Barbecue Sauce Recommendation Needed

I recently started trying reduced Balsamic Vinegar on meats and fish with great results. Plus it's actually very good for you.
To make a reduced BV, take a bottle of BV and heat it on low in a sauce pan until you see the water vapors rising, continue until the volume has
reduced by half and that's it. very tasty.

Does it stink up the kitchen while it is reducing?
 
I'm sure all those recipes are good. It's bar b que sauce right? I used to experiment with different recipes. Some were better than others. Eventually I came full circle and went back to where I started. Kraft's original. But Sweet Honey works well on Chicken. Everything else gets the original around here.
 
My personal preference is just a traditional eastern NC vinegar and red pepper sauce though.
I can enjoy that type of sauce too but i don't think it's really seen outside it's home areas. It certainly isn't anything close to what most people think of when thinking BBQ sauce. Ate at a pig picking place (whole hog) in Fayetteville a couple of times many years ago that used that sauce. It was very good but the place is probably long gone. I don't get up that way much anymore now that all of the old folks are gone. We're the old folks now I guess.
 
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I got this recipe from the Food Network's Paula Dean Show years ago and use it all the time. Really simple and doesn't overpower the taste of the meat.

Tangy Grilling Sauce:
1 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 stick of butter ( real butter, margarine doesn't work very well)
juice of two lemons

That's it and everyone who's tried it loves it.
 
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Federali, if you're partial to the vinegar-based sauces, especially for pork, you probably can find one called George's in your local grocery store in the Triangle. Ive seen it in Food Lion and one or two more stores. It's made over in Nashville, NC, and the fellow behind it is, believe it or not, an attorney from Rocky Mount whose family developed the recipe years ago; he just took it to the next level and marketed it. It has that authentic Eastern North Carolina tang to it, and it's delicious.
 
The absolute best BBQ sauce in the world is from McClard's BBQ in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is very mild.

In 1928, Alex and Alice McClard ran a tourist court, which also had a gas station and a diner that served up barbecued goat. When a traveler stayed with them and couldn't pay his bill, he offered up a secret recipe for "the world's greatest BBQ sauce" They took the recipe and played with it and soon the barbecue business became bigger than the tourist court or the gas station. That was the beginning of a family business now in its fourth generation.

Google McClard's BBQ Sauce, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

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Can anyone recommend a mild (really mild) barbecue sauce that won't have me running to suck on the business end of a fire extinguisher? I'm also concerned that should I flatulate, I might burn my house down.

I am VERY fond of plain old Bullseye Original. Pretty darn good.


Another vote for Sweet Baby Rays; just can't be beat !!:D

^^^Another good one!
 
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I'll cast my vote for Sweet Baby Ray's:

https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Baby-Rays-Barbecue-Sauce/dp/B0027UKBUA

We tried a lot of different sauces when we lived in Austin, and SBR always came out on top as being the best, every time, even better than Rudy's BBQ sauce! Works on all varieties of BBQ, especially beef ribs (OMG), and chicken! Oops - I lost it salivating - I should have included beef brisket, pork chops, and turkey!!! Time to fire up the grill, again! I'm not sure about wild game, but we have some experts in that area here.........................

Bill

Another vote for SBR's. And when I want something with a little more heat, their sweet & spicy is right on too.
 
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Famous Dave’s rich and sassy.

There are a number of wonderful bbq places here in our area and they sell their sauces in the local supermarkets.
I would imagine your locals bbq do the same.

Look up SUGAR FIRE BBQ. Check them out and see if they can ship it to you.
 
My favorite is Gates N Sons out of Kansas City. I am partial to vinegar based sauces myself but they are vey hard to come by in my part of the Midwest.

Mals
 
The absolute best BBQ sauce in the world is from McClard's BBQ in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is very mild.

In 1928, Alex and Alice McClard ran a tourist court, which also had a gas station and a diner that served up barbecued goat. When a traveler stayed with them and couldn't pay his bill, he offered up a secret recipe for "the world's greatest BBQ sauce" They took the recipe and played with it and soon the barbecue business became bigger than the tourist court or the gas station. That was the beginning of a family business now in its fourth generation.

Google McClard's BBQ Sauce, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

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You know, I was gonna order a bottle until I saw what they want for it. Fourteen bucks???
 

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I really like Sweet Bay Rays BUT now my wife won't let me buy it because of the high fructose corn syrup.

She rarely puts her foot down (on my neck) so when she does, I just give in.

Haven't found anything locally as good as SBR so I may try making my own from the recipes here.

Bob
 
Pappy's XXX White Lightnin' BBQ Sauce
by Bourbon Q, good stuff ,can order off of ammozon ,or staight from the company ,made in Kentucky ,not to hot ,not too thick, they started ,by selling in Krogers in Ky around here
 

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They were out of my favorite BBQ sauce the last time I was in the store to buy a bottle of Stubb's Original so I bought a jar of F. Whitlock & Sons Sweet Honey BBQ Sauce after reading the labels on a bunch of other options. Their no HFCS - high fructose corn syrup - recipe won me over.
 
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