How to Make Easy Homemade BBQ Sauce

hey guys what’s going on no we’re hereand today we’re gonna be making somebarbecue sauce so this video isrequested by my buddy Sam so here you gomanso this sauce I was making for somepulled chicken sandwiches some smokedchicken sandwiches and I just wanted tomake a little sauce that would bringsome nice Tang eNOS sweetness and spiceup to the sandwich I like to make mysauce is pretty different than atraditional barbecue sauce you get fromthe store so I’m gonna show you guys howyou do that so we start with ketchup andmustard pretty basic just some normalHeinz and yellow mustard about athree-to-one ratio of the ketchup to themustard but just due to the taste youlike then we’re gonna go in with alittle bit of oyster sauce this issomething I’ve been adding to mybarbecue sauces recently and it justadds a nice kind of sweetness and athick texture so that was some applecider vinegar very common in mostbarbecue sauces but you can use whatevervinegar you have on hand that was alittle bit of root beerI don’t normally add root beer but Ijust had it on the counter and I thoughtit would be fun to add now we’restarting with our first spicy ingredientthis is some sriracha and as you guyscan see throughout the rest the videoI’m gonna add some more spice that wassome soy sauce which will you know addsome nice saltiness and umami flavor youmight think soy sauce is a weirdingredient to add to something likebarbecue sauce it doesn’t seem like itwould have a barbecue flavor but it’sjust gonna add a nice roundness to thewhole flavor of the sauce now we’regoing in with some money not a ton ofhoney at first because we already havesome other sweet ingredients and wedon’t want to overpower anything nowsalt pepper be pretty you know mindfulof the seasoning at first because thisis going to reduce down a little bit wedon’t want anything too too salty mixingit up make sure you’re tasting the saucea lot it’s gonna change a lot as we heatit up and is it thickens so you want tomake sure that you’re keeping you knowtabs on the flavor going in some somebasic spices next just granular garlicand onion a little bit of chili powderand cayenne next just for some color butwhatever you know you think would soundgood to youwhatever taste sounds good throw that inthere this is a sauce that you know youcan make really quickly for you knowwhatever type of meat you’re cooking sofeel free to play around with flavorsmixing it up as you can see it’sstarting to reduce down a little bitwe’re getting some more bubbles adding alittle more spice now in the form of redpepper flakelike to add a few different elements ofspice so we can have you know a nicebalance the end of the sauce process ismore about balancing out the flavorsthan anything so now I’m just going into taste so I just added some morevinegar and I’m gonna add a little morehoney in a little bit just to reallytweak it you know it’s reallyfine-tuning here we got most of theflavors we’re looking for but now we’rejust trying to really get it to thatnext level by you know fine-tuningexactly what it tastes like make sureyou’re modulating the temperature prettyclosely on this sauce because you don’twant anything burning there’s a lot ofsugar in here so we’re getting prettyclose to the end here everything’slooking great as you guys can see thisis a pretty different looking sauce thanmost sauces you’d get from the grocerystore I don’t like most of those saucesthey’re gonna be kind of creating abarbecue flavor but we already have abarbecue flavor on the meat we’re justtrying to complement it we don’t want tocover anything up with brown sugarmolasses type flavors so we’re justtrying to create some nice Tang as youguys can see this is the texture we’regoing for you just want it to kind ofcoat coat the spatula and be able to runa streak through the bottom of the potthat’s it