Rubs and Sauces
Meathead's most popular pork rub
What is Memphis Dust Rub?
This US President hosted the most barbecues of any President at his ranch
Who is LBJ?
The state you are most likely to find "white sauce" for your BBQ chicken
What is Alabama?
The type of grill using small pieces of compressed sawdust as fuel
What are pellet smokers? (pellet poopers acceptable)
The process of leaving cooked meat on a plate for 15 +minutes after cooking.
What is "resting"?
The ingredient Meathead likes to leave OUT of his rubs that dominates many commercial rubs
What is salt?
This Presidents fans handed out toothpicks and canes at BBQs
Who was Andrew Jackson/ (Old Hickory)
This state has 4 major sauce styles including a mustard based sauce
What is South Carolina
This popular fuel is made by partially burning hardwood until it carbonizes
What is charcoal?
Doing this to wood before cooking is a waste of time even though many people recommend it
What is soaking?
This slightly unusual ingredient in Memphis Dust Rub is a fragrant evergreen herb native to the Mediterranean
What is rosemary?
The only President to cut the line at Franklin's BBQ
Who is Barack Obama?
The thin sauce some Texans use to cool and moisten the meat during direct cooking, and as an optional finishing sauce
What is Mop sauce?
The chemical formula for propane
What is C3H8?
These do NOT radically speed up cooking times for potatoes
What are nails?
What is pesto?
The first US President known to have "stayed all night" at a BBQ.
Who is George Washington? (May 27, 1769 )
This city lends its name to a popular sweet red BBQ sauce that is what most of think of when someone says "barbecue sauce"
What is Kansas City?
the fuel for stick burners
What are hardwood logs?
The two chemicals from the fuel most responsible for the smoke ring
What are nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO)?
The scale used to measure how hot chilis are
What are Scoville Heat Units?
This President served hot dogs to the King and Queen of England and died on a day he was scheduled to attende a BBQ
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt? (April 12, 1945)
This very dark sauce is rarely found outside restaurants in a small area of Western Kentucky around Owensboro
What is Kentucky Black sauce and dip?
The two many TYPES of charcoal (not brands)
What are lump charcoal and briquettes?
This cooking method does not "seal in the juices" on a steak but we do it for other reasons.
What is searing?