The Best Grocery Brand BBQ Sauce Is Next-Level Smoky And Tangy - Tasting Table

Private Selection Texas Smokehouse BBQ Sauce avoids excessive sweetness and adds strong smoky flavor. The sauce is a Kroger in-store label product priced at $4.49 per bottle. It ranked first among eighteen grocery brand BBQ sauces in a taste test. Its standout flavor includes notes of brisket burnt ends, along with prominent smoky character, balanced tanginess, and spice. The sauce provides meaty, smoky complexity that suits rib recipes and pit-cooked beef. A reviewer on Kroger’s website praised it as the only BBQ sauce they use and described making BBQ chicken immediately after tasting it.

"In the search for a store-bought BBQ sauce that will do your recipes justice, two of the biggest pitfalls are excessive sweetness and a dearth of smoky flavor. So many brands make up for a lack of complexity by piling on the sugar or honey, leaving your meaty entrees tasting more like dessert. But when we tried and ranked grocery brand BBQ sauces, we found one shining product that shakes up the status quo: Private Selection Texas Smokehouse BBQ Sauce, which won first place for its potent dose of smoky, tangy, savory, and sweet goodness."

"Private Selection is one of Kroger's in-store labels, and its Texas Smokehouse sauce costs $4.49 per bottle, but we bet it could go head-to-head with any expensive craft condiment. After all, it beat seventeen other store-brand products to win our taste test. The most unique aspect of this not-too-sweet sauce are its notes of brisket burnt ends, which our tester definitely picked up on. It also lives up to its Texas Smokehouse moniker with prevalent smoky notes, rounded out by a balance of tanginess and spice."

"Our taste tester noted that Private Selection Texas Smokehouse had the richest flavor of all our sampled sauces, which put it ahead of products that were plenty delicious, but not as complex. It turns out that other Kroger shoppers can't get enough of this outstanding sauce, either. Private Selection Texas Smokehouse BBQ Sauce is a versatile winner for your saucy recipes."

"Reviewers on Kroger's website gush about the Private Selection Texas Smokehouse BBQ Sauce, with one shopper saying it's the only BBQ sauce they'll use. "I tasted a bit out [of] the bottle and immediately made BBQ chicken that very night!!!" they wrote. This sauce would indeed be amazing on a traditional or oven-baked BBQ chicken recipe, adding smoky complexity and"

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