To explain what I mean, I think you can level up a cooking style. For example, pasta. At level 1, you’re boiling dried pasta and adding sauce out of a jar. At level 1, you add your own spices. Level 3, switch to fresh pasta. Level 4, make your own sauce. And finally at level 5, make the pasta from scratch.
So with BBQ, I guess level 1 would be cooking the meat so it’s neither burnt nor underdone. Maybe level 2 is mixing different meats/cuts that have different heat/time requirements and cooking well. Further levels = ?
Can’t say where it fits, but making your own sauce from scratch is master level. Might love the meat, but that sauce is where it’s at.
Eating at a downtown BBQ in Tulsa and the owner overheard my friend say it was awesome, but the sauce wasn’t as good as his place back home in Georgia. LOL my god, set the man on a mission! He kept running back and forth to the kitchen, plying my friend with new mixes.
Black folk do not play when it comes to sauce.
(The “back home” sauce was better. About got into a fist fight with my guy when I guzzled the last bit. Seriously. He was swole. “Back home” guy died, kids kept the shack open, weren’t interested in shipping a case to Oklahoma. Damn.)
Why do Americans seem to think making a sauce is some magic requiring rocket building skills?
I’ve been making my own sauces since I was twelve. Perhaps once I tasted one of those canned “pasta-sauces” as a teenager but they’re disgusting imo.
Unless you’re making your sauce out of fresh tomatoes, it doesn’t even take long. Crushed tomatoes and tomato paste is just fine.
I don’t remember if I be ever really used fresh pasta, tried it maybe once or twice, but I always make the sauce. What do you find so cumbersome in making it?