't used BBQ sauce on my food in quite a while - TPJ cooked on the meat for me.

Rookie

[bearbonez]

I eats my ribs an chicken with a lil sauce mopped on for the last hour of smoking. I dont use any at the table, but have some on the side for those that do. I'll sauce pulled pork and put on a bun or texas toast with some slaw on it. Same with leftover brisket on a samich for lunch or sumthin.
Other types o meats usually get a glaze of sorts dependin on what I'm in the mood fer.

[Paymaster]

TB thanks for the compliment, I showed it to my Daughter and she was grinning.

I do not put sauce on meat that I smoke. It gets put on the side when served for anyone wanting it. I will only use sauce when I am cooking if I am grilling. I was just wondering if sauce was a no no in Texas. Seems most of yall look at sauce the same as me. I love the taste of my Daughters sauces and don't have a problem with dipping my smoked pork or beef in it on the side.

[Thom Emery]

David What do ya do with your Ribs?

[vinman]

I use BBQ sauce in sandwiches and on bread while I eat BBQ. Also is tasty in the beans. I don't like it on BBQ though, unless the BBQ is so bad you HAVE to have it to keep from gagging.


You musta has some of my BBQ blake :wink:

[Woodman]

on the ribs, side for all else.

[Paymaster]

Git ur done, I usually baste ribs with apple juice during smoking and then foil with apple pieces and juice inside the foil.I have used a rub but not often.
I like ribs smoked and no sauce. Others in my family want sauce to pour on during the meal. If I am grilling I brush sauce on at the end. My wife likes it that way.Mostly chops but sometimes ribs. I always leave me some sauceless. I guess I like sauce for dipping everything else or adding to sandwiches, just not on my ribs.

[Thom Emery]

David
I am still working on Comp. Ribs They need ta be saused ta get a call in Calif.

[TB]

I love chicken. I usually sauce it at the end of the cook. In fact, that's my favorite Q.

[Uncle Al]

Don't know why, but I lightly glaze my BB's with sauce mixed with some frozen apple juice concentrate, but I leave spares naked with sauce on the side.

Al

[TB]

Don't know why, but I lightly glaze my BB's with sauce mixed with some frozen apple juice concentrate, but I leave spares naked with sauce on the side.

Al

That's just another example of Bostonian discrimination. :lol:

[Paymaster]

Git ur Done.LOL . Man, your avatar, could'nt you find a Kasey Kahn or JR. pic to use. :lol: :lol:

[Uncle Al]

Don't know why, but I lightly glaze my BB's with sauce mixed with some frozen apple juice concentrate, but I leave spares naked with sauce on the side.

Al

That's just another example of Bostonian discrimination. :lol:

Really ???

[lwp aka old sparky]

Git ur Done.LOL . Man, your avatar, could'nt you find a Kasey Kahn or JR. pic to use. :lol: :lol:

How about Robby Gordon #7 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Thom Emery]

Git ur Done.LOL . Man, your avatar, could'nt you find a Kasey Kahn or JR. pic to use. :lol: :lol:

How about Robby Gordon #7 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes But that would be easy I like going up hill Never been a conventual type

[Zilla]

If any Texan ever tells you that Texans don't use sauce, "because if the meat was really good blah blah blah", ask that person to explain the massive selection of BBQ sauce in any Texas super market. I'll tell you what, if HEB couldn't sell a couple of million bottles of sauce every year here in Texas they would have stopped carrying the stuff a long time ago. But there are new ones appearing on the shelf all the time. This lady just giving you gas. She probably has a few bottles of Kraft in her fridge. :lol:

[Thom Emery]

:lol:

[TB]

Don't know why, but I lightly glaze my BB's with sauce mixed with some frozen apple juice concentrate, but I leave spares naked with sauce on the side.

Al

That's just another example of Bostonian discrimination. :lol:

Really ???

No, not really.

[Woodman]

Aw come-on Vinman. You are from Ohio, the home of "Hot Sauce Williams", and "The Montgomery Inn". You gotta give yourself more credit!

[Paymaster]

Zilla, you are probably right about her. Thanks. :D

[bigwheel]

Great point Zilla. Texas folks just wuv their sauce and it betta have a ketchup base for them who knows whuts whut. Only ketchup I wont use is Heinze cuz she kin to Kerry in some way from whut I heard. Hey now did you ever try any Dubja Ketchup? Taint bad. Shoulda saved it looking back on it. It prob be worth a tub on ebay one of these days.

bigwheel


If any Texan ever tells you that Texans don't use sauce, "because if the meat was really good blah blah blah", ask that person to explain the massive selection of BBQ sauce in any Texas super market. I'll tell you what, if HEB couldn't sell a couple of million bottles of sauce every year here in Texas they would have stopped carrying the stuff a long time ago. But there are new ones appearing on the shelf all the time. This lady just giving you gas. She probably has a few bottles of Kraft in her fridge. :lol:

[TB]

David. Ask her.

[Paymaster]

David. Ask her.

Naa. I will jest leave it alone. She has her view of the world just like I do. But I think she has a very limited view of what Texans eat.

[vinman]

Aw come-on Vinman. You are from Ohio, the home of "Hot Sauce Williams", and "The Montgomery Inn". You gotta give yourself more credit!

Well I just found the Montgomery inn sauce...it's not bad :P
I do have a couple of bottles in the cupboard even.
If I DO put anything on my chicken..it's either Jack Daniels or Rudy's though.
Other than that, I just use it for dippin'

[david brace]

Git ur Done.LOL . Man, your avatar, could'nt you find a Kasey Kahn or JR. pic to use. :lol: :lol:
How about Robby Gordon #7 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yes But that would be easy I like going up hill Never been a conventual type
So GUD...who IS this face in the avatar??? Anyone I should know??? I asked you before, but I think you fainted instead of answering me...

DB

[Thom Emery]

David
Well I know your not a NASCAR guy lol
Its Jeff Gordon LOTS of folks hate him
So I was a fan of his from the git go

[david brace]

Well, didn't mean to offend anyone...especially you, GUD, but somehow those elves of BS are easier to recognize and a lot more fun to remember...

DB

[TB]

Yeah David, you're a very "elfish" person.