favorite commercial BBQ sauce?

that depends on your que. you will have to decide for yourself what blends well. yo dont want a sauce that overpowers or clashes with the flavor of your que. without knowing what your que taste like, no one can answer that question.... just my guess. however, i think the easiest way out for you would be; find the most mild flavored sauce you can, add to it some of your rub and heat til dissolved. if you use juice or any other liquid, add that too. the result should be as complimentary as you can get and it wont take too much of your time.
...just my nickel....
good luck

A good comp cook and vendor,who cooks all over the country and tries to help me,says go to the supermarket in the target area and find the sauce shelves.

Look for the one that most of the public is buying[unless they are giving it away as a loss leader]and buy it.

Tweak it a little to suit your own product,as coffeebluff suggests.

Hope this helps a little.

We use several. I like to use KC Masterpiece but cut it with a little cider or apple juice. We use this for chopped up chuck rolls and beef.

When Costco has Sweet Baby Rays we great a bunch and use it on our ribs, also sometimes on pulled pork.

Cash n Carry or Simple n Final has a inhouse brand that is priced right and good. Most folks have not had it so it doesn't seem like off the shelf.

Have also used Jack Daniels grilling sauce when Costco has it, not bad.

I have had good luck with Famous Dave's Sweet and Zesty on pork and chicken. Not too spicy and not excessively sweet. My wife and kids really like it.

Bodacious,are you looking for a sauce to cater/vend or a table sauce for your home.

That might affect all our answers.

There is nothing wrong with the Cookshack sauce. Texas Rib Ranger is another good sauce, and for something totally different you might try John Hardy's various bbq sauces. There place is in Rochester, Mn.

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Originally posted by Tom:
[qb] Bodacious,are you looking for a sauce to cater/vend or a table sauce for your home.

That might affect all our answers. [/qb]

Looking for one for home use, primarily. But I might find one premade sauce that I can use as an optional sauce for vending.

I guess what I don't want is one that TASTES like a store bought sauce, if you know what I mean.

When I start vending -- if I do -- I have 3 specific sauces that I plan to use, all home made.

www.traderjoes.com makes an excellent kansas city barbeque sauce. It's the only commercial barbeque sauce I'll use, and it would be very tough to make a home bbq sauce better. I haven't tried the texas rib ranger bbq sauce. They also sell a mojito sauce at trader joes which is a excellent pork marinade. The stuff at the grocery stores even the gourment grocery stores hold no appeal for me. My favorite bbq sauce to make at home is a citrus barbeque sauce. You have to cook it low and slow.

Quick Heads Up,
Cattlemans BBQ Sauce is the most prostituted sauce in the restaurant world.Great base,kick it like you want,sooo simple.
Papa Shaka

Yep,Sam's carries the gallons of Cattleman's.

It is a good easy to find local approach,with adjustments.

Texas Rib Rangers'Spicey is excellent right out of the bottle and you can find it at Super Targets.

Some Albertson's will also carry Rib Rangers and Head Country.

Sweet Baby Ray's is a good store bought sauce. Wal-mart sometimes has a resturant size bottle that's not to expensive. It is a sweet sauce and no heat; but, heat is easy to fix if you like it. This is a good sauce for a family with kids. Does not taste like Kraft or Hunt's.

hey bodacious, i too like the sweet baby rays sweet and spicy.add some minced garlic, diced onion, green pepper and some mr. stubbs beef marinade, all to taste.the family loves it in those times of need

Stubbs, Blue Front, Carolina Treet and Johnny Harris. My family also likes one of the Bone Suckin' recipes, too.

Johnny Harris was developed right here in Savannah. Not sure where it's bottled now but it is a good sauce. al

I like Open Pit doctored up with some rub and hot sauce and some honey, and also Bullseye Original or hickory.
Jon

My favorite is GATES EXTRA Hot BBQ Sauce... Everyone that has tried it at my house has LOVED it...

http://www.gatesbbq.com/store.html

I would rather eat good BBQ without any sauce. I like the flavor of the pulled pork, ribs, etc. with just the rub I put on them and the pig's own merit. I really just think well cooked meat needs no sauce to cover it up, and no fancy buns, I use the cheapest I can find.

My favorite sauce is Bone Suck'n sauce...but was just Trader Joes Kansas City sauce and can't wait to try it!

I like Tony Roma's and John Boy and Billy sauce as far as store bought goes.


JET