Make Your Own Barbecue Sauce This Summer

Step 2 Further Notes on Ingredients

Sorry I can't come up with an amusing title for this step.

Many people might think this sauce is too hot due to the amount of Frank's in it. That's okay. I can make some suggestions for adaptations, with the caveat that I have not tried any of these (except for item 3), so further experimentation is up to you.

1) Replace the Frank's Red Hot with half of it's amount (1/4 cup in this case) of a decent white wine vinegar. You see, the Frank's isn't there just for the kick. Its vinegar component is an important aspect of the final sauce's flavor.

2) For a sweeter, stickier sauce, increase the amount of honey, up to double if you'd like.

3) For something quite interesting, replace the honey with molasses. This is something I actually have done, and it works very well.

In fact, if I wanted to make a nice, sticky-sweet version of this sauce, I would double the amount of honey (or perhaps go half-honey, half-molasses) and then replace the Franks with 1/4 cup of vinegar as I outline above. I'm going to try that for my next batch.

Comments

[Illustrisimus]

Hi, i am from México and i don't know what is the Frank's Red Hot, can you tell me please where can i found it? or what is the better element for replace.thanx a lot man!

[dmlandrum]

It's a vinegar-based hot chili pepper sauce. Unfortunately, I don't know of an equivalent in Mexico. Here in the States, there is another brand called Tepatio (I hope I'm spelling that right - I don't have a bottle handy) that would work well enough. I think that might be available to you, but I'm not sure. I hope that helps!

[killerjackalope]

The strange and perverse sauce experiment... Nice instructable, short and to the point, then again chuck 'em in a bowl and simmer...

[dmlandrum]

When I started this Instructable, I really thought it was going to be longer than it turned out. It just didn't need more, and it could have been a sub-step in another, larger Instructable. I didn't want to do that, though, as a sauce like this has myriad uses and can stand on its own. I have another two barbecue sauce recipes to post yet. One concerns doctoring up a bottle of the cheap, thin barbecue sauce as found at any grocer, and the other is a non-ketchup-based scratch sauce using Dr. Pepper as a primary ingredient. The latter involves more steps and tools. ;)

[Void Schism]

Dr. Pepper sauce?! Now thats the kind of madness I want with my burger! Good instructable

[killerjackalope]

Cool, because my family don't have much bbq saucable foods I tend to be lazy and use the HP jack daniels one, it's nice and thick... I wonder if BBQ relish would work, like relish but BBQ flavour...