The Story Of Wood Chips

I'd like to take a few minutes and talk about the different types of smoking wood chips. We carry MR. BBQ wood chips in our store.

• Alder is commonly used with fish, but you can also use it for beef and pork. It's light and has a slight sweetness to it. It provides a delicate flavor to your food.
• Apple has a light, fruity and sweet aroma. To be used with pork and poultry for best results.
• Cherry slight red color and subtle sweet fruity flavor. Can be used with beef, pork or poultry.
• Hickory strong flavor are the norm for this smoking wood. It complements all meats. Easily the most popular smoke wood used in BBQ
• Mesquite Often burned down to coals before being used as heat source. It strong smoke wood and can easily over power your food. It can be used with beef, pork, poultry and seafood.
• Pecan spicy and nutty is the way the flavor of pecan can be described. Great with pork, beef or poultry.

You can always mix and match the woods to create even more flavor. The best combo are:

• Apple + Cherry
• Apple + Hickory
• Cherry + Pecan
• Cherry + Mesquite
• Apple + Cherry + Pecan

Soak your wood chips in water at least a few hour prior to using if not overnight. What I like to do at this point is add other flavor to the wood chips. Instead of using just plain water you can use whiskey, apple juice, hot sauce and other liquids let your imagination run wild.


Keep in mind, you could use too many wood chips in your BBQ and overpower you meat. Depending on what you are cooking, I would start with half a bag of wood chips and then add to it as necessary.


As always to enhance your food even more you should give Big Tony's Seasonings at try.


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What should I eat, a burger, a hot dog or a chicken breast?

Some prefer hot dogs while others prefer hamburger. The more sophisticated of the bunch want chicken. When you are at a barbeque, and not trying to pick up on women, you want to have a good piece of meat. Depending on your mood, you may even go with two types of meat just to be safe. The debate is a lengthy one, but it still begs the question. “Which is better?”

 

A hot dog is traditional and reminds us all of the time we went to the ball park with our dads and getting a hot dog which we later regurgitated due to the massive size of it. We have a memory that makes it great. A hamburger is going to bring us back to the days when we were young and hamburgers were the best around. A piece of chicken is going to remind us of our mom’s home cooking. Whatever you pallet is saying, you’re going to have to go with. However, you don’t want to choose unwisely. If you do, you are going to regret it later.

 

Whenever we are at a barbecue, we struggle to know which is best. Pay attention to the person on the grill. If he doesn’t season the hamburger or the chicken to your preference, you are going to have to go with the hot dog. You know you are always going to win with a hot dog. If the person on the grill seasons the meats to perfection, you have to choose on the messy factor. If there are forks and knives, you have nothing to fear about the chicken, but if there are none, your best bet is to go with the hamburger. There are many factors when choosing the best meat for your pallet. It all goes to show that if you are in the mood for it, go for it.

As long as they are using Big Tony's Seasonings on the hamburger or chicken that's what, I would eat.

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Grilling in the summer is pure heaven

As a grill master, I pride myself on my meat. Whenever I have the chance I take out the grill, have some friends and family over, and enjoy cooking an assortment of meats. Although grilling is not for everyone, just talk to my cousin Mike. He once grilled a piece of hamburger meat so bad it looked darker than Snooki’s tan! However, there are tricks to it and you eventually will learn them. However, to properly grill, you need to be outside where it is nice and hot.

 

Grilling in the summer is heaven because you have the sun beating down on your skin as you pray that you wore enough SPF 35. You can watch the children run around with a stick praying that they don’t trip and you will have to spend the day in the emergency room. You always have that one friend that wants to brag about how much better of a grill master he is and you simply want to throw the spatula at him and have him cook your meats. All of these add up to the perfect time in the summer because in the end, the best thing about summer is having that cold beer.

 

Grilling takes skill and you have to make sure that the meat is perfect. If you have learned how to cook your meat properly, you are in the running to becoming a grill master to your family. Make sure that the heat is not on too high otherwise you are going to cook it too quickly and they will turn out dry as a bone. You want just the right amount of heat to bring out the juices. You don’t need a fancy grill to cook your meat the right way. With the proper technique, anyone can grill to perfection.

Just a little musing on my favorite subject, grilling in the summer.

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Grilling Tips From Around The Web

With spring finally here, I gathered some tips about grilling from around the web and wanted to share the links with you.


How to cook the perfect steak from Live Science


Top 10 steak buying tips from The Reluctant Gourmet


Using wood chips to add flavor from The Grilling Spot


How to grill Salmon on a cedar plank from The Kitchen


Injecting marinades from Nibble Me This


Grill Reviews from Grill 2 Day


These are tips from trusted sources, so please check them out. Grilling and BBQ is a ever learning art form. So you have to continue to educate yourself.


And as always seasoning blends, dry rubs, marinades and sauces. Big Tony's is the spot.
On your next purchase please use coupon code: promo1 for 30% off your purchase of $25 or more. The way that cost of meat has went up, every penny counts.


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New Additions to the Big Tony's Family

Big Tony is pleased and excited to announce that we have launched numerous new product line. You can check them out at www.shop.bigtonysseasonings.com


We now have 6 flavor intensive  BBQ sauces. One of which is made with real hickory smoked bacon. For the bacon lover, this is a dream come true.


2 seafood sauces, One is based on ginger and lime, which effortlessly coexist, to bring unbelievably flavors to any kind of seafood.


A raspberry mustard, a truly unique twist on that classic yellow condiment. We have a couple of other mustard's if raspberry is not your cup of tea.


Over 15 types of marinades, you can use them the old finished way or you can inject them. We marinades for every cut of beef, pork, lamb, chicken and seafood. We even have one that is based on our hometown of Detroit. If you are only going to try one I'd recommend the Tequila Fajita Marinade, made with real tequila. Its a party that wont stop.


Stuffed olives and pickled veggies, you can't BBQ or grill without snacks, and what's better then those two.


Blood Mary Mixes, well if you have stuffed olives and pickled veggies, might as well make yourself a cocktail.


We are always thinking of what we can add next, and I'm in the shed tinkering on with new recipes. So check back often or sign up for our newsletter. For updates and coupons,


Thanks for reading my blog


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Big Tony's Hot Sauces

If you are looking for a sauce that is going to live up to its name, you are going to want to have Big Tony Hot Sauce with you when you are cooking. With the right amount of hot blends, the care that has been taken into creating this masterpiece was a painstaking quest. Some of the Big Tony Hot Sauces are:

 

• Big T’s Stock Hot Sauce – The traditional cayenne based hot sauce that lives up to its traditions.
• Spirit of San Antonio Habanero – Crushed pepper sauce that is mixed with a fresh ripe red habanero to add to the heat.  
• Ladder #78 Habanero – With the surprise blend of naga jolokia peper, this sauce has roots to the original habanero.
• Above the Flame Garlic Infused Habanero – With the right amount of pepper sauce and a lot of garlic, this is for the garlic lovers.  
• Nightwalker XXX Habanero – Similar to the Ladder #78, but with a kick. Garlic is added and brings the flavors together nicely.
• TNT Mango Hot Sauce – A taste of the Caribbean with the flavor of mangos and habanero peppers.  
• Jacks Jumping Jalapeno Hot Sauce – Mixed with jalapenos and onion, lemon juice, passion fruit and garlic, this packs a killer flavor.  
• Sothern Smoking Savina Sauce – A nice blend of naga jolokia peper, Red Savina, Onion, Lemon Juice, Passion Fruit and Garlic, the sauce is great.
• Crazy Cousin Chipotle – This hot sauce is going to bring smokiness to the flavor.  
• 3-R Habanero and Garlic – With a blend of roasted peppers, this is going to put hair on your chest.
• Crazy Chili Nightmare – Extremely hot and packed with the extreme sauces, this sauce lives up to its name.

 

You can’t go wrong with the sauces that Big Tony Hot Sauce is going to give you. In the end, you are going to only have to spend less than $4 for one sauce.

Cooking With Big Tony'[s Seasoning

With all the great spice blends Big Tony offers, they go with every cut of meat, poultry and fish. When you want a nice seasoned steak, it is hard to find one that is going to live up to your expectations. With Big Tony Seasonings, you are not going to ever have a cut of meat which you weren’t completely satisfied with.

 

There are a lot of seasonings that you can choose from when you decide to try Big Tony Seasoning. Once they hit your cut of meat, chicken, or fish, you aren’t ever going to want to have another spice added to your meal. The seasonings are:

 

• Stampede City Steak Seasoning – With Garlic, Black Pepper, and Sea Salt, this seasoning is going to be perfect for grilling.
• The Leaning Tower of Seasoning – Packed with Italian Herbs, this blend is going to be your favorite too.
• Baton Rouge In A Bottle – Mixed with Cayenne, Garlic, and other Bayou spices, this is going to transport you to the Bayou of New Orleans.
• Flavors of El Paso – With the taste of the southwest, this seasoning is mixed with Chili, Cumin, and crushed Red Pepper.
• Get Lost in the Bermuda Triangle Jerk – This blend hosts Nutmeg, Ginger, Cloves along with 10 other spices to give you the taste of the Caribbean.
• Big T’s Don’t Leave Home Without It – A sea salt, paprika and more spice blend that is great with everything and for everyone.
• Across the Pond Seafood – Infused with white pepper, marjoram, and dry mustard, this seasoning is for the sophisticated pallet.
• Hen House Chicken – Rosemary, Sage and Black Pepper  allow the chicken to feel like part of the team.
• Big T’s From a Different Planet – With a mixture of Garlic, Cumin, Paprika, and Chili to start with, this seasoning is going to taste like one you have never tried before.

 

Each of Big Tony seasoning is under $5 and is a great buy if you want to have some of the best cuts of meat, chicken, or fish that you have had.

The truth about BBQ sauce

Barbecue sauces have a uniquely Southern and Western U.S. history.  Most experts agree that the practice of adding sauce and spices to meat and fish began early in our history, with Native Americans teaching the art to early European settlers.  The natives probably developed the process as part of an attempt to keep meats and fish from spoiling quickly.  Salt played a major role in those early barbecue sauces, and salt is a well-known preservative in the meat curing process.

Because the nation’s first European arrivals lived on the East Coast of America, that part of the country is credited with spawning the original barbecue sauce styles.  First and foremost, there are the various Carolina barbecue sauces.  The most widely known are East Carolina, Piedmont, and South Carolina varieties.  East Carolina barbecue sauce consists of vinegar, salt, black pepper, and crushed or ground cayenne peppers.  It’s a very simple sauce that penetrates the meat nicely for a deep flavor.  Piedmont barbecue sauce only varies from East Carolina in that it often includes molasses or Worcestershire sauce and thus clings to the meat more.  South Carolina sauce is entirely different, using a mustard base instead, producing a much tangier and sharp flavor.

Then there is Memphis or Southern style barbecue sauce.  This popular variety is typically more complicated (flavor-wise) and is built around mustard, tomato, and vinegar.  Fans often point to the boldness of these flavor combinations as the hallmark of Memphis barbecue sauce.  A saying often heard among hungry connoisseurs is no two bites alike.

Continuing our trek westward, we come to the acknowledged center of the barbecue universe Kansas City!  Kansas City barbecue sauce is distinguished by its noticeably thicker consistency and emphasis on sweetness.  Thats because this style of sauce is built upon thick tomato sauce, chunks of vegetables, and lots of sugar.  Many popular commercial brands are based on this Kansas City recipe.  It’s most popular among amateur backyard grillers because of the availability in grocery stores (Kraft, Heinz, K.C.s Masterpiece, etc.).  And also because the thick sauce can be applied only once and enough will remain in place to please the happy recipients of the grilled meat.

Finally, there are the ‘Texas’ barbecue sauce styles.  Now, Texas is one big state, and there are several regional varieties within it.  The most common include thick and spicy sauces that are essentially spicier variations on the Kansas City sauces.  These are found mostly in the north and east sections of the state (Dallas).  In western Texas, thinner sauces that feature hot peppers can be found.  These sauces are often added only at the very end of the barbecuing or grilling process.  And then, in southern Texas, the barbecue sauce of choice features an emphasis on Mexican spices and, of course, jalapeno peppers!  Make sure to have a cold beverage handy to put out the fire!

Or you can forget about using sauce at all and just use BigTony’s BBQ Rubs, that way it’s not messy.

Anyways, I thought I’d share some knowledge about BBQ sauce.

Have Fun

Big Tony

Easy Way To BBQ

If you are grilling BBQ ribs on a regular charcoal grill, then you’re probably frustrated when you find that your ribs are tough instead of “meat falling off the bones” tender. If this is the case, then you can learn how to barbeque perfect ribs easily by preparing your ribs properly in advance, before you ever place them on your grill.

Most master grillers prepare their ribs first, before cooking them on a charcoal grill. This is why some grillers cook perfect ribs every time. Usually at a BBQ event, guests see the cook placing the ribs on the grill, never knowing that work was done beforehand to get the ribs ready. Those new to grilling assume that the cook is just brushing sauce on the ribs, and then cooking them until done directly on the grill and this isn’t always so.

To prepare your ribs, first bring a large pot of water to a boil. You should do this the day before your BBQ event or dinner. Add a bit of salt to the water, and then bring it down to a simmer. Add your ribs, cover and simmer them for 1 to 2 hours and then carefully remove them from the pot. Your ribs should be tender and juicy now, but you shouldn’t place them on the grill just yet.

Place them in a large bowl, use any of the 3 Big Tony’s BBQ Rubs, cover and refrigerate overnight. This provides ample time for the ribs to soak the rub in, to produce that rich BBQ flavor that everyone loves so well.

The next day, light your grill and let the coals die down to warm glowing embers. You should never BBQ your ribs over an open flame; this can burn the sauce and ruin the flavor of your BBQ ribs.

Once the flames have died down, brush some more sauce on your ribs and place them directly on the grill. Cook for 10 minutes, brush some more sauce on the top of the ribs, turn and cook the other side for 10 minutes. Continue cooking the ribs in this fashion until they are fully done, turning your BBQ ribs every 10 minutes while adding fresh sauce at every turn.

Once your ribs are done, place them on a serving platter and serve while they are still hot. Your guests will go crazy over your delicious, juicy and tender ribs. This is the proper way to cook perfect BBQ ribs. If you just throw the ribs on a grill, without preparing them first, then your ribs will be very tough and not very good no matter what type of sauce is used.

BBQ sauce is used to add flavor, not to cover up inferior cooking. Don’t you owe it to yourself and to your dinner guests to go that extra mile, ensuring that your ribs are not only tasty, but also mouth watering tender? You’ll be known as the best BBQ rib griller in your area. Especially if you combine your juicy and tender ribs with Big Tony’s BBQ Rubs.


Have Fun, Making you the neighborhoods #1 BBQ Guy


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Check out this post below about the benefits of combining bourbon with Big Tony' Seasoning.


 http://www.greatcocktailrecipes.net/2014/04/add-crazy-kick-to-your-barbecue-and.html

About US

Big Tony’s Seasonings was created by Tony. A mid-30s young man with an exceptional ability in mixing spices and meat grills. Tony learned how to mix spices from his backwoods grandpa and with great vision and incredible faith in his ability, Tony became a mastermind in meat grills and spice mixes. Tony’s seasoning ability has created so many spectacular meal experiences and blessed so many people’s taste buds with great meal memories, that he was given the nickname BIG TONY.

Big Tony’s seasonings create flavors for the foods people love to eat and memories they want to keep because BIG TONY understands the importance of food and everything about it. Big Tony seasonings give your Taste-buds the impeccable tasting experience with an amazingly satisfying impact on your stomach. Experience the best and Use Big Tony Seasonings today.