What's your favorite BBQ sauce....your favorite hot sauce?

[2LaneCruzer]

The Chipotle is hot enough. My #2 is designed (a) not to be too hot for the sensitive person, (b) not to taste sweet on the finished product, but enough sugar to give a nice crust (I DON'T like a sweet taste to my BBQ), and (c) just enough garlic and salt to give great flavor but not overpowering. Like I said, I usually add a little more garlic; pork loves garlic.

Q: does the Cayenne add significant flavor, or is it simply added for the " pepper hot"?

I might add one thing; when I cook brisket, I always coat it in sugar and leave it in the frige over night, then scrape the excess sugar off before adding my rubb. For some reason, the sugar does NOT make the meat too sweet...although it is detectable...but it seems to add a nice crust and keep the meat nice and moist when cooked at low temp (225-250 degrees) for 10 or 12 hours.

 

[LouNY]

2LaneCruzer your rubs sound good,

I don't care for the sweet BBQ sauces so I use

Jack Daniels Spicy Original,

it can be hard to find in my area so I usually end up ordering 14-16 bottles at a time, last time was a Walmart online order.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We use Head Country; it's less sweet than most. We also use Selmon Brothers, it's probably the best. I've been thinking about trying to formulate my own...when I get time...

 

[Oaktree]

Don't really use BBQ sauce all that often, when I do whatever's on sale at the supermarket will do. Hate to say it, but I can't tell the difference between 'em.

As for hot sauce, I like the stuff Dollar General has for $1.

 

[nbking]

Kinders BBQ sauce, Cholula hot sauce for breakfast, Frank's for everything else. Favorite snack fresh popped popcorn, sprinkled with Frank's. For my Rib sauce, I use Kinders BBQ, Heinz 57, cook it down with dried onion flakes, it's so sticky, and clings to the ribs, fingers, beer bottles etc.

 

[Einthewoods]

I'm not a fan of vinegar so things like Tabasco never touch my food. Cholula I like for the flavor being its main ingredient is peppers. Though being the cheapo that I am I buy Valentina which tastes the same to me as Cholula but is dirt cheap. I go through way too much of it.

BBQ sauce, if I buy it, is Sweet Baby Rays of different flavors. Lately though I use it and then jazz it up with other things.

 

[Lelandwelds]

BBQ? Any Kansas City style and doctor it up.

Hot sauce? 95% Pain (pineapple and Jamaican Jerk)
Santana Habanero Jardine Foods (carrot)
El Yucateco (habanero, tomato, onion)
Tiger Sauce
various Dave's Insanity Sauces

 

[2LaneCruzer]

For those of you who do not care for a sweet BBQ sauce (that's me...big time...) you might look at Woody's Cooking Sauce. It's designed to apply to the meat during cooking, and it's excellent. I'm a no-sauce kind of guy, and Sharn Jean likes her BBQ cooked with sauce, and Woody's fits the bill. It's fairly mild, also.

 

[bunyip]

This thread is going to keep me busy for a few summers I think, some good looking recipes, I don't like sweet either but do use sugar as an enhancer.
I use yoghurt in marinades as it helps get the flavour deeper into the meat (I saw a documentary on this and they used an MRI to see how deep it went).
Confucius say, one must approach food with an open mind and an open mouth.

 

[tallyho8]

Being from Southern Louisiana, it is almost sacrilegious to say that you don't care for Tabasco Sauce, but I don't. Many years ago it was made from Tabasco peppers and was better but as the company grew they couldn't get enough tabasco peppers so they started using all kinds of red peppers changing the taste. The predominate flavor of it now is vinegar with some hot added.

Many replies to this thread have been about the hottest pepper sauce they have ever tried instead of the best one. I prefer a hot sauce with a good flavor over one that is so hot that it overpowers the taste of the food you are eating so that all you taste is hot.:hot: My favorite hot sauce is Crystal, made with cayenne peppers, that imparts a good flavor to the food without overwhelming it with a burning sensation. It always tastes the same because it is always made with cayenne peppers unlike many of the other hot sauces that are made with whatever kind of pepper they are able to buy at the time. Read the ingredients of the pepper sauce that you use. If it names the type of pepper, that is the kind they use. If it just says peppers, they use whatever they can get at the moment, making one batch significantly different tasting than another.

While traveling through the Caribbean islands many times I have sampled dozens of different brands of hot sauces, made with many types of peppers, some mild and some claiming to be the world's hottest, but have found none with the flavor that cayenne peppers imparts to the sauce. There are also many other small Louisiana companies that make hot sauce with cayenne peppers, flavorful, but not overwhelming. :yummy: