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Originally Posted by Sorry
Anyone ever try to make their own BBQ sauce?
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I've tried a handful of times.
It's....fine. It's better than that Kraft shit and KC Masterpiece. But in the end I realized that I'm not making anything demonstrably better than Firebug, Night of the Living or Head Country.
It's a little like hot sauce in that regard, I've tried to make my own hot sauces as well and they're fine - they work. But I don't find myself reaching for them over basic Crystal hot sauce or some of the more exotic stuff I can get from places like Pepper Palace.
I do make my own mustard sauce, though. It's kinda tough to get my hands on a good mustard sauce outside of the Carolinas. Even something like Maurice's isn't easy to get ahold of and it's basic enough to make that I just mix up my own.
But a good 'red' sauce, be it vinegar or molasses based, is gonna require a shitload of work to get past what I can get in a bottle. I'd have to boil down tomatoes and stuff and that's just more than I'm willing to do. If I'm gonna do something half-assed and start from a ketchup base or something like that, why even bother? People that do this for a living have dialed in some damn good sauces I can pay $4 for and unscrew a lid.