How do you like your BBQ?

[ssampier]

Inspired by the "best burger [place] in the area", I'd like to start a discussion about BBQ. I'm not an expert, but I've yet to experience really good, slowed cooked, baby back ribs or shredded pork in BBQ sauce. I've made some passable ribs by cooking them in the oven for four hours and using a generic bottled sauce on top. Before cooking them I marinated them in the fridge for 24 hours with a rub (not sure the ingredients, my former roomate put it together).

How do you like your BBQ? Wet? Dry?

 

[Darrin Drader]

Wet for me. The Outback Steakhouse makes some really good slow cooked ribs smothered in BBQ sauce. I highly recommend trying it if you haven't already.

 

[Crothian]

Ya, wet is the way to go. We have some good barbarque places round here but not like Kansas City or Mephis has.

 

[Jdvn1]

Wet, I think, is easier to make. The rub soaks into the meat pretty quickly and you don't have to cook it as long.

I'm all about dry rubs. Every six months, I do a barbecue for a bunch of friends where I slow-cooked a pork butt for 12 or more hours. I spend sometimes an hour or more just perfecting the dry rub. There's an art to it and you have to be super careful with how high the heat is. Pork fat falls apart at, I think, 197 deg F, so you want to cook it at around 190-200. Cook it at around 200 for maybe an hour, to kill the bacteria, but leave it at 190 for the rest of the time so you don't lose too much moisture.

And be creative with the rub. Lots of people use sugar, but there's something to be said about a more complex flavor. I like using a large variety of spices and herbs and then throwing some lemon or other fruits in to cook with the meat.

 

[Gadodel]

Dry.

Builds a thirst.

I like my ale.

 

[ssampier]

Wet for me. The Outback Steakhouse makes some really good slow cooked ribs smothered in BBQ sauce. I highly recommend trying it if you haven't already.

Sounds good. I live in the stix of Utah, so I'll have to wait until I go into the city (Salt Lake City to be exact). Outback must be an odd place, they never seem to get any love. Everytime I hear about Outback it's someone making fun of it, yet all my local friends rave about it.

If I had the talent and the gumption, I'd start my own BBQ place. But alas, I can barely cook for myself

 

[Crothian]

Outback is good, not the best I've had but I've yet to have a bad meal there.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'll take my barbeque how I can get it. As a rule, I prefer less sweet sauces, and typically use copious amounts of hot sauce

 

[Torm]

Mongolian.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I like my bbq wet, with sweeter/tangy sauces.

We just tried a new place tonight called Smokey Bones. Was good food.