I’m at a shitty point in my life where I’m just close enough to rock bottom to smell it but far enough that I still have something to lose.
One thing I still have control over is what I’m going to have for lunch. I decided on chicken legs. I’m going to smoke them with Applewood and score the legs so they can hold bbq sauce. I’m going to the store soon but don’t have a favorite sauce, and I’m looking for recommendations. What bbq sauce is best to cook onto the chicken legs?
Kikkoman makes a teriyaki sauce with garlic and green onions and it is my new favorite sauce after Aldi’s parmesan garlic. If you’re dead set on bbq, you can’t go wrong with a sweet Baby Ray sauce.
Are you me?
The green onion teriyaki sauce is fantastic. I mix it into ground turkey and make burgers on the grill.
On the sauce tip we’ve gravitated to SBR. It’s dark and smokey like bulls eye but sweeter.
For chicken I really like grill mates sweet and smokey rub
Aw man, i wish i would’ve seen this earlier, I’m not happy with how the chicken came out. I think Teriyaki might’ve been the way to go. Something sweet when I’m feeling bitter would’ve been good
Bro this sauce is something to everyday carry. I could eat anything with it!
Not sure if anyone cares to know but i decided to go with stubbs bbq sauce. First i put on a dry rub of Pappys dry rub and cooked to 160 internal. Then i followed up with stubbs bbq sauce and finished at 170 degrees internal.
I didn’t get down with the apple jim beam so i decided to do shots of Makers Mark cask bourbon. Might have a white claw and long Island iced tea later. Catch me on my plummet to rock bottom over on !cocktails.lemmyworld or occasionally! Cocktail.MidwestSocial
Unfortunately I think I might just have to go back to therapy because even bbqing doesn’t cheer me up anymore.
Edit: the chicken has clashing flavors only fixed by getting blind drunk. Don’t mix Pappys dry rub and stubbs bbq suace.
You may think no one cares but you’d be surprised how many people are happy about this update.
Also never really heard of stubbs before 0_0
As far as i can tell its just a generic sweet bbq sauce.
Well hope it was still really good!
Great choice. I was going to recommend Sweet Baby Ray’s, but Stubbs is pretty similar.
I’d skip the sauce. Legs are, to me, too fatty. They do much better with a. Rub and keeps the skin nice and tasty.
I scored the legs down to the bone hoping to get some crispy corners and a place to hold some sauce. It had mixed results. I was 6 drinks in by the time the chicken was ready so I wasn’t able to really appreciate my own culinary genius.
I always end up going back to Sweet Baby Ray’s. Every once in awhile I’ll try something fancier but I always end up going back.
SBR seems to be a very good all around sauce universally available. A lot of the others mentioned seems to be a specialty or regional sauce.
Seems like you could use a kick start for something different. Let me suggest Alabama White Sauce. Tangy, a little heat, and some lip sweat.
Alabama White BBQ Sauce: 1 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Salt
this looks delicious
I’ve never heard of this, but now I want to try it on the spatchcocked chicken I’m grilling tonight. How important is the horseradish, and can it be substituted since it’s the only thing I don’t normally buy?
It would take away a lot of the zing… But it’s cooking, you do you!
Ground white pepper should do the trick if you have some. It’s 99% heat and 1% pepper flavor so it would be a good stand in for horseradish. My brain first went to ground ginger but it won’t really be a good sub for horseradish. Though it may taste good given the other ingredients. If you don’t have white pepper, I’d just up the cayenne. It doesn’t have that nostril burning quality to it but it’ll be spicy nonetheless
Took your advice, with a twist…replaced the horseradish with half a teaspoon of white pepper and half a teaspoon of hot mustard powder to try to give it a different spiciness to it. The initial mix is creamy and tangy, but I’m sure it’ll defuse nicely once it has a chance to sit. Can’t wait to get this on the grill…
I just cannot take part in any mustard based “bbq” sauce.
Alabama white sauce is hardly “mustard based.” One teaspoon per cup of mayo is nothing; you’d barely taste it. It’s Carolina-style sauce you have an irrational hatred for, not Alabama-style.
This goes great with sister fucking.
How do you know this?
It’s just Alabama things.
I’m wheezing at the amount of existential dread in your question about BBQ sauces. Sorry man, life may be shitty right now but at least you’ve got a good sense of humor.
Im drowning and bbq sauce is my life raft
Godspeed! And may the the bbq sauce life raft carry you safely across these treacherous waters.
What a coincidence, today I stumbled upon just the right book for situations like this.
I think tomorrow might be the fried noodles one. I already have a good spicy sweet and sour sauce, and I’ll pair it with some fried chicken thighs if I’m not too drunk to drive to the store tomorrow.
Thanks friend, i think this is a good cookbook. I appreciate it
I really like Stubbs Sweet Heat (“Ladies and Gentlemen I’m a Cook”)
Stubbs is decent sauce. Haven’t tried this one, but it’s likely solid.
Original Stubb’s is good too. Bit more vinegary.
I’m a big fan of vinegar flavors but moreso with beef than chicken. I unapologetically use A1 sauce with my bigger steaks. Then again I eat lots of steaks and I feel like A1 just provides a little bit of a flavor difference for it to feel like I’m not eating a whole pound of the same thing.
Then again I recently started pan frying my steaks with butter as opposed to grilling them on a propane grill and i think it’s better that way imo.
You said you feel down? Then toss the BBQ sauce, use whiskey. Just whiskey. Toss the chicken as well, tastes like crap with whiskey.
But don’t forget to smoke the whiskey with the apple wood first.
We do have some culture here
Funny story i picked up a bottle of jim beam apple and am smoking my chicken with Applewood. Now ive got the rest of the bottle to keep me company until the end of the day.
Stubb’s is always my go-to for chicken. It’s usually a crowd pleaser when I bring it to cookouts
It’s less about what sauce you pick and more about making sure to finish them on the grill on high heat so that sauce caramelizes and chars. That’s where the flavor lives.
Maybe thats where i went wrong. Next time I’ll crank up the heat.
Something spicy. You need those endorphins. You can channel your anger into eating the pain food.
Brine them in Vicker’s sauce for 24 hours, place in a bowl or ziplock bag and toss in a heavy dark sauce like Stubb’s, Corky’s, or Jack Daniels. Smoke and caramelize the bbq sauce. Then, optionally, give a thin coat of BBQ sauce again for messy wings.
Stubb’s original is my favorite.
Maull’s classic, a St. Louis BBQ tradition.
Goes great on alligator doesn’t it?
Never had it on gator, only ever had gator with mustard based sauce.
My favorite bbq sauce is this one: https://www.joeskc.com/collections/sauces-and-rubs/products/joes-bbq-sauce
It won’t get there in time but man, what a treat. Think of it for next time! I hope things start to look up for you soon, enjoy your bbq! I’ll also be smoking some chicken today, I’m going to be cooking this for the first time so I hope it tastes good: https://howtobbqright.com/2020/02/13/voodoo-wings/
Looks great friend. I definitely want to step up my bbq game and i love spicy food. Today i just just went with simple and easy
Hell yeah man, simple and easy is so much better than doing nothing and eating bland fast food! Proud of you!
Reggae Reggae Sauce. Really good barbecue jerk chicken sauce.
It’s amazing how Levi Roots got rejected on Dragon’s Den and then launched the sauce brand himself to big success.
