Post that sauce! Sauces used to BBQ

Since I was able to start the BBQ (in April), I've been working on it a lot. I made a switch from propane to coal in early June and I am not trying to cook on there as much as I can. Coal works a bit differently and I mostly do indirect cooking. I quickly realised that I need a sauce (except on 1" thick steams) to go from Great to WOW on the BBQ scale.

I am now experimenting with a few sauces and having a vitamix simplify everything when it comes to make a sauce.

I made some Piri-piri the other week on chicken

• 4 garlic cloves
• 4 bird eye chili
• juice from 2 lemons
• 1/2 cup of oil (grapeseed)
• pinch of salt

Everything in the vitamix until I got all the solid into a liquid state.

It was awesome!

I also made my favourite, Cochinita pibil : http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/236743-Cooking-Challenge-Cochinita-Pibil-Puerco-Pibil

Which turned very differently (instead of pulled-pork) I had sliced pork. It was still awesome in tortillas.

So, which sauce do you use on a regular basis ? If possible, not a store bought one...

Can you discuss your choice of grapeseed oil as opposed to something else?

jzuzphreek said:

Can you discuss your choice of grapeseed oil as opposed to something else?

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Sure, it's close to tasteless so it doesn't affect the taste much with the other ingredients and the heat smoking point is higher than olive oil. Plus, I got some at home. That's pretty much the only reason why I used that.

I have a bunch of recipes and books, and I've tried a number of them. But I have to admit that most of the time I'm lazy with BBQ sauce and end up doctoring store-bought sauce. For pulled pork I like Sweet Baby Ray's mixed with some cider vinegar, pineapple habanero jelly and black pepper.

I like to keep it simple. Apple cider vinegar, red pepper flakes and just a bit of brown sugar.

I usually go with Sweet Baby Rays for "regular BBQ" sauce, but when I make ribs, the family clamors for my Apple BBQ Sauce.
It delicious, and simple to make. Really goes will with pork and chicken.


Apple BBQ Sauce
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1 cup applesauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1 cup brown sugar
6 Tbl lemon juice
1 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon


Optional - crank in some hot sauce for a nice kick. I find that the chili-garlic flavor of Sriracha works well, as does a habenero-based sauce that's strong with habenero flavor, but isn't mind-meltingly hot. (Orange Krush is what I use.)


Combine all in saucepan. Bring to boil. Cool and serve on side of ribs, chicken, etc.

I love seeing the sauces without vinegar!! I HATE vinegar based BBQ sauce!

Great thread. Keep firing in.

There have been some good threads on this subject over the years this is a pretty good one assembled by Jim. Sadly not much made it into our Wiki. I've been clipping a lot of it into a Word doc.

1/2 cup or sriracha and a quarter cup honey and coat chicken or pork or anything really...oh yeah.

Add some Saw Palmetto honey to any recipe and it is out of this world.

Alacrity59 said:

Great thread. Keep firing in.

There have been some good threads on this subject over the years this is a pretty good one assembled by Jim. Sadly not much made it into our Wiki. I've been clipping a lot of it into a Word doc.

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Great link, I missed that thread!

Alacrity59 said:

Great thread. Keep firing in.

There have been some good threads on this subject over the years this is a pretty good one assembled by Jim. Sadly not much made it into our Wiki. I've been clipping a lot of it into a Word doc.

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I'll try to remediate that over the next week or two.