How To Choose The Best Barbecue Sauce For Your Cooking Style?

These days, barbecue can be defined as a method in which you slow cook you're meat at low temperature for long periods of time

. The most well known meats for barbecue are pork, ribs, brisket, whole pigs, mutton roasts and other pork or beef products. The term barbecue is used not only to describe the cooking process of the food, but it also entails the process of making a good barbecue sauce that goes with the preparation of the meat.

Historians are still unsure of where barbecue originated and who invented it. There is a possibility that the term originates from the Taino Indian word barbacoa, which is a term that means meat-smoking device. A second possibility is that it comes from a French expression barbe a queue, which means whiskers to tail.

In the American culture barbecue began in the later period of the 19th century during cattle drives. The Midwestern cowboys would consume large quantities of tough meat with a dipping barbecue sauce, which more often than not was brisket, a meat that requires several hours of cooking before it is served.

If you are looking into cooking styles of barbecue, here are four styles to choose from:

Texas beef brisket is a cooking style of barbecue that entails one of the toughest pieces of meat. This type of meat takes several hours to cook and is served with a thick tomato based barbecue sauce.

Owensboro Mutton is a type of meat that can be traced as far back as the early 1800's. This is back in the time when the production of sheep became a major profit center for farmers in the United States. It is made by putting sliced meat on a piece of white bread and then adding vinegar sauce and is cooked primarily in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Pulled pork is a delicacy that is more than likely the first original American barbecue. This process includes slow cooking the meat from a whole pig or selected cuts that are pulled apart by hand and served with a vinegar based barbecue sauce on top.

Ribs are the most common and well liked barbecue style of meat. This meat tastes the best when it is cooked in the traditional manner by slow cooking on low heat. They are usually cooked by racks and served with a thick tomato based barbecue sauce.

So, no matter which style you choose from the above article, you are sure not to go wrong, especially if you include a tasty style of barbecue sauce, either tomato or vinegar based.

by: John Schnieder

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