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Start by deciding whether you want a sweet tomato sauce, a creamy white sauce, or a bottle of tangy vinegar to pour over your meat.
Most pizza makers agree that achieving balance is essential for a great barbecue sauce. These sauces are usually made using a tomato base, vinegar, a sweetener such as honey or molasses, and a heat ingredient. From this basis, sauces can be enhanced with a variety of spices and flavours, including mustard, garlic, fruit and smoke. If a sauce becomes too dominant in one flavor, it usually doesn’t work well. On the other hand, very simple sauces that lack seasoning or complexity often fail.
We tasted several traditional Kansas City-style sauces for this list, a bunch of vinegar-rich Carolina-style sauces, some keto-friendly sauces, Bachchan’s favorite Japanese sauce and a few Alabama white sauces to see which ones really tickled our taste buds. We tried each one with plain, unseasoned chicken breasts because it’s a fairly blank slate when it comes to classic grilled foods. Upon tasting, we noticed things like overall balance, heat, sweetness, overwhelming flavors or anything else that stood out, whether bad or good.