Laughing my butt off on this one. Best lines: “is that a toe nail?” “If ya’ll keep buying it, she’ll keep making it” Matt’s complete revulsion of Pioneer’s was priceless, especially the blindfold test. The hidden gem was when he said “we’d get this at first dinner,” meaning there’s more than 3 squares in the meal plan....gotta love that!
They must have gotten bought out by a bigger company. It definitely started with a restaurant in Charleston - one location downtown, another in Mt. Pleasant.
I realize that this may be heresy to many of you, but Sticky Fingers' Carolina Classic MUSTARD -based sauce is dynamite. Being from SC, that type of sauce is very popular here. If you can get it where you live, give it a try.
and who told her to put bbq sauce in a jar? what? she maybe has a southerner on her design staff who thought it was funny -it aint even a mason type jar or a salsa jar that you can use a tea glass -
When you reacted to Pioneer Woman, I just about howled! 🤣 Sweet Baby Ray's is the only barbecue sauce in my fridge. You can't serve grilled ribs or hamburgers without it. I sometimes make my own barbecue sauce, but have no way of putting an authentic smoky flavor into it. I settle for using a couple of teaspoons of Wright's hickory flavoring.
For me the best BBQ sauce to ever touch something smoked is Head Country. Granted I've never found it for sale outside my home state of Oklahoma (it litters the grocery store isles out here though). Imagine a base flavor quite similar to Sweet Baby Ray's but just a little less sweet then also tangier, smokier and more spicy. I shared some with a retired Colonel while I was on Camp Lejeune who fancied himself a pit master and he quite liked it actually asking me where he could get more of it.
Fun fact: The thick, sweet bbq sauces that you typically find in stores, that are typically good for dipping, are a variation of Kansas City style sauces. Barring a few exceptions, in order to get a true representation of other styles of sauces, you typically have to either have to special order, or make it yourself.
Sweet baby rays is honestly amazing and so glad you can easily get it at most stores. They also do a really good chicken dipping sauce too. I’m also now out of morbid curiosity wanting to try the pioneer woman sauce. I have to know how bad it is.
Came here to tell this man he needed to try STUBBS. I love the cooking kits - bbq sliders are the BOMB. I've lived in the Lubbock vicinity for 40 yrs. I would also keep Evie Mae's in my fridge if they bottled it but for now I'll just settle for it when I can make it by for a plate of their cue.
The tip to finding barbecue sauce is go to a grocery store and look for the sauce bottle that doesn't belong. It should have weird packaging and no marketing. If that's the case there is a different reason that that sauce is there, and that reason is taste.
I love how fake that show is. "Pioneer woman" lmfao. They're RICH AS FUCK and they ain't in a wagon fighting native Americans or dealing with dysentery. Like she tries to make it seem like they have a rough n tumble life, but they're literally the 1% lol
I buy the Kraft regular BBQ sauce when it goes on sale here for 50 to 75 cents per bottle. Then I “doctor “ it up with other spices, hot sauce, sugar etc depending on what meat I am grilling. I have had so many compliments on my BBQ sauce especially my rib sauce..
Some sauce trivia: Sweet Baby Ray's originated as a homemade sauce brewed by a competitor at Mike Royko's "Ribfest" in Chicago back in the early 1980s. Royko was a long time Chicago columnist and writer; he started his Ribfest to determine the best BBQed (baby back) ribs in Chicago. Ribfest started as an open competition... anyone could bring their set up to Grant Park in Chicago and Royko along with a handful of Mike's friends would sample ribs and determine the winner. Mike passed away, too soon, in 1997.
Living in Kansas City, we get a ton of different sauces here in the grocery. I like Sweet Baby Ray a lot and always have some on hand. KC Masterpiece is more like catsup around here; basic, relatively bland, a bit sweet, but okay tasting (my relatives in Europe like it as they don't eat a lot of spicy stuff). We also get Gates and Bryant's which are local and more vinegary than many KC style sauces. They also have more of a bite than most others here. I didn't like Cattlemen's the last time I had some, too generic tasting. Stubbs is really good when available in the grocery, problem is that it is hit or miss being on the grocery shelves. I've tried a lot of different sauces, but these are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.
Bryant's sauce tastes like what you'd get if somebody in a Worcestershire sauce factory who had never tried BBQ sauce before had barbeque sauce described to him and decided to take a stab at it. It's not bad, but it is very different. Their "Sweet Heat" variety is a lot more like what I expect out of a KC style BBQ sauce.
One of the best BYR ever...him calling Sticky Fingers (and of course getting that coupon!), and his reaction to Pioneer Women...OMG I laughed so hard, and his reaction to it AGAIN during the blind tasting - I was crying laughing! 😂😂😂 You are the best, you personality, commentary and storytelling is beyond entertaining. You're awesome to watch, I'd watch you rank anything!!! 😊😊😊
My dad ran a bbq restaurant when I was a kid in Colorado. He made a custom sauce that was the best anyone ever had. People would come from texas on vacation and eat there just for the sauce. The basis of the sauce was cattlemen's. I helped him make it when I was a kid. Good choice!
Cattlemen's was at one point the "secret" sauce most non-bbq restaurants used years ago. It became popular enough that Frenches started selling it in stores.
Probably because that is the kind of sauce meant to be used to cook bbq, not to be eaten as a dipping sauce. Thick so it sticks to the meat and probably lots of salt and other things to get into the meat. Eating that straight would be like drinking a marinade. Yuck.
Fun Fact: if you've ever had (non-descript) BBQ Sauce in a restaurant, you've likely had Cattleman's BBQ sauce before. We used it in at least six or so restaurants and grocery stores that I worked at.
I will proudly say that I worked for Applebees 30 years ago, and Cattleman's was the sauce the rib baskets were dipped in. The sauce was better on the fries- TBH.
I found the pioneer woman's bbq sauce at my discount grocery store where they send products to die and believe me it is NOT good! It's really really bad.
The trick to good sauce is mixing a few different ones together. I usually have 2 or 3 different ones in my fridge and mix them together. Oh, and you bbq shrimp.
No Stubbs? Look up Stubb's BBQ sauce. Very surprised and a little more than disappointed that you did not include this barbecue sauce. It's made in Texas. And I understand Lubbock Texas. Check it out
@@jarodh-m6099 yes of course. Back in Virginia they sold it in almost every grocery store and now I'm in Pennsylvania. You can find it all day long at Giant. Happy hunting. You won't regret it. A whole line of Stubb's BBQ sauce and Seasonings
Based in the Chicago area Sweet Baby Ray's where he began They even have a little restaurant up in the northern suburbs near O'Hare airport where you can dine in.
Next episode idea: Best of the Best (all items from past video’s that came in first) and Worst of the Worst (all items from past video’s that came in dead last)
I knew he would pick Cattleman's as number 1. It's a good sauce. When he tasted Pioneer Woman's sauce a second time, it was hilarious. The wife and I couldn't stop laughing.
Sticky Fingers: as soon as you read off "good on seafood" I said "that's a Yankee bbq sauce!" And then she answered the phone with an Indian accent and said they were Massachusetts based. 😳😳😂😂😂
The scary thing is that Sticky Fingers restaurants started in Mt. Pleasant, SC; & that’s still where the headquarters for the restaurant chain is located. So how the ever living hell did the sauce end up being headquartered up north?!
Cattlemen's is surprisingly good, especially for how cheap it is. I found it when I was a broke college student, because it was always on sale at Kroger. It's super sweet, though, so its best use is as a glaze. You definitely need to do another one of these that includes high-end sauces that come in glass bottles like Stubb's and Rufus Teague, as well as some of the other varieties of Sweet Baby Ray's and Sticky Fingers.
Stubbs is made in Lubbock, Texas, and "Head Country" is made in Ponca city, Oklahoma. You can enjoy either one of them without loosing your Southern card.
For me it depends: Ribs get Sweet Baby Rays, chicken gets Cattlemen’s, brisket gets KC Masterpiece, and pulled pork gets Heinz Carolina Vinegar (which is getting hard to find).
May I recommend a field trip to Kansas City MO. That is the crossroads of BBQ and sauces. KC has pork and beef with the vinegar/cayenne sauces to the ohoygoey brown sugar and molasses tomato based sauces. Forget the BBQ houses and hit the guys on the street corners with split 55 gallon drums. They have their own sauces that will make you throw rocks at the commercial bottled ones. Oh, in KC you have the meeting of dry and wet rubs for cooking. A whole nother world for using, or not using sauce as a dipper or slatherer.
Those all suck. If you want to try the best BBQ sauce, you need to get Primal Kitchen Original Buffalo Sauce. I use it mostly for dipping. Criteria: No. #1 - Taste is awesome!; No. #2 - Thick for dipping; No. # 3 - Flavor and just the right amount of spice. Plus, it's made on the South Coast.
I work at kens foods in mcdonough Georgia, I make sweet baby rays and we also make sticky fingers! After watching more, our headquarters is in Massachusetts. We produce in mcdonough, las Vegas, and Lebanon Indiana
I make my own but when I dont have time Sweet Baby Rays is my go to cheat. 😁👍 Matt makes you want to sit down and share a rack of sticky ribs. With slaw. And a biscuit...or two.
I do love Sweet Baby Ray's. I've also enjoyed a brand from a restaurant in Cincinnati called "Montgomery Inn". You know how Lay's potato chips makes a KC masterpiece barbecue flavor? I wish there was a barbecue sauce version of Grippo's BBQ potato chips.
Cattleman's and sweet baby rays are really good!! (Side note... cattleman's has a great mustard BBQ sauce too...I don't usually eat mustard base BBQ, but it's really good too!)
I remember my introduction to Bullseye was at an airshow I went to as a kid, they were handing out free sample packs at the gate. I had my mom buy a bottle of it the next time we went to the store.
Hear me out on the kraft. If I have the time I make my bbq sauce from scratch, but if I know I need something fairly quick, or if I'm being lazy, I buy some kraft and i toss it into a sauce pan and I add seasonings, honey, and some other things and it makes a really good sauce. Basically, kraft bbq is so bland you can use it as a base to make your own sauce.
You are correct. My dad, God rest his soul, did that with Kraft sauce. Added spices, steak sauces, onions, jalepeno peppers , mustard, y name it. He had his own things he put in it every time and it was the best bbq sauce ever. Childhood memories.
I love how you are trying to figure out what in the world kind of sea food would you put BBQ sauce on as you are dipping a piece of bread in BBQ sauce hahaha
Sticky Fingers bar-b-que sauce - 3:34 - "Actually we're based in Massachusetts". - You know this is gonna be great sauce because if there is one thing Massachusetts is famous for, it's their Bar-b-que.
Sweet Baby Ray's makes a "no sugar added" version called Ray's, give it at try if you love BBQ sauce but try to avoid extra sugars. Bad by itself, great with food
When I worked at a barbeque restaurant we started our sauce with our onion scraps boiled in water. When the onions were cooked down we added a five gallon bucket of Cattleman's sauce.
I know, right? I like to put cocktail sausages in a crock pot, cover 'em with Old No. 7 flavor sauce (and add just few ounces of actual Old No. 7 whiskey) and let cook on low until the whole house smells like a distillery. Make sure you've got plenty of napkins!
@@davelewis2870 or you can just add Jack Daniels to your BBQ sauce and the problem and case is solved I do that all the time myself I even flavor chicken with bourbon as well, and that’s a really good base as a flavoring for grilling chicken
@@joshuatift4640 I've done that before, the new version of the JD bbq sauce is in grocery stores now actually, for under $5, instead of the almost $20 that amazon and the jack Daniel store was selling it for.
In the context of cooking food (such as sauce, or certain potato chips), "kettle" refers to a large pot - in other words (originally), a cauldron. What such a vessel has in common with a tea kettle seems to be that, in the olden days when people cooked over fires, both were suspended over the flames by their handle.
