BBQ thread

[c172]

...since I feel like the pizza thread, wonderful as it is, is going off topic. Probably my fault.

If i do anything "bbq" it's usually pulled pork. In a crockpot. And served on either white rice or a bun. And it is boneless pork shoulder that can be put in a dry rub of some sort. Whatever I please, really. Sometimes just Old Bay seasoning. The sauce, which ends up really thin, is any rather cheap national brand of BBQ sauce (Hunts, Kingsford, whatever) combined with soda (Root Beer, Dr. Pepper, or cola), dry onion soup, and maybe sugar or honey, and Tabasco. 

My uncle in St. Louis LOVES ribs. I HATE getting sloppy. So the way I do them (again, crockpot) is just with a dry rub. No sauce. Let the meat shine. I'll need to look up the recipe I used last time. 

Do you BBQ? What? Sauce or no sauce? What kind of sauce? Any sides/desserts/whatever?

anything else we should know?

[brewerb]

I'm with you, primarily pulled pork. Pressure cooker, loin or tenderloin, spices (garlic/onion/red pepper/liquid smoke), sauce after. Off the shelf sauce, memphis or KC style.

Predict baby derail.

[SYZ]

WTF?  Crockpot or pressure cooker?

This is a fucking BBQ!

             

[Mathilda]

I love BBQs. Always have. I love the smell more than anything. Unfortunately no one else seems to want to have them. I'm hoping that if we manage to adopt then we can start to have some BBQs otherwise if it's just my husband and I we won't ever bother.

Getting MS threatened to stop me having BBQs ever again because I can no longer eat meat but I just chuck on huge fillets of salmon and voraciously consume it all.

[Fireball]

Love the food, despise fixing it. One of my  sons bought a smoker and will smoke some beef on occasion. I'll be having spare ribs today for lunch, but the restaurant about a mile away is fixing them for me. I did grill some cod fillets last night for dinner, though. Then, on Easter I spit-roasted a boneless leg of lamb. Where's the emoji with the utensils!?

[Dānu]

Yesterday's Meals-On-Wheels was BBQ pulled pork. That will be lunch, as I had other meals ahead of it in the queue. I love BBQ, but I don't get it very often, and it's hard for me to eat without making a mess. As a result, besides adding barbecue sauce to my beans, the closest that I typically get is bringing home a pre-cooked rack of ribs. I really love BBQ, I just don't have the opportunity that much.

That reminds me, I've got six chicken drummies in the freezer. Those would work good with BBQ sauce, even if that doesn't please the purists.

[Dancefortwo]

WTF?  Crockpot or pressure cooker?

This is a fucking BBQ!

             

NO! That's not BBQ, that's gas.   THIS   vvvv   is BBQ.

[c172]

Yesterday's Meals-On-Wheels was BBQ pulled pork.  That will be lunch, as I had other meals ahead of it in the queue.  I love BBQ, but I don't get it very often, and it's hard for me to eat without making a mess.  As a result, besides adding barbecue sauce to my beans, the closest that I typically get is bringing home a pre-cooked rack of ribs.  I really love BBQ, I just don't have the opportunity that much.

That reminds me, I've got six chicken drummies in the freezer.  Those would work good with BBQ sauce, even if that doesn't please the purists.

Yeah, the mess factor is why, per my OP, I like just dry rub for ribs. My family all sees getting sloppy as part of the point. I see getting full as the only point. With any food.

[brewerb]

WTF?  Crockpot or pressure cooker?

This is a fucking BBQ!

             

NO! That's not BBQ, that's gas.   THIS   vvvv   is BBQ.

Neither one is BBQ. That's grilling.

[Cheerful Charlie]

Tired of BBQ sauce. Store bought crap is over sweet. Drenched in sugar. I need to start looking at home made without all the sugar. I sometimes go to a local BBQ restaurant that has sauces that are not sugary. I need to use that as a goal, a model. Some traditional low sugar sauces are based on vinegar. I am no fan of vinegary sauces either. The other thing I want with my BBQ is hot, buttered cornbread. All the local BBQ joints here give you a slice of Wonderbread and no butter. A wretched disappointment.

Good smoked brisket, a touch of decent not too sweet sauce, and a good, hot cornbread muffin with real butter. Is that too much to ask?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I grill often. I rarely barbecue. When I do barbecue, it's usually a dry-rub on a center-cut pork roast or sirloin tri-tip roast. When I do use sauce, I make my own.

The last time I barbecued, I took a pork roast and stuffed it with mushrooms and tomatoes, basted it with butter and herbs, and smoked it for four or five hours.

WTF?  Crockpot or pressure cooker?

This is a fucking BBQ!

             

NO! That's not BBQ, that's gas.   THIS   vvvv   is BBQ.

Neither one is BBQ. That's grilling.

dingdingdingding

[PopeyesPappy]

[SYZ]

I fervently hope you don't call THAT ▲ ▲ a barbecue LOL.

[PopeyesPappy]

It's a pulled pork sandwhich that I smoked for 16 hours and some chicken that smoked for 5 or 6 so yes that is BBQ.

Here are some ribs in the smoker.



And this is what a BBQ usually looks like at my house.

[Fireball]

Mmmm, baby backs from the restaurant about a mile away.

[Dancefortwo]

I fervently hope you don't call THAT ▲ ▲  a barbecue LOL.

YES I DO!  Ya wanna make somthin' of it!?      .............................

My husband is from South Carolina and does a South Carolina mustard based BBQ sauce.  Some people don't care much for it but I really like it.  It's got some pepper in it and other fine stuff.  He does a mustard based BBQ chicken which is really good too. 

[Old Man Marsh]

Ah, BBQ. The most ancient of sacred traditions.

When I make BBQ (chicken, pork, beef, baby, whatever), whether smoked, on the grill, in the oven, or in a slow cooker, I have a particular sauce that I throw together (taught to me by a lady from New Orleans).

A bottle of hickory-smoked sauce.
Most of a bottle of Italian dressing.
About a dozen dashes of Louisiana hot sauce.
A Creole seasoning mix to my druthers.
A few drops of Worcestershire (or not. Depends on my mood).

Great as a BBQ sauce and as a marinade. It has also made a few people break out into dance, seemingly spontaneously.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

BBQ?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I fervently hope you don't call THAT ▲ ▲  a barbecue LOL.

Coming from a guy who thinks grilling burgers is a barbecue, this is some funny shit.

[TheGulegon]

I'm with you, primarily pulled pork. Pressure cooker, loin or tenderloin, spices (garlic/onion/red pepper/liquid smoke), sauce after. Off the shelf sauce, memphis or KC style.

Predict baby derail.

BBQHQ

[PopeyesPappy]

A Creole seasoning mix to my druthers.

I've got a Creole rub that is absolutely fabulous on big fat grilled pork chops and ribs. 



It's pretty damned good on grilled shrimp too.

[TheGentlemanBastard]

I'm with you, primarily pulled pork. Pressure cooker, loin or tenderloin, spices (garlic/onion/red pepper/liquid smoke), sauce after. Off the shelf sauce, memphis or KC style.

Predict baby derail.

BBQHQ

K.C. Masterpiece?!? Don't they have real BBQ sauce in your neck of the woods?!?

You really need to get yourself some of this:


Or, at a minimum, some of this:

[TheGulegon]

I'm with you, primarily pulled pork. Pressure cooker, loin or tenderloin, spices (garlic/onion/red pepper/liquid smoke), sauce after. Off the shelf sauce, memphis or KC style.

Predict baby derail.

BBQHQ

K.C. Masterpiece?!? Don't they have real BBQ sauce in your neck of the woods?!?

You really need to get yourself some of this:


Or, at a minimum, some of this:

Oh, I got me a cupboard full of Sweet Baby Rey's! But if'n you don't realize food from the K.C. Masterpiece restaurant is the best there is, you either ain't tasted it, ur there's sumthin wrong with your tongue!

[SYZ]

I fervently hope you don't call THAT ▲ ▲  a barbecue LOL.

YES I DO!  Ya wanna make somthin' of it!?      .............................

My husband is from South Carolina and does a South Carolina mustard based BBQ sauce.  Some people don't care much for it but I really like it.  It's got some pepper in it and other fine stuff.  He does a mustard based BBQ chicken which is really good too.

Here in the land downunder, we call that tray/grid thing behind the lower door, under the main oven, a "griller" which
is, unsurprisingly, where we "grill" stuff.  Anything cooked outdoors over a flame is   a! fucking! barbecue!   





—And I'm truly sorry about your husband's state of origin.  Try and be brave.     

[Thumpalumpacus]

Here in the land downunder, we call that tray/grid thing behind the lower door, under the main oven, a "griller" which
is, unsurprisingly, where we "grill" stuff.  Anything cooked outdoors over a flame is   a! fucking! barbecue!   

Typical Aussie, he's got everything upside-down and bass-ackward.