Serious Eats talks about barbecue sauce

I'm a frequent reader of Serious Eats, a family of blogs about food (reviews, recipes, techniques and so on...) if you're a food geek, I strongly recommend that you add their feeds to your RSS reader !

Anyway, they've recently published a lot of articles about barbecue sauce which are worth reading

Regional barbecue sauce recipes

Perhaps you ignore it, but barbecue sauce is more complex than it seems ! It comes in a variety of recipes depending on the region where it's made. They've published 3 recipes so far:

• Kansas-city style sauce recipe - KC style sauce is the one that comes instantly to mind when thinking about barbecue sauce. It's thick, sweet and smoky.
• Memphis style sauce recipe - Memphis style sauce is thinner and tangier than the KC style sauce.
• Lexington-dip sauce recipe - North Caroline style sauce is thin, vinegary and spicy.

These articles point out differences between these sauces, which all have common ingredients, but differ in use, consistency and taste. I'll try to write a more detailed article about regional barbecue sauces. You can read more about this subject in the Serious Eats article A guide to American barbecue sauce styles

Reviews

They also tested some sauces, what Brian from Barbecue Sauce Reviews and I love doing. They focused on 16 US sauces that you can find in grocery stores.

I tasted 5 sauces amongst the 16: Bull's-Eye, Sweet Baby Ray's, Jack Daniel's, Hunt's and Budweiser.
Good news for Belgian BBQ sauce lovers, you can find 4 of these 5 sauces in Belgium (Sweet Baby Ray's is only available in the US) ! I haven't reviewed all of them on the blog yet, but I'll do it in the next posts so stay tuned