Best BBQ Sauce in KC
 

Who has the best bbq sauce? Gates got beat 4-1 against Bryant's on the travel channel today.



What's your fav KC sauce? Today is a slow day here. I got my clip....I got my gun lets go find the haters.


I like Gates myself, but I have not tried any other sauce lol.

KC Masterpiece

LOL

I buy Arthur Bryants Sweet and then buy their spicy, and mix them. its the best mix ive ever had to put on pork.

Ban?


I hate that shit.

I've been away from KC so long I cant remember.

Adrian's was pretty good. Do they still make it.

Haven't had any since 96

that makes up for the botch alex, awesome catch

Ha!

That was an obvious joke.

whoops

LOL Wrong thread...

Black Market BBQ in Columbia.

I know brah.


That's all I had when I was young. Corn dogs and KC Masterpiece. Wasn't much of a ketchup kid. Got burnt out quick on KCM

I'm pretty reserved with sauce. But I think my honest favorites belong to Oklahoma Joe's; Night of the Living + brisket is pretty damn nice. I also am a fan of the celery salt-heavy L.C.'s sauce.

Holy shit I just went to ABs website to purchase some of their BBQ sauce, talk about over priced. I got 3-18oz jars from Gates for $27. Shipping was like $13 though.

Depends on what it's being used with.

I like heywards for a more standard sauce, jack stack for a little sweetness.

I've had one from Alaska called brown bear that was pretty good.

Ok Joes Night of the Living BBQ Sauce

I like Jack Stack on my Brisket and Gates on my pork...



the local hardware store here in Prospect, KY(just outside of Louisville) stocks Gates sauce!!! WOO-HOO!!!!

Gates is good...but Oklahoma Joes is the best I've ever had!

Yep.

Both OK Joes sauce...

Prefer NOTL BBQ sauce

Just had some tonight at a party, mmm mmm.

Just grabbed it out of the mini fridge right next to my chair.

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Most unique is Arthur Bryants regular sauce.
Gates standard sauce is what KC BBQ is all about.
Boutique BBQ sauces I like are 3 pigs, Firebug and Mr. Doggity's BBQ Sauce.

Okla Joes is OK, not my favorite. LC's sauce is OK too. Again, not my favorite.

Non KC sauces I like the best are Stubbs from Texas, Roadhouse from Illinois and Rendevous from Memphis.

Haywards is one of my favs, Gates is good, LCs

I bought Roadhouse at the American Royal BBQ a few years ago. LOVE this stuff, and it's getting hard to find:

http://www.hotsauceworld.com/roorbbqsa.html

That's the kind I just ordered, 2 regular and 1 spicy. Looks like I'm going to try OJs Night of the Living

I really love the sauce from Wabash BBQ in Excelsior Springs, too.

Will add that I bought that Gates Sauce at Dillon's in Wichita. Was pretty surprised they carry it.

What happened with your buddy that was making sauce?

Seems like we have this conversation every week.

Nope no we don't not at all.



What's your favorite sauce there good buddy?

NOTL BBQ sauce is great. If I buy sauce from the store, it's usually Curley's Famous Hickory BBQ.

He's doing great, thanks for asking. I just saw him earlier tonight. I don't talk about him as much on the CP because people think I'm spamming the board for him.

His sauce is doing very well, and his catering business is starting to take off now that the weather is getting nice. He's got a very cool BBQ rig, and he's re-habbing an old 1952 Dodge Panel Van to pull the rig. That should be on the road by mid-summer. He also still has his radio show on Sunday Mornings on KCMO. That's going well too. He hobnobs with all the big chefs and foodies in KC, and he's starting to get a reputation as a go-to guy for BBQ.

You can see his site here:
http://www.mrdoggity.com

I also really like the Firebug sauce, which is a local sauce too. Highly recommend it if you see it in the store. I tried some and really like it a lot:
http://www.firebugkc.com/

Right now their (Wabash) spicy sauce is my favorite. But I love Gates and Bryants too. I go through phases. Right now I think I'm kind of burnt out on Gates. I'm behind the times and still haven't had OK Joe's. Jack Stack is the only one listed that I've had and personally wouldn't rank very high.

A lot of people who try Bryant's for the first time don't like it at all, because it's so different from anything they've ever had before. It's not a sweet, grocery store sauce like Kraft, or Maull's, or Bulls Eye, or KC Masterpiece, or whatever other crap is being sold for $.99 a bottle.

Bryants on brisket is a one of a kind taste experience. I wouldn't feed it to kids, but for adults, its wunnerful.

I need to grab some of doggity's sauce some day. Some of my favorites have already been mentioned especially Firebug but nobody has said "Blues Hog" yet. That stuff is pretty spectacular on pulled pork.

If you go to a music show at Knucklehead's, they serve Doggity BBQ sauce as their sandwich sauce. The couple who owns Knucks are good friends with Mr. Doggity's mom, they all grew up together in the old KC east side neighborhood. Knucklehead's is an outstanding live music venue, always a good time.

We don't often venture out of Lee's Summit especially with a waddling 6 months preggo wife. But yeah, will be keeping an eye out for a bottle.

There's a place in downtown Lee's Summit called "A Place in Thyme" that carries Mr. Doggity's sauce. You should be able to buy it there.

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You recommend this on pulled pork?

Yeah - I know it well. I built their teaching kitchen. It's "A Thyme For Everything". I helped get Shannon in there to the best of my recollection.

Oh, absolutely. Or chopped brisket. Yeah. It's silly. I don't sauce my ribs often but I'll bet it will carmelize up nicely on ribs too. First listed ingredient is brown sugar.

They have about 5-6 flavors, do you remember which one it was?


http://www.hawgeyesbbq.com/blueshog/

Just the straight up BBQ sauce - their flagship product. Never had any of their other stuff.

I use this stuff when I make pulled pork sandwiches. The name change was dumb and gay, but the sauce is good.

http://www.bryansblend.com/

Damn, can't purchase it on that site

Gates will always be the perfect sauce to me.

You guys are killing me with this thread, I had two peanut butter and butter sandwiches for dinner, and now I come on here and read this. Damn. I love good BBQ, now that is second on my list after Taco makings for when I go shopping, and I am stranded at home until the repair truck picks up my wheel chair and takes it to the shop to repair and delivers it back to meagain, which means I'll gorge myself when I am finally get these done. The last BBQ I had was ground beef cooked crumbly with BBQ sauce out of the bottle, pretty much the quality depends upon the sauce.

You won't find it in any stores. It's a local sauce out of Tonganoxie, KS called Fat Sam's. The absolute perfect mixture of sweet and spicy.

So, what was the time before that? Was it something different than hamburger doused in BBQ sauce? I mean, did it have some smoke flavor provided by real smoke?

ROFL I was thinking the same thing. If San Diego BBQ is ground beef with BBQ sauce, I'll stick with Mexican if I'm ever in the area.

Gadzooks should be banned for posting that shit.


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Smokehouse/Jack Stack, pretty much the same, pure awesomeness.

Gates is very easy to mimic at home. Nothing like that available in AL, so I make my own. My recipe base started with the Gates version, but now you would hardly recognize it. Tasty stuff.

Firebug

sweet baby rays for ribs and pork

gates for beef

There's a new bbq place down here in S. florida everyone has been talking about so the wife and i checked it out. the house sauce said KC Cattlemans, it's Gates no doubt about it.

Order it online

Did you actually read my post? Why would I order it online when it's very easy to mimic (and cheaper, certainly, than mail order) for yourself. Besides, the changes that I made to the recipe make mine better.

Maybe you should start a business. I'm sure your BBQ sauce is far from Gates.

Gates is my personal favorite with Arthur Bryant's a second.

Non-KC - Sweet Baby Rays

Best non KC BBQ places - Jack's in Nashville and Rendezvous Ribs in Memphis. If you could put some Gates sauce on those, it would be amazing.

I guess its "Thyme" I get their name right!

They are now in Moberly and even opened a little restaurant

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I'm partial to 3 Buddeez One of a Rind bbq sauce. Of course I make it, so this is sort of a shameless plug. It's not available at too many places other than McGonigles and a few Hyvees right now tho. Make with sweet pickled watermelon rinds as the thickener. Great on chicken and ribs.

Here's what I typically have in the fridge:

Firebug - #1 without a doubt.
LC's original
Gates X hot
Blues Hog

Is Firebugs available for purchase online?

Certainly.

http://www.bbqfans.com/products/Fire...BBQ-Sauce.html

http://www.bbqaddicts.com/rubs-sauces/firebug/

Awesome, thanks.

Is that a store bought sauce? Or does it come from an actual BBQ joint?

jack stack regular sauce is pretty good shit

This goes onto all of my meats when grilling. I don't use it as a side sauce after the meat is cooked, but I cook it "into" the meat. Great sauce.

Lawrence stores stopped carrying it, but I found a HyVee in Lenexa that still carries it. I'm trying to talk my friend who just opened a BBQ supply store in Lawrence to carry it. I'm sure he will.

Firebug and Blues Hog. Both sauces I use regularly. And both because of a thread a few years ago where both you and George recommended to try those two sauces. Excellent advice.

Gates replica sauce. It's a very close approximation to Gates original.

This recipe gets better if you toast your spices and use homemade chili powder.

It's made by a fella in Lee's Summit. Small distribution. Mainly found locally around KC, and at a few choice BBQ stores and local supermarkets.

http://www.firebugkc.com/news.html

If you can't find it online, PM me your info and I'll pick you up a bottle next time I run to the market. I'll do it on good faith that you'll pay me back after I send it out.

Good stuff, info was sent.

Alright...it will probably be this weekend by the time I get to the store. But I'll get it shipped out to you.

LC's Hot. Awesome stuff.

Any answer other than Gates is just silly.