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BBQ BATTLE: Whose Is Better, Houston or Kansas City?
ABC13 ^ | 9/12 | Nick Natario

Posted on 01/12/2020 10:29:41 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 01/12/2020 10:29:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Tennessee.


2 posted on 01/12/2020 10:32:13 PM PST by ocrp1982 (ll)
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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.


3 posted on 01/12/2020 10:40:08 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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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.


4 posted on 01/12/2020 10:43:56 PM PST by be-baw
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Coming to bookstores soon: “How to Piss Away a Three-Touchdown Lead and Lose By 20 Points” by Bill O’Brien, former head coach of the #HoustonTexans .

Barbecue is a matter of civic pride in both areas. KC can have the barbecue crown. Texas has prettier girls (and better weather).


5 posted on 01/12/2020 10:54:21 PM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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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.


6 posted on 01/12/2020 11:21:52 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: ocrp1982

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).


7 posted on 01/12/2020 11:29:25 PM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: OrangeHoof

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


8 posted on 01/12/2020 11:40:21 PM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: nickcarraway

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.


9 posted on 01/12/2020 11:58:59 PM PST by Viking2002 (Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
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We know who’s better in football!!


10 posted on 01/13/2020 12:33:16 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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Jets?


11 posted on 01/13/2020 12:42:10 AM PST by nickcarraway
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If you hate this state so much, why don’t you leave. Feel free to do so.


12 posted on 01/13/2020 2:12:28 AM PST by BamaBelle (The storm has arrived!)
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LOL

You may have just lost a few friends in Alabama!

I’ve never visited so I’m neutral :)


13 posted on 01/13/2020 2:59:28 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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They still suck :)

Oh but next year will be their year.../s


14 posted on 01/13/2020 3:01:11 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: ocrp1982

NC


15 posted on 01/13/2020 3:05:06 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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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.


16 posted on 01/13/2020 3:17:45 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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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.


17 posted on 01/13/2020 3:43:17 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Austin has the Salt Lick BBQ (Driftwood, Texas)


50 years of goodness!

18 posted on 01/13/2020 4:27:31 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: be-baw

Same here - lots of sauce and a spare supply to keep the meat “lubricated”.


19 posted on 01/13/2020 4:31:10 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: outofsalt

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


20 posted on 01/13/2020 4:43:31 AM PST by CarolinaPeach
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