Smoking meat by popping pellets? How to make great barbecue without the stress. Watch a barbecue competition in person or on television and you’ll usually see pit masters tossing logs into really big smoking rigs. It’s what most people think of when they think of great tasting meats, whether its ribs, brisket or pulled pork. But for most backyard barbecuers, that investment in … Read More
Mild to Wild: What’s Next After Growing Your Own Peppers?
You’ve had an abundant season of growing peppers. Hot peppers, sweet peppers, and everything in between. And now the harvesting season of your peppers is here. Your baskets are full, your jars and freezer bags are ready and you have an entire weekend to spend preserving your little garden gems. There are many methods of preserving peppers. Let’s explore some of the more … Read More
How to Grow Peppers Indoors During the Winter
If you’re a fanatic for peppers, you likely want a great home-ground supply year-round. Starting your growing season in the winter by growing peppers indoors is a great way to jump-start your access to great ingredients!
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.
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.
Mild to Wild: A Guide to Smoking Meat with Wood
Smoking meat is one of the most delicious ways to enhance its flavor. This is especially true if you use wood, but wood smoking is an art form that takes a lot of practice. The following information will help you get started.
4 Essential Ingredients for Your Barbecue Sauce
When it comes to making your own barbecue sauce, a strong backbone like vinegar, tomato, or mustard may be responsible for a good deal of the flavor, but not all of it. The key to a uniquely flavorful barbecue sauce is in the details. Some lesser known barbecue sauce ingredients play a big part in creating big flavor, but what … Read More
Using Peppers for Korean Barbecue Dipping Sauce
One of the delightful aspects of Korean barbecue is that the succulent cuts of meat are often accompanied by dipping sauces. You grip the meat with chopsticks or wrap it in lettuce, and dip it in the sauce before eating it. One of the prime ingredients of Korean dipping sauce is pepper paste. Here you can exercise a little creativity, … Read More
Using Soft Drinks as a Barbecue Sauce Ingredient
Barbecue sauces that you get at most places are based on tomato sauce, though you can get some that are based on mustard or even white barbecue sauce, which is based on mayonnaise and is favored in Alabama. But some people have experimented with homemade barbecue sauces based on their favorite soft drinks as an ingredient.