A Barbecue Sauce For A Perfect Barbeque

When someone talks about barbecue, the picture that comes to mind is cooking at the backyard grill, a social gathering, cooking outdoors and cooking meat slowly over wood and smoke that adds flavor to the food.

Different cooks have different preferences and style in their cooking. Some prefer rubbing the seasoning whether wet or dry prior to cooking and some prefers to soak the meat first in special marinades that could be sops, mops and finishing. The preparation and ingredients for marinating may differ from region to region the preferred wood to be used can also differ. However, no perfect barbecue will have good taste without the perfect barbecue sauce.

Barbecue sauces can generally be categorized by what they are based on. Common examples are tomato, vinegar and mustard based sauces. To give the barbecue has its distinctive taste and prevent the meat from burning easily, barbecue sauces are added to the meat while being cooked with the exemption of tomato based. Using tomato based sauces makes the meat burns easier than the other kinds of sauces.

Barbecue sauce preparation can either be sweet, sour, tangy, spicy, hot, thick or thin. The varieties are almost endless which makes barbecues popular because anyone can make his own special preparation depending on taste and anyone can create his own way of serving the barbecue.

Recipes for barbecues can also be guarded. And good barbecue sauces can be purchased at almost any store. But the only perfect barbecue sauce is the one that you can create for yourself.

Remember whatever works for you and your family can be a great barbecue sauce. So, start experimenting is the only way to start good cooking.

The basics of Barbecue sauce …

Tomato based barbecue sauce is the most widely used. Some say that tomato based barbecue sauce is the most popular. Its popularity may be due to the simplicity of preparation. Besides, tomatoes are the ingredients that could easily be found in the market. The thing you have to remember in preparing tomato-based bbq sauces is to cook the tomatoes very well in order to the flavor will blend with the other ingredients.

Tomato based barbecue sauces are acidic. So, it has property to breakdown all the flavor of other ingredients and blending them with its own. And because of its propensity to burn, you have to limit the usage of tomato based barbecue sauce while cooking. To make it even more flavorful, prepare tomato barbecue sauces a day beforehand.

Mustard based sauces are preferred in North Carolina. The mustard based barbecue sauce is great for grilling pork.

Vinegar is great meat tenderizer. It is also more acidic than tomatoes. Because of its acidic property, vinegar based sauces has a tendency to penetrate deep into the meat. To make this barbecue sauce more flavorful, experiment mixing it with chili, cider vinegar or red pepper, sugar salt and all the other ingredients that you want it to have.

Barbecue sauces today has different uses departing from its traditional purpose. It now serves as a condiment that is on almost any table like ketchup, salsa, salt, pepper and Tabasco.

However, if experimenting with food is not your greatest strength, you can always find great sauces in any store. To make great barbecues, one rule to follow is not to place too much weight on the “with smoke flavor” label that many bottled tomato sauces advertise itself. Smoke flavor is what is barbecuing all about. The flavor has to come from the wood not the bottle.