big al’s kansas city barbeque sauce.

this sauce is the shit. this was the first bbq sauce i made and after making it decided to never buy sauce again. made as listed and absolutely awesome. just a ton of awesome stuff combined to taste great. makes a ton! leftovers will taste even better as all these flavors blend overnight. boom.

also made some balsamic bbq sauce!

was also very excellent. i used some cheap balsamic vinegar. i know balsamic vinegar gets real classy being super aged in crazy barrels. next time i’m gonna try using some nicer stuff and see how it turns out.

coated a couple organic chicken breasts that were on sale from the whole foods metropolis by my house in some rubs for about 40 minutes. 2 in my kansas city dry rub, 2 in a famous dave’s chicken rub, and one in a weber grill chicken rub. i brushed some of the balsamic sauce on a kanas city and famous dave one while grilling, the rest i didn’t use sauce while grilling.

all of them turned out pretty great. the dry rubbed ones looked a lot better. it seems grilling without sauce is the way to go. the balsamic on the kanas city rubbed chickens tasted off, lots of dissimilar flavor. however, the best was the kanas city dry rubbed one served with the kansas city sauce! served with some fresh coleslaw and was great!

dry rubbed grilled chicken.

made some kansas city dry rub and mocha java dry rub. this was my first time using dry rubs and they are pretty sweet. marinating takes at least 12 hours in meats to really soak in. i feel they kinda taint the meat and make it a little tougher though.

dry rubs season the meat before, during and after grilling. i dry rubbed my chicken breasts, refrigerated for an hour, and pulled out 20 minutes before grilling. this is to get the meat to room temperature. when you throw it on the grill, it’s less of a temperature shock than cold meats. the recipes also made for a lot of the dry rub so i put them in tupperware containers and will experiment more in the future.

grilled medium-low for about 10-12 minutes per side. came out looking great! i was getting the beginning of my sinus infection so couldn’t really taste much, but everyone said they were incredible. i tried 2 days later and was blown away. can’t wait to have them fresh. the kansas city rub went great with the bourbon whiskey bbq sauce i made. the coffee dry rub was kinda weird on chicken, but look forward to trying it on beef and pork!