Con el pasar del tiempo y el cocinar de manera mas seguida, se hace mas fácil el resistir la tentación de adquirir cada nuevo sazón que sale al mercado. En otras palabras, uno conoce mejor el sabor que quiere que tengan las comidas y por ende somos mas selectivos a la hora de adquirir nuevos condimentos!
Tan reciente como noviembre del 2016 encontramos la marca Loot & Booty en la sección de “experimentación” de la tienda de BBQ que frecuento. Loot & Booty viene en tres formas: Everything Rub, What’s Your Beef, y Gold Star Chicken Rub. Los escribo en esta progresión ya que el sabor va en aumento de esa manera. El Everything Rub tiene un contenido de sal y especias que puede ser utilizado en cualquier situación. El diseñado para carnes tiene un buen aumento en las especias las cuales le dan un buen “heat” al finalizar. El de aves para mi es el mas intenso y rico. Pero la pregunta clave es como compara a otros que he utilizado por mucho tiempo?
Aprovechando un paquete de spare ribs que solo trajo dos, decidí probar Loot & Booty contra mi combinación preferida para costillas: Obie-Que’s Stakemaker y The Slab. Ambos le dieron un color similar a las costillas, un rojo profundo con áreas de caramelización. Y una vez le aplique la salsa y el glaseado lo único que las diferenciaba era el granulado de cada uno de los sazones. Todos los que probamos coincidimos en que las sazonadas con Loot & Booty What’s Your Beef tenían mejor sabor. En especial el final tienen una cantidad placentera de pique o calor. La misma es ínfima, ya que hasta las personas que le huyen al pique las encontraron placenteras y deliciosas!
As the time go by and I get to cook more, it is a lot easier to resist the temptation of buying every single rub and sauce that comes to market. In other words, we know the way we would like each food to taste so we can be more selective when evaluating buying new rubs/salsas. So if a rub does not rock my taste buds when trying them dry, do not end up coming home after BBQ class.
Back in November 2016 I found the Loot & Booty brand in the “under consideration” shelf of my local BBQ shop. My initial sampling was an instant hit that made me ask to buy the three samples even though they were already open! Loot & Booty have three rubs: Everything Rub, What’s Your Beef, and Gold Star Chicken Rub. The Everything rub has great flavor but very little heat. It has a good amount of salt so you do not have to layer the rub. The What’s Your Beef has a nice lingering level of heat. The chicken rub is the best in my opinion. It is an explosion of flavor in your mouth!
The key questions was how would it hold up against some other rubs that I have used for a long time with great results. Having the surprise of opening a pack of spare ribs that only brought two pieces instead of three, I decided to turn this cookout into a flavor test. My control piece was seasoned using Obie-Que’s Stakemaker as a base and The Slab for color and accent. This has been my go-to rib combination for the past three years. The other slab was season using Loot & Booty What’s Your Beef. Both pieces were cooked the same way in the pellet smoker (2.5 hrs uncovered and 1 hr rapped) and finished the same way. Both slabs ended up with the same color and texture, so the only differentiation you could make was the granulation of the rubs. But the big difference was in the taste. Everybody agreed that the ribs seasoned with Loot & Booty had a better taste. Even the people that is heat averse found them delicious.
