Kansas City-Style Barbecue Sauce

When most people think of barbecue sauce, they're picturing a thick, sweet, and tangy tomato mixture—that's Kansas City style. It works great on everything from ribs to chicken to beans, or it can be a dip or a baste.

Easy All-Purpose Barbecue Sauce

You'll want to make big batches of this all-purpose barbecue sauce—it's great on a wide variety of barbecued and grilled foods, like ribs, chicken, or burgers.

Bacon Bourbon Barbecue Sauce

Smoky, tangy, and beautifully-glossy, Bacon Bourbon Barbecue Sauce is a delicious accompaniment to a variety of grilled dishes. It's easy to prepare, too!

Balsamic Barbecue Sauce

The tang and robust flavor of balsamic vinegar dominates, but also finds a nice balance with barbecue sauce standards like ketchup, honey, mustard, and molasses.

Memphis-Style Barbecue Sauce

This "Memphis-style" is my favorite to make at home—it takes the aspects of sweet tomato-based sauces I grew up on, but by dialing back the sugar and amping up the vinegar, creates a sauce where seasonings and spice are more defined and achieves a pleasing balance between the main defining aspects of a barbecue sauce.

Buffalo Barbecue Sauce

Why relegate Buffalo sauce to chicken wings? Make your own Buffalo wing-inspired barbecue sauce that's a great topping for smoked chicken or pulled pork.

Stout Barbecue Sauce

Winter is a call for us to beef up the heartiness of just about everything. Though I'm not normally a huge fan of stout beers, when the frigid cold has set in, there's something appealing to drinking what feels like a meal in a bottle. I wanted to take that appropriate seasonal heaviness and apply it to a barbecue sauce. So I married the two to create a stout barbecue sauce.

Cherry Barbecue Sauce

You can call cherry a "secret" ingredient to this barbecue sauce. It adds a deep fruitiness that gets well embedded in the sauce. The cherries are paired with ancho chili powder, which gives an earthy spice.

Quick Korean Flavored Barbecue Sauce

A mere few minutes of work and minimal ingredients can turn a rather ho-hum bottled barbecue sauce into serious eats.

Eastern North Carolina Vinegar-and-Pepper Barbecue Sauce

One of the classics of American barbecue sauce, and a favorite on pulled pork in particular, this vinegary sauce is big on spicy-tart flavor.