Posted on 06/29/2020 12:34:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Real PIT BBQ is food cooked in a LARGE/DEEP hole in the ground & SLOWLY cooked over hardwood coals (usually) overnight to as much as 24 hours.
Cooked that way, even the toughest (which generally are the most flavorful cuts) of beef become fork-tender & whole pigs become “falling off the bone” tender, too..
I will NOT get into the argument of beef or pork, as I like both.
Yours, TMN78247
The narrator completely glosses over just what makes barbecue, barbecue. It’s a noun. The pit cooking method came to the earliest English settlers in Tidewater Virginia via the local and regional tribes. Pork, beef, whatever it’s all good if well prepared but pork being the ideal frontier livestock is absolutely true and so, love it or hate it, Carolina style barbecue pork is the progenitor of them all. The sauce is even comparable to Elizabethan “catsup” which was vinegar with herbs and spices.
Had it several styles on how it was cooked.
I am not a very good cook but it is pretty easy to grill any meat. I have a Son-in-Law who is a wizard on the grill. He goes to a lot of trouble tho.
Yes, let’s not ‘cake vs pie’ this thing. Unless someone completely annihilates whatever meat they’re grilling or smoking, it’s going to be pretty good.
As for sauces, of course everyone has their preference. NC has more sauces than just a vinegar dip/base.
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I’d give my chicken breasts too. Definitely the lesser part of a chicken. Dark meat rules.
Come on, RB, we’re in North Carolina, we both know that “cult” is a pretty accurate word to describe the great Tomato vs. Vinegar debate. (With the South Carolina mustard-based apostates occasionally chiming in.)
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True, but it’s the mayonnaise heretics that must expect the Spanish Inquisition.
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First post out of the gate and it’s 100 percent wrong. ENC style PORK barbecue was the original in this country and the only one deserving of the name. The rest are smoked and grilled X. Some fantastic variations out there. Enjoy them all. But don’t be a hater just because we are the original.
That NC Vinegar sauce tastes makes the meat taste like it was dipped in used vinegar douche.
You’ve eaten a used douche?
Haven’t we all?
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