Open Pit Barbecue Sauce Review (2/5)
When I was growing up in Hudson MA, there was short time right after we got a huge-ass freezer in the basement that we’d get shipments of food delivered to us in bulk for the purposes of stocking MEGA FREEZER. It was called Hill Food Service and I forget if my parents saved money on it or not, but it was a fun process. On a monthly basis, the six of us would sit at the dinner table and each get to pick some items from a giant print out. At that time (I was only about 10 years old), I was more focused on sugary cereals – so what I really wanted was Cocoa Puffs (for the free Ovaltine packets) to stock our huge ass pantry. At the same time, there was a large sale on … you guessed it… Open Pit Barbecue Sauce. A lot of it. So, I may be rating this a little more harshly because we had to go through about 100 bottles of this crap in a bottle.
Taste
Tangy and sweet. To me it just doesn’t taste like a BBQ sauce should. It’s got the most bizarre, unnatural smell and the flavor is more like French dressing than BBQ sauce. It goes on anything… meaning that you can add this to just about anything (pork, chicken, ribs, burgers, seafood) and it will be sure to ruin it. Trust me, we went through a lot of this stuff.
Texture
Unnaturally smooth and somewhat on the watery side. Clings well to meat – probably due to a chemically produced reaction/effect from the titanium dioxide mixing with the hydrolyzed corn and soy protein. Yum.
Ingredients
High fructose corn syrup, water, distilled vinegar, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), salt, modified food starch, contains less than 2% of: soybean oil, hydrolyzed corn and soy protein, spice, onion powder, dehydrated garlic, artificial tomato flavor, natural and artificial flavor, colored with (yellow 6, red 40, blue 1, titanium dioxide), caramel color
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I grew up enjoying the Open Pit bar-be-que sauses. For an inexpensive bar-be-que sause, I found the flavor rich and the tecture great. My favorites were the hickory smoked, regular and the hot and spicey/zesty. Over the years the flavor and quality has significantly deminished. Instead of having a rich good flavor it taste more like flavored grease. I am very disappointed. I guess you have started using flavor substitues. Go back to the old Open Pit. I remember the commercials with the black man saying “making my cooking proud”. I bet he will not say that now.
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I am obsessed with this sauce. The grocery store is packed with sweet and smokey BBQ sauces….this one is different. Its tangy. It is a little spicy and has a vinegar base rather than sugar. Its a product I have always loved and now its no longer available in the supermarket, so I must be the only one who appreciates it:(
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Liz is spot on. I love this stuff. If you like smokey BBQ, this is not for you. It is different, tangy is a great description.
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I disagree with the reviewer on this one. This has long been my favorite sauce. I like my BBQ to get it’s Smokey flavor from the Smoker, not from artificial flavors in the sauce. Open pit has a smooth tangy flavor that caramelizes well on the meat. I use it on chicken, pork and ribs and my family loves it.
As Liz said it so difficult to find in supermarkets, but I have been fortunate. A local restaurant food distributor sells it and I now buy it by the gallon, which is good since we go through a lot of it.
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