Grill Maestro

Buying barbecue sauce from the store is fine when you’re in a bind or if you’re feeding an army. If you truly want to get into the art of grilling and you really do enjoy honing your craft, you seriously have to try your hand at making your own personal barbecue sauce.

So you don’t know where you start… I recommend going to AllRecipes and searching for barbecue sauce.

Some barbecue sauces you simply mix together in a bowl, those are the level one barbecue sauces. They involve using some dry spices and mixing them in with some water, ketchup, or other thick base. The next level is when you actually heat it up and mix them together. This adds ingredients like honey and molasses to your repertoire. Without heat, you can’t use either of them.

The beauty of making your own sauce is that you can experiment all you want! You can put whatever strange and awkward flavors you want. Wonder what it would taste like if you put in chocolate? Mix it in. Want to add a little kick? Try some bourbon whiskey.

You can do whatever you want and you’ll have the rest of your grilling life to tweak the flavor. Who knows, maybe you’ll hit it big and sell it for big bucks. Good luck!

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