| Who likes using barbecue sauce at a BBQ? Everyone, | | | | stop using BBQ sauce but you may just need to |
| right? Well, you just might be wrong to believe that | | | | change the way you are using it. I'm going to answer |
| BBQ sauce can only improve a barbecue if not used | | | | this puzzling question for you and possibly give you |
| correctly. It is a little known fact that most barbecue | | | | some pointers that will help you improve the taste of |
| cooking pros leave the barbecue sauce at home | | | | all your barbecue meals. |
| because if not used right, you just may find yourself | | | | It has been a long time secret among professional |
| eliminated early from the competition. Maybe you | | | | barbecue cookers and smokers that BBQ sauce, if |
| want to us a secret family recipe that has been in | | | | not used properly, can do more harm than good. |
| the family for generations. Just possibly you are | | | | Some the top cooks on the Barbecue Championships |
| dying to use a concoction downloaded from the | | | | Series avoid using BBQ Sauce all together unless the |
| internet. You can still use BBQ sauce but you may | | | | recipe specifically calls for it. Using a barbecue sauce |
| want to change how it is used to acquire that all | | | | that is high in sugar may even ruin the taste of the |
| allusive perfect flavor. | | | | other foods you have on the grill too. The reason |
| It has been normal practice in the past to soak up | | | | that BBQ sauce must be used correctly is because of |
| your meat with some barbecue sauce and let it | | | | the sugar content. About 90% of all store bought |
| "marinade" a while so that great BBQ flavor can soak | | | | sauces and recipes found on the internet contain |
| in. That is a perfect example of what NOT to do. I | | | | sugar. The sugar can ruin the food if it starts to burn. |
| know you must be thinking "what in the world is the | | | | It can leave a bitter taste on the food it's on and the |
| BBQ sauce for then?" Don't worry, you don't have to | | | | food around it. |