BBQ Sauce 

BBQ Sauce

I'd like to share my theory about barbecue sauce.

If you're cooking for family and friends or even for bbq judges in competition, you need to strive to make a sauce that will appeal to the majority of your guests or judges.

I'd recommend using a basic sauce like Kraft or Masterpiece and then tweaking it with some honey or extra brown sugar.

The advantage to this sweet version versus a spicy sauce, is that most people can tolerate extra sweetness, even if they don't like sweet bbq sauce, but for those that are offended by spicy and hot sauces, they won't tolerate the heat. Very few people like truly HOT spicy bbq sauce.

So, the moral of this story....if you like hot sauce, save it for your personal meals and don't serve it to judges or your family or neighborhood gatherings.

(You can easily test this theory at your next event, by preparing two types of sauce for your guests to use and you'll soon see that the sweet sauce will see more use.)