OLD fashioned bbq thread: open pit? Vinegar and red pepper? Whole animal?

Newpond0

Newpond0

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the bbq I’m familiar with is gas or charcoal, some burgers maybe ribs or steak or hot dogs, and Kraft bbq sauce. Advanced bbqing is using a different sauce like Stubbs or sweet baby rays.

Any of you guys try or cook open pit style? Or the whole hog? What about old school vinegar and red pepper based sauces or mops rather than the sweet tomato store bought ones we have now?
 
BBQ is how you cook it, not what sauce you put on it. Usually low and slow with some sort of wood smoke.
Hot, fast, and open flame is usually grilling.

I've grilled steaks, burgers/sausage, and chicken over open flame ala camp fire cooking.
Also bbq slow & low ribs, brisket, pork butt, chicken via a smoker both offset stick burner and now a Bradley.
 
crapshoot said:
BBQ is how you cook it, not what sauce you put on it. Usually low and slow with some sort of wood smoke.
Hot, fast, and open flame is usually grilling.

I've grilled steaks, burgers/sausage, and chicken over open flame ala camp fire cooking.
Also bbq slow & low ribs, brisket, pork butt, chicken via a smoker both offset stick burner and now a Bradley.
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You're right, I didn't know the difference until fairly recently. You ever try the open pit whole hog stuff? Or the vinegar red pepper sauce? I made a sauce like that just now and dunked some warmed up good ham in it, very different but I liked it
 
Not much open pit or whole hog/animal cooking in Las Vegas and with it being just me and the wife, no need for that much food.
I have tried several different red pepper vinegar sauce. Very tasty. Hawaiians have a chili water that's pretty good too.
 
crapshoot said:
BBQ is how you cook it, not what sauce you put on it. Usually low and slow with some sort of wood smoke.
Hot, fast, and open flame is usually grilling.

I've grilled steaks, burgers/sausage, and chicken over open flame ala camp fire cooking.
Also bbq slow & low ribs, brisket, pork butt, chicken via a smoker both offset stick burner and now a Bradley.
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BBQ sauce is used to cover for poor meat, IMO. :cool:🤣
I do not use any sauce during cooking, and personally never add sauce unless absolutely necessary. I do mix up a great sauce for those who like sauce on their meat. Don't have the recipe handy, but, use Sweet Baby Ray's sauce and add mustard and chipotley 🥵 sauce to taste😊.
 
hm1996 said:
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BBQ sauce is used to cover for poor meat, IMO. :cool:🤣
I do not use any sauce during cooking, and personally never add sauce unless absolutely necessary. I do mix up a great sauce for those who like sauce on their meat. Don't have the recipe handy, but, use Sweet Baby Ray's sauce and add mustard and chipotley 🥵 sauce to taste😊.
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I agree. Someone told me the real point behind curry was to hide the rotten meat taste as it’s hot in India and they didn’t have refrigeration. People will say the benefits of turmeric etc. but that was never the point.

One thing is my friend who works at a fancy cheese store says French people eat a ridiculous amount of fats but don’t have much heart trouble at all. He says the key is they drink wine with those meals. The acids break down the fats. From this perspective that vinegar may have been helpful with those old time hogs that had more fat back in the day
 
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