Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes Reviews

• Barbecue For Yuppies

  
  By A2K33VWYQC9C2W on 2001-07-11
  Mr. Raichlen has become an industry onto himself, complete with retail website. This book will sell a ton of copies no matter what I say, but I have some serious reservations about this cookbook.

  The author has the gift of gab, which is a very good thing in this case. He has spent considerable time with the best of the barbecue pros, and it shows. Just reading through this one picks up a wealth of information, and you can't help but learn.

  One problem is the recipes. A dirty trick is to present a fantastic recipe that relies on an obscure or hard to get ingredient, and this book is full of them. Most of these recipes will not become a part of your cooking repetoire. Another problem is that the majority of the recipes cover a wide range of international recipes. Traditional, american barbecue gets a scant 50 pages of the nearly 300 pages of this book. Even here, he favors the upscale and chic.

  There is a tendency to favor the trendy, like flavor injectors and chutneys. He also goes through topics such as compound butters and flavored oils. Also, if you believe his side comments, all of his recipes go with all types of meats, seafoods and vegetables. In one of the more interesting sections, he has some rare recipes for mustards, ketchup, and hot sauces.

  I also have one beef with the graphics of this book: many pages have a sidebar that is colored brown. As a result, it is hard to read the text in them.

  This book seems to have been aimed at people who will probably never get within a country mile of a smoker. It covers a lot of ancillary subjects, and the topics covered range all over the place. This makes for very good reading, but little hard information. This book is closer to a personal diary than a cookbook. I can recommend this book because it is so interesting. However, if you are serious about barbecue, you will need a few other books beside this one in your collection. It certainly is not a "bible".
  
  

• Good for grillers looking to step up

  
  By on 2004-01-19
  If you are have a metal charcoal or gas grill, and are looking to expand your horizons beyond basic grilling, this is a good book. If you own an offset firebox or ceramic kamado type smoker, but are still buying your rub and sauces, `Smoke & Spice' is a better investment. If you already own 'Smoke & Spice' you have better versions of all of the traditional recipes already.

  The author includes Liquid Smoke in many of his sauce recipes, something that would make most experienced pitmasters cringe. Why put artificial tasting smoke flavor in a sauce when the food is being smoked already? There are indeed some interesting recipes from other cultures, and there is a useful though somewhat out of date listing for shopping sources for some of the more exotic ingredients. The chart of the effects of various common ingredients is very good, and would be very useful to any newcomer I should think. It is also a nice reference to have even for experienced pitmasters when thinking over new recipes.

  In general however, I found that the recipes make use of too many ingredients, and yet when prepared tasted no better than traditional recipes I've been using for years and that are considerably less complicated. The reason is simple. Good barbecue gets it's flavor from being slow cooked at low temperatures with just the right amount of smoke, not because the cook used a dozen ingredients in the rub and another two dozen in the sauce. Everything from the cover layout to the number of ingredients called for and the sheer number of recipes makes me feel the author went for quantity rather than balance or quality.
  
  

• Try out the BBQ sauces

  
  By A2AJUX70GIZWKV on 2003-02-05
  I previously purchased the BBQ Bible. This is a great companion book to that. I never made my own BBQ sauce before but now I make it as much as I can. Everyone goes crazy over the sauces in this book. It was a pretty funny scene when I was trying to make two of the sauces at the same time. One was the Jack Daniel's one that hot and the other was the smokey one. Well don't try making two at once because I getting shot from two sides with bubbling sauce and you have to stir it for the whole 20 minutes. I have made some of the butters and some of the rubs. The best rub I have used was the one for the BBQ ribs that is part of a feature page in the book. I can't say enough about this book. You will enjoy it.
  
  

• A wonderful compendium of savory, easy-to-use recipes!

  
  By A14OJS0VWMOSWO on 2000-07-04
  Barbecue! Bible Sauces, Rubs And Marinades, Bastes, Butters & Glazes provides the aspiring chef with an single volume, in-depth education on transforming common grilled meats and seafood into exceptional barbecues that will delight even the most discriminating palates and satisfy the most robust appetites. From Irish Whiskey Glaze, Honey-Pepper Barbecue Sauce, and Cambodian Barbecue Dipping Sauce, to Green Peppercorn Mustard, Flame-Charred Salsa Verde, and Peach-Pecan Chutney, Barbecue! Bible Sauces, Rubs And Marinades, Bastes, Butters & Glazes offers more than two hundred savory, easy to use recipes.
  
  

• Essential to advance from Neanderthal cooking

  
  By A13UK3BKG0CGJL on 2001-05-02
  Once you get this book, you will look back on your grilling and barbecuing with sheepish embarrassment if all you do is slather store-bought sauce on a piece of meat and fiddle with it over a flame. This book will show you how to add the missing ingredient in the latter method -- love.

  Steven Raichlin takes barbecuing seriously, to the point where he actually goes to barbecue competitions to interview top teams and seeks different styles of barbecue in his world travels. He dispenses with all his knowledge in the following chapters:

  1. Introduction: Building Better Barbecue -- The Flavor Factor 2. A Refresher Course: Everything You Need to Know About Barbecuing and Grilling 3. Seasonings and Rubs 4. Marinades, Wet Rubs, and Spice Pastes 5. Bastes, Mops, Glazes, Oils, Finishing Sauces, and Butters 6. American Barbecue Sauces 7. World Barbecue Sauces 8. Slather Sauces 9. Salsas, Relishes, Sambals, and Chutneys

  Don't worry if you live in a rural area where fresh spices and ingredients may be lacking. Raichlin also provides internet and mail order contacts for the essentials. This book will transform the House of Bland into a culinary temple. Be sure to have plenty of napkins with you so you don't drool over all the pages.
  
  

• another winner entry from Raichlen and Workman Press
  By A28C33K8LPE6FX on 2000-07-04
  This book is a barbecue cooks' dream. If you just know bbq sauce from the grocery or Grandpa's recipe, here is your chance to put that right. Dozens of wonderful sounding recipes. The perfect companion to the former 'Barbecue Bible'. Recipes from every corner of the world. Your grill will never be the same.
  
  
• Barbecue is not catsup on hamburger
  By A1LBFCJF56VQHL on 2000-07-12
  This book is positive proof that we were meant to eat meat cooked with fire and smoke. Vegitarians need not apply.
  
  
• Throw away those old bottles of BBQ sauces in your kitchen!
  By A2AR36IW1TQYLY on 2000-06-27
  Steven Raichlen followup book to the BBQ Bible is a great recipe and reference guide for all lovers of grilling or BBQing. The new book follows the same great format as the "Bible" with cooking tips, interesting background info on the recipes, and most of all practical, easy to prepare recipes with tons of flavors from the United States and around the world. Favorites already are the "lean and mean texas bbq sauce", the different but flavorful "lemonade chili rub" and the "chimichurri" sauce from south america. I will be trying the more exotic recipes from around the world such as "puerto rican pig powder" soon. If you already have the first book, buying this one is a given. if you are a bbq lover or grill master, you will have a hard time getting to the grill before reading this one cover to cover. And after making your first homemade sauce, those old bottles of sauce will be out of the kitchen!
  
  
• A Great Accompaniment
  By A3FC9ZK64Z1DAV on 2003-07-20
  You're wrong if you think Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes is just a comilation of recipes garnered from Raichlen's BBQ Bible. The recipes are not in his other books for the most part and are great additions to the fantasic dishes in the Bible!
  Because of Raichlen's recipes for Tandoori Chicken and other Indian dishes, I am now cooking these on my grill. The meat is great! But wait until you add some authentic chutneys, sambals and raita to accompany your main dish. This book is filled with Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes ( duh) that MAKE everything I've cooked even more authentic and delicious.
  As far as I'm concerned no one writes a better cook book on BBQ, grilling, etc Raichlen is the god of fire!
  People rave over my Indian food and traditional bbq - chicken, beef,etc. The secrets are in THIS book and the rest of the BBQ Bible / BBQ USA / How to Grill series.
  If you bbq, you need Raichlen's cook books.
  This book is full of delicious accompaniments. And has made everything I grill so much tastier to eat.
  I'm happy with this purchase!
  John Row
  
  
• Upgrade your grilling/smoking TODAY!
  By AWA0F6SF6MO7M on 2003-01-29
  This is one of the best books you should buy if you are into grilling and/or smoking foods. It is the one I use the most (I own about 6-8 books). If you want to upgrade the flavor of anything you cook, this is the book for you. I commonly keep some of the rubs in the pantry and usually have at least one of the barbeque sauces in the fridge. My pepper grinder has the six-pepper blend in it all the time. I have even tried a mustard and ketchup from the book with great success! You don't have to be a good chef to use this book (how hard is it to mix spices?).

  A previous reviewer listed that many of the recipes contain a "hard to find" ingredient. I don't think that is an entirely fair assesment. The book author provides links in the back of the book to numerous mail order houses where you can buy all the ingredients you need. It is well worth it. I found that for a relatively modest investment in 4-6 spices (~[$$]) I have been able to make everything I have been interested in.

  I really really really like this book.
  
  

• The View From Saturday
  By on 2000-07-04
  A superb tale of four very different individuals who are placed on a sixth grade academic team that is coached by a parapalegic teacher. The team is an unexpected blowout when the Academic Bowl begins. This group of diverse students find their lives are somehow intertwined and the combination they make is a wonderful winning mixture. Everyone wants to know how Mrs. Olinski came to pick these four students. Mrs. Olinski has a hard time even answering this question herself.
  
  
• An must have for any kitchen.
  By AJ19ZTPY3IDRB on 2002-06-25
  I love this book. Raichlen presents his material in an easy to read, easy to understand format. I recommend this book to amateurs and veterans alike because of it's depth of knowledge and wide spectrum of recipes.

  It is true that a lot of the sauce and rub recipes include ingredients that are not to common to everyone's pantry. However, these spices are readily available online or at a specialty market. I've learned a tremendous amount about flavors from working with these spices - That's what makes it fun.

  Raichlen also discuses technique which is very important. If you read and follow his simple instruction, you really can produce some great BBQ.

  I highly recommend this book.
  
  

• Damn fine tasty recipes
  By on 2002-08-30
  This is a wonderful book. Every recipe I've tried has come out with fantastic results. Some of them have more exotic ingredients, but others have pretty common ones (ex. lemon, garlic, butter). All of them have been absolutely delicious. With this book, I've cooked some steaks that people have said were better than those they'd eaten at the Seattle Ruth Chris Steakhouse or Daniels. (Of course the aged tendeloin steaks from Larry's and a nice gas BBQ help). I really like the recipe's for "The only mariade you'll ever need", the P.D.T. (Pretty Damn Tasty) Sourpuss Lemon Chicken Marinade), Sweet Sesame-Soy Marinade, and the ADOBO (Cuban Garlic Marinade).

  My brother-in-law liked this ADOBO steak so much, he wanted the name of this book to go and buy it, so I'm going to give it to them as a housewarming present now that they can have a BBQ again.
  
  

• Good book for beginners
  By AEO1L073HMSPQ on 2007-01-18
  If you are a beginner to BBQ sauces then this book is for you. If you are a serious BBQ Hound like myself, its OK.
  
  
• Can't go wrong with this book
  By A13MN9FXTJ3GRM on 2002-03-26
  Any book by Steve Raichlen is a must have, including this one. Every recipe I've tried is a keeper. I've had friends over for dinner using these recipes and I get nothing but compliments. The wife says it's like eating in a fancy restaurant. It has really helped spice up our usual boring fare at home. Try the avocado salsa on fish. It's awesome! This needs to be in your library.
  
  
• Great book! definitely worth the price.
  By A3C2A3D2KG1F1A on 2005-04-20
  If you are lookin' into making your own sauces, rubs, marinades, salsas, mop sauces, butters, bastes (the list goes on and you get the point) then get this book! Sure, there are ingredients that are tough to find... if you don't have the internet! (in fact you can find most rare ingredients right here on Amazon).
  
  I have read previous reviews that say something along the lines of "Why buy all of those ingredients for BBQ sauce, when you can just get some at the store for a buck?" Well, first, if you want to make your own BBQ sauce (which is why you bought the book... right?) then of coarse you can expect a lot of ingredients... I mean... you don't just mix ketchup and A1 and call it a BBQ sauce! you have to make it right and make it good! Second, it's not like you will never use those spices you bought again! You only need a teaspoon of this, a 1/2 teaspoon of that...etc, soon you will have a great collection of spices and you will be able to make anything! So yeah, you might have to buy a bunch of spices, but you'll be able to make the BBQ sauce with them at least 10 times plus have the spices for other goodies such as rubs or what-have-you.
  
  Anyways, enough ranting about other reviews, this book is great. It's completely packed with all kinds of great recipes from all over the world. Steven obviously knows his stuff and he has a sort of humor that makes the book enjoyable to read. The organization is so-so. You might be in the middle of a chapter (such as American BBQ sauces) and all of the sudden he will present a huge "How To Make Your Own Sauce" type of deal. Although the info is great, it's just placed in an ackward spot. It's not at the end of a chapter, nor in the beginning, it's right smack dab in the middle. There aren't any pictures either, just little drawing peppered through-out that don't really relate to the recipes.
  
  Minor quams aside, I recommend this book!
  
  
• A good starting point.....
  By AMAVO4LME6G87 on 2003-08-29
  I have used some of the sauces verbatum and have tinkered with others. The results have been uniformly excellent. It's a good starting point to develelop your own grilling recipies and techniques. The strength of the book is that it gets you thinking about how to create sauces and creating your own sauces is part of what grilling/barbeque is all about. I expect to go back to this book again and again.
  
  
• Outstanding Book for the BarBeQue Chef!
  By APDJAP3RELMS5 on 2001-06-04
  As the title implies, this book has some outstanding recipes for various sauces, dry rubs and other essentials for the BarBeQue fanatic. There are also recipes for ketchups, mustards, various hot sauces, sambals, chutneys, relishes, salsas. Essentially anything that goes with BarBeQue. Raichlen goes worldwide with recipes from Asia, Europe, the Mediterranean, the Carribean, .... anyplace that makes BarBeQue in any form. Forget the store-bought stuff and get this book if you are at all into BarBeQue!
  
  
• Excellent read, excellent food.
  By A17XKSWA7OSA96 on 2002-12-21
  This book is for everyone interested in great barbecue. The recipes included will work fantastic as they are, or can be the start of developing your own. I have tried several recipes, all have been a big hit. I can also recommend Steven Raichlen's book "How to Grill".
  
  
• Sauces, Rubs and Marinades etc. by Steven Raichlen
  By A33W7H6INMDVFF on 2005-07-28
  I took a course at Greenfield Community College with a few of my friends. We had so much fun barbecueing and learning to use Steven Raichlen's books which came highly recommened. I have had a ball trying different receipes this summer and my family is quit impressed with my creativity. What fun! Best purchase I ever made!
  
  
• A must have for the serious barbecue fan
  By ATCMUXWKIH7QM on 2005-08-13
  This is the third time I have purchased this book. I have given several copies away to friends after they have eaten something prepared from the recipes in here. I highly reccommend .
  
  
  
• made a mistake i can't forgive
  By A1RFIDBG9X863X on 2005-12-20
  In his Authentic Buffalo Hot Sauce recipe he says to use Tobasco. He either has stock in Tabasco sauce or honestly doesn't know what's in real Buffalo Wing sauce. A lot of rub recipes and sauce recipes that are good, but how can he make that mistake? Tabasco?
  
  
• From a weekend barbecue warrior
  By A1AHG76Y8S89BJ on 2006-07-12
  Let me first say that I love barbecuing, and I guess you do, or you wouldn't even be checking this or any other barbecue book. I try to grill my family dinners almost every weekend, so I would have to say that I have put on thousands of barbecues this far. I consider this book great because with the recipes on it I can try every now and then to make something a little bit different (I guess just to avoid a mutiny among my family crew, Ja Ja).
  
  I don't have to do a fancy or hard to find ingredients, or follow step-by-steps a recipe that might requires to long, but I get great ideas that help me introduce variations that keep the weekends barbecues interesting and fun the whole family.
  
  In this book you will find some recipe or idea that you can try, or just learn something new from the "Crash course on grilling and barbecuing" included at the beginning of the book.
  
  Last, but not least, always enjoy the experience of barbecuing and grilling at home, with or without this book. With your own recipes or with borrowed recipes. Just enjoy the moment and have a lot of fun with family and friends around the grill.
  
  
  
• Great book
  By A38SVIYY5LTJ1A on 2007-05-26
  This is just another great book by Steven. I highly recommend purchasing all of his books as there is a ton of info in them as well as more recipes than you can enjoy in a lifetime.
  
  
• a reader from maine
  By on 2000-06-23
  I will get alot of use from this book during the summer! Lots of great information and easy recipes. The buffalo wing sauce was terrific and got rave reviews from everyone at dinner.
  
  
• Thank God for the Barbecue Bible.
  By AE8IBOP3MF64 on 2001-06-02
  ...These are the sauces that will give eternal life. The Rubs given to we The Chosen People are unequaled. The Marinades bless we the hungry, for we shall inherit the grub. Bastes that would have made Job give up. And the butters and glazes that Christ would have been happy to have at the last supper. Yes this is THE book on barbecuing. Thank the Lord.
  
  
• THE book for barbecue sauces!!!
  By A2OHX9TK58OXNL on 2001-06-26
  This book is wonderful. I have already improved my grilling 100% in just the few days that I have owned this book. The recipies that I have tried so far have all been wonderful.
  
  
• Very good...
  By on 2002-04-25
  This is a good cookbook with a wide range of grilling recipes from around the world.
  
  
• Great book, many recipes, good price!! can't go wrong
  By A1YXY2CHZHCMEP on 2004-04-20
  This is a great book for someone who likes to BBQ, and even someone who never has. It shares the good points of rubs,sauces, and marinades. The book is filled with all kinds of different recipes. The recipes also give you ideas on how to come up with your own recipes so you can wow your summer time guests!!! It goes through the many aspects of a good sauce or rub. It shows how to build your own and what kind of meat to use it on. Overall a great learning book that will pay for itself by the many compliments you will recieve from your guests and family!!! Enjoy
  
  
• Barbecue! Barbecue! Barbecue!
  By A3AM1VNSPSYASP on 2005-01-18
  This is your source for any kind of sauce, marinade, or rub you can think of! Steven Raichlen is not afraid of spices and heat so if you don't care for those, this is not the book for you. He has classic recipes as well as innovative ones.
  
  

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