Blues Hog

Well I never cook with this directly. I always cut it 50/50 so not as thick. Started with Sweet Baby Rays and then to Bone Sucking Sauce. Now use the Franklins. Would that help you?

Yeah I too BBQ for my health. :-O

I too tried the Bone Sucking sauce and did not care for it. But I gave a second chance in BAked Bean recipe and it worked in there! I will try the Blues Hog for sure.

I use blues hog as a base for every comp. Cook i do. I love the sause they make.

@stlcharcoal Blues Hog is from just north of you in Missouri. He use to have a small BBQ place in Perry, MO

Tspud1 said:

@stlcharcoal Blues Hog is from just north of you in Missouri. He use to have a small BBQ place in Perry, MO

Bill Arnold's place there in Perry has been closed for years!

@RRP, I did say "use" to. Ate there one time, only 45 miles from home.

This aversion to HFCS, where people avoid two almost identical products because one has cane sugar and the other HFCS, is ridiculous.  You need to avoid sugar, not avoid one type over the other.  So don't eat ketchups, regardless of the ingredients, because they all have sugar.

Can sugar is sucrose.  Your body breaks that down to glucose and fructose. Corn syrup is already broken down sucrose, and you can do this in your kitchen - it's called invert sugar and you can mix acid with sugar and it "seems" sweeter after the breakdown.  One molecule of sucrose breaks down to one molecule of glucose and one fructose.  So your body takes cane sugar and turns it into corn syrup.  BBQ sauce isn't a main course (at least I hope not).  You should consume an ounce or two with a meal - about the same serving size as ketchup.  So you might get 10-15 grams of sugar.  Compare that to a can of Coke, which is around 40 grams of sugar. 

There are no credible medical studies that have proven the glucose/fructose blends of HFCS or invert sugars are more unhealthy than cane (sucrose) sugar.  What there is, is a fad, just like butter is good for you one year and bad the next.  The chemistry and biology of the two sugar sources is well known, and the one thing that studies have definitively shown true is excessive sugar causes health problems.

nolaegghead said:

Let me add - corn sweeteners are cheap.  So they end up in the cheapest foods, and those are usually the least healthy.  If you're going to just look at the sugar source to evaluate "eat or not eat", then that may be a good field barometer or screen for the quality of the food.  So in that respect, even though it has nothing to do with the reality of the relative healthfulness of the type of sugar, it may be a good thing to tell people to watch for as a guideline. 

As to your health, avoid all simple sugars (unfortunately they are ubiquitous) so you limit them as a percentage of your caloric intake. 

well said...but does it have gluten In it? )

@SGH - we would die without sugar.  How awesome is that?

I urge everyone avoiding HFCS to read this short article in it's entirety to reset the brainwashing that we've been fed by diet plans and marketers (yes, marketing is taking advantage of this hype). 

Learn as much as you can about the food you eat and try to filter out the bs.  MSG is another story - SWMBO almost goes into A-fib if she eats too much of it.  So we avoid it.

Here's the article:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup_and_health

@SGH - sounds good!

PS - I love MSG.  I used to buy the 1Kg bags at the Hong Kong market.  But I've had to cut it out of my cooking because of SWMBO's sensitivity.  I'll add fish sauce or soy to get the umami flavor to my food only.

nolaegghead said:

@SGH - we would die without sugar.  How awesome is that?

I urge everyone avoiding HFCS to read this short article in it's entirety to reset the brainwashing that we've been fed by diet plans and marketers (yes, marketing is taking advantage of this hype). 

Learn as much as you can about the food you eat and try to filter out the bs.  MSG is another story - SWMBO almost goes into A-fib if she eats too much of it.  So we avoid it.

Here's the article:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup_and_health

I agree with you on the HFCS thing......I think it's more marketing than anything else.  But I do know that real sugar crystalizes better on the grill (Maillard reaction)--that's why I try to use more real sugar in cooking.

I avoid MSG like the plague.  That stuff wires me--it gets in my brain and I have crazy dreams in this half sleep stage most of the night.  The problem is now they say "No MSG", but the put in "disodium guanylate", beet extract, or some other version of it that isn't technically "MSG".

Is MSG the stuff that makes your pee smell funny when you eat Chinese food?