50 years of goodness!
Posted on 01/12/2020 10:29:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
When you've been cooking barbecue in Texas for decades, you must be doing something right. At Schulze's Bar-B-Que and Catering in Rosenberg, customers don't leave hungry.
"We've been in business for over 50 years," Schulze's co-owner, Clifford Schulze said. " We just take a lot of pride in our cooking, plus, having good help."
Schulze said the key to successful barbecue isn't just in the seasoning or sauce. Instead, in Texas, it's all about the cook time, and cut of meat.
"I think we take more pride in ours and what we do," Schulze explained. Texas isn't the only place you can get barbecue, Kansas City also prides itself on the dish.
Neither 4-year-old Bear nor Toro could speak, but their eyes said it all.
But with the Texans and Chiefs meeting in the playoffs, barbecue has become personal.
"Texas barbecue is better! That's why the Texans are going to win," Schulze said. " They're used to eating good barbecue."
At Joe's Kansas City, employees would disagree. "We didn't invent it," Joe's Kansas City director of marketing, Doug Worgul said. "We admit that. But, we perfected it."
The big difference between the two regions, Worgul said, is the variety of food.
"Texas is known for its bigness, right? But Texas barbecue is actually a little bit smaller than Kansas City barbecue because we got a bigger menu," Worgul explained.
Like Texas, you can find brisket, sausage and ribs in Kansas City barbecue, but they also put an emphasis on chicken, turkey, and pork. They also prepare something called burnt ends, which is the fatty part of brisket.
"Juicy on the middle," Worgul explained. "Crusty on the outside. Smokey, very intense. It's a great bit of meat candy in your mouth."
While K.C. joints might think they have the better barbecue, Texas has been at it longer.
After 50 years, Shulze's isn't slowing down anytime soon. He's hoping the Texans show the Chiefs that everything is better in Texas.
"The barbecue is going to come out on top, and the Texans are going to come out on top," Schulze said.
The Texans and Chiefs might be enemies during Sunday's playoff game, but the teams mascots' have a relationship that means more than a single game.
Tennessee.
This is going to be interesting. Again.
The age of the pit is important but it all makes a difference including cut of meat, cook time, wood type, temperature, sauce either before, during or after, how long the meat relaxes. It all matters.
We have a place here that built a helipad for the guard troops who flew between camps for summer maneuvers. I don’t think the owners have spent a dime on the place in three generations. Not moist by any means but not dry either, brisket is thin sliced, sauce is OK but the beans and trimmings are the best.
Place in Wichita Falls, Texas is well aged and their product tastes it, really good.
There is lots of good BBQ across the nation. As long as it is not greasy most of it is at least passable.
My impression is Texas BBQ is usually beef, and they aren’t really big on sauces. Just salt and pepper, maybe a rub, but definitely not sweet. They’re not known for their BBQ pork.
Kansas City BBQ covers the gamut of almost all proteins. They typically use tomato-based sauces in their recipes.
If I were given a choice, I would choose Texas for beef, and KC for anything else. I like sauce with my barbecue.
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Barbecue is a matter of civic pride in both areas. KC can have the barbecue crown. Texas has prettier girls (and better weather).
BBQ has its roots in the poor, who used available woods and available meat, slow cooking tough cuts to make them more edible. BBQ in any one area isn’t better or worse, just different.
Concur, there is no barbecue better than a Memphis dry rub.
Great, now I’m jonesing for dry ribs and am over 5,000 miles from a decent barbecue place (in Germany).
My wife is from SW Missouri and is, of course, beautiful.
However, in fairness, the band Little Texas made a compelling counter argument about the qualities of Texas ladies years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH60wCO-Yw
KC, for a plethora of reasons. Moist, sweet, smoky, just enough sauce to keep it wet. Down here in Alabama, they think a dry rub of cayenne and and seed seasons on a nasty dry pig part and burning it over a fire is the height of cuisine. They also think humping their first cousins and spawning a slopehead is calling it a family. Buncha friggin’ social welfare Klingons.
We know who’s better in football!!
Jets?
If you hate this state so much, why don’t you leave. Feel free to do so.
LOL
You may have just lost a few friends in Alabama!
I’ve never visited so I’m neutral :)
They still suck :)
Oh but next year will be their year.../s
NC
I’ve taught myself to cook good BBQ on a green egg. I can now enjoy what I want cooked any way I want. I mostly use dry rubs. Do like sweet on meat. Have recently been experimenting with vinegar mops and marinades.
For pork, Carolina Barbecue which I prefer over just about any other barbecue recipe, but I do smoke certain Meats and very rarely smear sauces or vinegars all over the meat while it’s cooking if I’m going to use a sauce it will generally be a dipping sauce after the meat is prepared.
50 years of goodness!
Same here - lots of sauce and a spare supply to keep the meat “lubricated”.
We visited The Salt Lick when we were in Texas a few years ago. It was pretty good but we’ve had as good, and better, here in NC. The best part was the pit display that everyone can see (and drool over). That visual with the sizzling and incredible aroma is awesome.
If there was a venue doing that kind of BBQ display pit for customers here in NC they would probably be raking in the money.
Peach
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