Best BBQ

[hazelkrs1]

Where do yall think the best barbeque is at? What kind (as in what cuts of meat, etc)? Mustard based potato salad, or mayonnaise based? Spicy BBQ sauce or mild, or one of the funky sweet ones?

 

Discuss.

[Windrunner]

First off I hate mayonnaise with a passion. It is the equivalent of putting shoes on a dog's feet. Extremely unnecessary!

 

As far as best BBQ? I don't have a ton of experience eating at different establishments, but I have had some Tennessee BBQ. It was delicious.

 

My favorite is pork BBQ. Pulled pork was dropped to the earth by the gods of all that is epic.

 

Spicy sauce is the boss. Devil's Spit from Famous Dave's is pretty righteous.

 

I would love to go to one of those BBQ pit master challenge jobbers. Pay a small fee. Eat until you can't see. It couldn't sound any better to me.

[eclipse0]

BBQ to me, means one thing... ribs. That being said, the best BBQ ribs I've ever eaten are from this Brazilian BBQ hole in the wall in Newark, NJ. Yes, you read that right, I said Newark, NJ!

 

So all you folks from Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Louisiana, you can argue all you want about who's better. I'll sit here in contention and gorge myself on spicy Brazilian pork in my hidden oasis while you all scream at each other.

[Windrunner]

Seriously... some of the best BBQ places are the joints in the most obscure places. I think Guy Fieti (sp) from Diners Drive-ins and Dives can attest to that.

[hazelkrs1]

Sorry to burst your bubble folks, but there's only one place you can look to find the best BBQ: you guessed it, Texas. There's a reason BBQ from Texas is legendary all around the world, in Texas there's 5 food groups: Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well, and Well Done.

 

Best kind of BBQ: easily brisket, hands down. Slow roasted for hours if not days till it melts in your mouth, with a generous dry rub and seasoning. While ribs are good, pork just aint got nothin on good 'ol Texan Beef.

 

Mustard based potato salad wins on flavor, and keeps longer.

 

Spicy BBQ sauce is good, but tbh the best sauces are from other BBQ states which experiment a bit more with funky sauces. Carolina sweet aint bad, Kentucky sweet bourbon is awesome, but Tennessee makes a spectacular weird jalapeno sweet sauce that's just liquid heaven. On a related note, Chili's came up with this new BBQ sauce that's actually insanely good, and for obvious reasons. It's "key" ingredient is Shiner Bock beer, straight from Shiner, Texas. Yall should give it a shot if you can, you might be surprised.

 

Edit: I just wanted to say Texas one more time.

Edited September 16, 2011 by Despothera

[eclipse0]

Blah, see, I'm very particular about mustard. Mustard is good, I like it, but too many people put it in everything, and use too much of it as well. When I'm eating potato salad, I want creamy and salty. Mustard just overpowers a good potato salad, IMO. Mustard on hamburgers is an outrage as well. My first time South of the Mason-Dixon line I order a hamburger at a fast food restaurant and bit into it not knowing they put mustard on them by default... seriously WTF?!?

 

If your burger or steak is prepared correctly, you don't even need sauce. It should be juicy enough and aged and marinated, basted or dry rubbed in the case of steak, or have adequate seasoning mixed into the ground beef on a burger. Also, well done, is not a food group, it's turning a wonderfully tender cut of meat into shoe leather.

 

Now other cuts of beef that require some tenderizing, I've got no problem adding as much sauce too as you want. The same goes with other meats that don't have as much natural flavor on their own, like chicken or pork. In those cases, it's all about the sauce.

[hazelkrs1]

you raise good points. I agree, a good steak or burger doesn't need sauce. Mustard is a better choice than ketchup or mayo tho (except when theyre mixed together nom nom nom special sauce)

 

I also agree well done is absurd, for beef at least. I even prefer Pittsburgh rare to that

[Niniel]

I get so hungry... I want BBQ!

 

We don´t have BBQ places around here. You just have to grill yourself. I like a good steak or chicken. And it should be my mum´s homemade French potato salad. And grilled corn. And maybe a beer or two if my daughter isn´t with me.

[Turin Turambar]

Now grilling is good, but it is NOT BBQ. Grilling is hot and fast. You get that great sear and some char which can be nice(something primal about throwing meat in fire and then eating right away) BBQ is lower and slower with the smoke as an essential part of the flavor. As for where it is best, To each their own. In this world now a person can find good BBQ just about anywhere with people moving around and combining styles. I love to try new ways of doing old things.

 

Darn, now I'm hungry and it is too early to fire up the grill. What's left after cooking steak rare? Blood and Bloody ashes.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

mmmmmmm.......... bloody rare steak......

 

how could it possibly be too early to make fire and cook meat? but still, there's a stove, yes?

[eclipse0]

Now grilling is good, but it is NOT BBQ.

 

Very true, though most people outside of the BBQ belt associate "BBQ'd meat" with the sauce regardless of the cooking process, hence why I brought grilling into the equation. There is a big difference between "having a barbeque" and "eating BBQ".

 

What's left after cooking steak rare? Blood and Bloody ashes.

 

Now that's worth 5 points!

[Leyrann]

I'd best like some Trolloc Burgers.

[Turin Turambar]

Trolloc is quite gamey. Also there is the whole "mad cow" thing as they are cannibals.

[hazelkrs1]

If you are what you eat, then Trolloc meat would prob taste pretty good, they prob have a pretty widely sampled diet. Taraboners, Saldeans, Fal Maddingers... you get the point. After all, the reason wild turkey tastes so much better than farm raised turkey is it's well varied diet

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i'm not crazy about game meat. i like the pig finished off on corn before he's butchered.

[hazelkrs1]

I like to "premarinate" my pigs by feeding them the sauce their meat will sit in once they're chopped up

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i saw ramsay do that but it seemed a little... ghoulish... and somewhat pointless.... though i suppose they don't have to worry about the lasting effects of ETOH.

[Windrunner]

I get so hungry... I want BBQ!

 

We don´t have BBQ places around here. You just have to grill yourself. I like a good steak or chicken. And it should be my mum´s homemade French potato salad. And grilled corn. And maybe a beer or two if my daughter isn´t with me.

 

 

I am sensing an entrepreneurial opportunity here. Southern US accent + BBQ + Sweden = Great Success

[Turin Turambar]

it could be Huge. You could expand BBQ using some of the game animals in the region as well as our beef, pork, chicken. You have to match your accent to your style though I guess.

[Niniel]

What would the game animals of my region be?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

rudolph? moose?

[Louise]

BBQ'd Rudolph....YUMMY!!!

 

Santa might get a little irate though don't you think?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

snata totally used rudolph for his own gain, and deserves to lose him.

 

but i think reindeer, judging by the name, may not actually qualify as game.

 

still, moose must run free, if they're there. and i heard they mess up the trains, so i think they're there.

 

otherwise we're looking at BBQ fish, which... well, i'm sure it's lovely.

Edited September 18, 2011 by cindy

[Niniel]

My parents hunts moose every autumn. I think it´s time soon again. Moose is yummy, yummy, yummy. Rudolf lives in the northern part so if might be hard to find him. If you don´t snatch him on Christmas Eve that is.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

he can be snared with a clarisse blow up doll and a pheremone trail.