I’m not set on a specific style of sauce so we vary it. Really anything just makes it’s better whether it’s has mustard or ketchup base. From off-the-shelf BBQ sauce to fermented chili red sauce. The stuff with fermented chilies are really good and unique.
These guys are local and have some good sauces:
The owner taught me how to make the above at one point but I haven’t been able to get it to work at home, yet.
A Kamado will beat the cold. They are not cheap though. Am able to sear steak on the coldest of days. The walls are something like 2 inch thick ceramic.
Are you two in the northeast? I like the thick, sweet, and spicy sauce from Alabama/Miss/La. we have a smokehouse in town (Colo) and their sauce is close. I love hickory wood with pork, and it’s cooked on open pits in the south. Nothing like it! (Everywhere will claim the same thing wherever they live, lol)
I repaired one for a friend. The green egg is a good one. I have a 55 gallon barrel . I got it off the side of the road cleaned it up . Made a grill out of it . I’m like you on the sauce . Just curious
I do make a barbecue sauce . Actually a few of them . I do like vinegar base . The mustard base just a little bit . But I like it with some honey . From the south . But I’ve lived all over . Been in your state a few times . I was down in South Colorado one time next to Pueblo. Peyote I’ll never forget it. I love food. All kinds. Raw fish is the best. Fresh with the blood pumping. Love a great beef. Food tastes like crap right now. Bacon over cured. Tainted sold in the stores here . Rotting meat . Now since all the grocery stores have gone to order over the phone I wonder if they keep the meat at a proper temperature ? No… vegetables taste like punch miracle grow . It has nothing to do with the c-19. Love goat, lamb and reptile.
The Northeast had traditionally been a desert when it comes to good meats / BBQ.
For instance, bloody roast beef sandwiches was (is?) a thing. Stringy and full of gristle. WTF. That’s not prime rib or tenderloin, folk. Must be the British influence.
Although, it has really improved over the years as we’ve learned to steal everyone’s recipes … then call it our own.
We used to hire someone to roast our pigs but one day I said what the fuck, I can roast my own pig…So I got my own cooker and roasted the pig myself…Here’s my butterflied pig roast with extra crispy skins of course…