With the holiday season fast approaching, you’re finding yourself in need of a wide range of dishes to take to all of the upcoming parties. Whether you’re preparing a dinner party with friends or trying to decide what to feed your family for a holiday dinner, there are plenty of great ways to incorporate barbecue sauce into your meals. Try … Read More
Adding Fruit to Barbecue Sauces: Mild to Wild Pepper and Herb
Most everyone who has grilled or smoked meat is familiar with the standard, regional barbecue sauces, from the tomato-based wet rub from Texas, to the mustard sauces used in South Carolina, to the whiskey-laced sauces favored in Tennessee. However, some more experimental grill masters are adding fruit to their wet rubs to give their meat a unique taste that hitherto … Read More
Get our Habanero Barbecue Sauce. It is good for you!
Our Habanero barbecue sauce not only packs up a good kick and great taste; it may also be good for you! Capsaicin is a natural property in Habanero peppers as well as in most hot peppers. It gives peppers their distinctive hot taste, but there is much more to it than meets the eye. Capsaicin may be one of the … Read More
Order to the Spice: How Scoville Units Work, with Examples
Most chiliheads have heard of the Scoville scale, but not many know how it actually works. You may have heard that the Scoville unit refers to the amount of glasses of water needed to dilute the heat-producing chemicals past the point of human detection, but this description is imprecise.
Mild to Wild: What Makes Chipotle Barbecue Sauce So Tasty?
Chipotle barbecue sauce is extremely easy to love. One drop gives you every taste under the sun, from sweet to savory and spicy, with just enough heat to feel adventurous to try it. The heat level in a typical chipotle sauce is quite low. It gives you a slight pinch in the tongue, but it will not burn your mouth … Read More
What is white barbecue sauce and what is it good for?
Most forms of barbecue sauce are either tomato based or mustard based. However, according to a recent story in Yellow Hammer, a different form of the sauce, known as white barbecue sauce, was just declared the most important food innovation to come from the state of Alabama.
Caramelizing the Sugar in Your Barbecue Sauce
When you are cooking with barbecue sauce, there are a variety of tips that you should keep in mind to maximize its flavor. One of the least understood of these is the act of caramelizing the sauce. This offers your meat a taste boost that is nearly impossible to get in any other way.
Mild to Wild: Indian-Style Tandoori Barbecue
Anyone who has been to an Indian restaurant has experienced the joys of tandoori barbecue cooking. The way it works is that a bell-shaped clay oven has hot coals or wood at the bottom that stokes up the heat to 900 degrees. Then chunks of meat, lamb or chicken by choice, are marinated in spices and put into these ovens … Read More
Hot Sauce Isn’t Just for Grilling [Odd Food Items to Add Hot Sauce to]
Tired of using hot sauce to the same old recipes time and time again? Look no further than these recipes of odd food items to add hot sauce too! They are sure to get your taste buds tingling and your mouth watering.
Kicking up Fried Chicken with Hot Sauce
Very few foods cannot be improved with a little addition of hot sauce. (Well, maybe ice cream, but even there some imaginative cook might concoct something tasty, say jalapeno and chocolate.) Fried chicken, though, can certainly be kicked up a bit with a little heat.