About BBQ Sauces

It is very tempting to use a commercial sauce for your barbecues, but like any other processed food, you cannot control the ingredients and a lot of times there is too much salt or sugar and even ingredients identified with codes that do not really mean anything to you. It is actually possible to make your own barbecue sauces.

A barbecue sauce is intended primarily for brushing meats and fish to flavor and prevents them from drying.  Therefore, a barbecue sauce must be thick enough to stick to the food and not drip onto the charcoal. 

Barbecue sauces are made of strong flavored ingredient such as mustard, chili and lemon. Sugar is also used to create a nice sweet crust.                                              

Charcoal cookery is the most ancient of cooking methods. It is associated with the legendary conquest of the West. The word probably comes from the Haitian barbocoa, meaning grill, but some attribute its origin to the French “de la barbe à la queue” (from the beard to the tail), referring to the method of impaling the animal on the roasting spit.