Ways to Use Wet Rubs on Your Meat

Using rubs on the meat that you are going to barbecue (or grill) will greatly enhance the flavor of your food. Simply put, by utilizing this technique you can so greatly increase the flavor and taste of what you are grilling outdoors that your neighbors or friends will think that you are a professional chef. Ha! We won't let the little bird out of the cage. Our secret is safe here. But let's discuss some of these rubs and how they affect what we barbecue.

Using a good rub can really make a difference in how your food comes out. Sure you can use BBQ sauce, but a lot of times BBQ is just used to cover up inferiority, whether it be inferiority in the food, the way it was prepared, or in the cook himself.

Whoa, don't go there. Rubs are great to use, but balance is the key. We do not want to be overpowering in any one area. This would be such as in heat. Well, we like chili powder and heat so let's throw in a whole can of chili powder. Or, I have a sweet tooth so let's put in a pound of brown sugar. It does not work quite like that.

Now since a dry rub and a wet rub is the same. They are the same ingredients, what makes them different is how you apply them. for a wet rub, we will usually moisten the meat that we are going to grill and then add our dry rub to that and rub it all in. This will almost make a paste out of what we did. What we use for the wet part is entirely up to us. In the restaurant industry many times when I would do chicken, I would first start out with some ranch dressing. This would moisten the chicken real well and then my rub would stick to the chicken really well.

For thick cuts of meat we would usually leave the rub, or sometimes called a marinade, on for between 4 to 6 hours. Now if it is really big, say like a beef brisket, then overnight is actually better for the (what I call it) "marriage of flavors."

One of the advantages of using a wet rub is that it will stick to the meat better and stay on better also. Then there is also the advantage that the meat will stay more moist as you grill it. Using wet rubs keeps everything from drying out while cooking. This is really important for us outdoor cooks to know. In using dry rubs or wet rubs on our meat, just remember that balance is the key to everything. And always remember all the tips that we have for you at our newsletter which you can sign up for free.

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