Barbecuesauce

Barbecue sauce ( also BBQ sauce ) is a condiment which mainly takes place for grilling and barbecue dishes use. The sauce can be served cold or warm. It serves as a glaze at the end of the cooking process or is eaten as a dip to the finished dish.

Finished product

The first barbecue sauce industrially produced came from the company Heinz and came in 1948 in the United States - wide trading.

As a finished product barbecue sauce usually contains similar basic ingredients such as ketchup. Besides tomatoes found mainly sugar and water, acidifiers, thickeners, spices and flavorings use. The barbecue sauce is different from ketchup mainly by a most intense seasoning and by the partial addition of smoke flavor.

Due to the spread of industrially- sweet barbecue sauce with artificial smoke flavor and their use in fast-food and snack products has in the European population an idea of the "typical barbecue taste " was established, with the taste of the dishes from a Barbecue Smoker however, has very little in common.

Production at home

The homemade barbecue sauce is an important part at the barbecue the North American model. The recipes are usually kept secret by the chefs and taken part over the years to perfection. Often just the sauces are the hallmarks and recognition features of the chefs. Partly BBQ restaurants sell their homemade sauces in bottles for use in the home.

For the production at home is usually a mixed tomato-based ( fresh tomato sauce, ketchup or tomato paste ) and water with other ingredients such as onions, vinegar, mustard and spices if necessary. Typical spices in addition to salt and pepper, for example, garlic, cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce and chili or chili sauce. The partly sweet taste is achieved by the addition of sugar, honey, molasses or even reduced cola or fruit juices. By long boiling of the mixture produced the famous syrupy consistency.

Barbecue sauce without tomato-based

Around Alabama called the Alabama White sauce, a barbecue sauce found on mayonnaise base

In South Carolina, a vinegar - mustard sauce is preferred, which is known as South Carolina Mustard Sauce. The use of mustard was initiated by German immigrants in the 18th century.

Demarcation Barbecue Sauce and Mop

To be distinguished from the barbecue sauce is the soganannte Mop, called partly Baste. This is often a very thin liquid seasoning sauce, the barbecue by exclusively during the cooking process - multiple part - is applied to the food to keep it lasting for several hours during the cooking juicy. Pug often consist of vinegar, mixed with a little sugar and spices. Also, beer or wine and fruit juices partly form the basic ingredient.

Barbecue sauces are only partially suitable for mopping because the high sugar content tends to burn at higher cooking temperatures. For this reason, barbecue sauces, if at all, only at the end of the cooking time deleted for caramelizing on the food. In addition, the early painting with the thick sauce prevents the recording of the wood smoke taste by the food, which is desired at a barbecue in the rule.

Trivia

In the movie Planet Terror directed by Robert Rodriguez says the character played by Jeff Fahey JT Hague, like the barbecue sauce is prepared in his BBQ restaurant " The Bone Shack " according to a secret recipe and how important is the sauce in itself for the barbecue.