Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Food, Cooking, and Game Preparation Does a non-sweet commercial BBQ sauce exist?

Something alot of people use here and it really isn't a barbeque sauce but is more of a basting sauce or marinade is Wickers out of Missouri. It is a water, vinegar and spice mixture. I inject it into chicken and pork before slow cooking on the grill. Have used it to marinate doves and shrimp. I have seen cooks at big cookings brushing it on pulled pork as they were cooking and pulling the pork.

I looked at those recipes. They may have no added/refined sugars, but the OP is after zero sweetness. Mango, molasses and honey don't fit that bill.

Correct, but as I said at the top, anything can be "adjusted to your liking", when playing at home.

I know, but removing what appears to be a central ingredient stretches my idea of adjusting.

I thought OP wanted a commercially available product?

Cattleman's. Available by the jug in wholesaler stores

+1 on Cattlemans

Maybe my taste buds are wonky. At a Valentine dinner last evening, a friend ordered some soup instead of salad, and really liked it. He suggested that I try a taste and said, "It is not sweet." I tasted it and to my taste it was very sweet. Hmmm.

I really appreciate the suggestions and am working my way through several. Wish I could try them without having to order them all. That vinegar based stuff from the Carolinas sounds interesting, no tomato and no sugar. The only sugar in my hommade stuff so far is from unsweetened natural tomato, but that has enough sugar to taste. I need to mix up some with no tomato.

Thanks!

Thanks. Tried it. Way too sweet for my taste, but with so little sugar that I figure they must have goosed it with Splenda or one of those synthetic sweeteners.

+2 on Cattlemans. We bought it in gallons at Kroger or Winn Dixie, added it to chopped Boston Butts for BBQ sandwiches in the school concession stand. Everyone loved it, not what I would call "sweet".

It sure is. Great stuff.

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Just make some up and have fun doing it.

Stubbs Texas style is pretty good.

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I love wickers, when I do dry ribs, when they have about an hour to go, I'll alternate squeeze butter and wickers every 15 minutes or so, can't go to crazy with the wickers because it is a little salty. It can be hard to find, grocery stores don't carry it anymore and I finally found it after a few years in a specialty store that just opened up.

Kroger’s have been carrying the Wickers sauce lately.