Best rubs for smoking meats

Most often I make my own. But it depends on the meat; brisket and pork butt I often just use course pepper & salt. Chicken or ribs I mix my own.

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Meat Church
Killer Hogs
Kosmo Q
Postal BBQ


I rotate through various rubs through those 4. I usually add coarse ground pepper and kosher salt after those rubs for a heartier bark.

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This here when I use a store bought rub.

Otherwise, I make my own. Brown sugar base and build from there depending on the protein. (Brisket is kosher salt and coarse ground black pepper--no sugar). I buy my spices from the bulk section at Central Market here in FW and that makes it super, super cheap. And easy.

I make my own. I've had some success with this on ribs and pork butts:

Coarse salt
Ground black pepper
Smoked Sweet Paprika
Turbinado sugar
Brown Sugar
Onion Powder
Garlic Powder
Cayenne Pepper

I have a first cousin in Dallas Texas that swears by Kosmos Q rubs and seasonings.

Kosmos Q

Cow: Salt Lick Garlic dry rub
Pig: Pass A Lick Kajun Seasoning
Chicken: Nunu’s or “Now It’s Cajun” Seasoning, either thrown on after rubbing wet mustard on the bird

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Most often I make my own. But it depends on the meat; brisket and pork butt I often just use course pepper & salt. Chicken or ribs I mix my own.

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This is pretty much me except i use a full rub for pork butt, which i make myself. It's a variation of meatheads Memphis dust

Oak Ridge has a lot of good stuff. Their Black Ops brisket rub is killer. I'm on Heath Riles' stuff right now. Garlic Jalapeño is a good base rub for just about anything, Pecan rub is killer, Peach rub is probably my favorite right now on ribs.

Go to BBQ Superstore and find everything you need...and I mean everything.

I keep this in a Mason jar to use on ribs and chicken:

Meathead’s Memphis Dust
Amazing Ribs

Ingredients

3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup paprika
1/4 cup kosher salt
1/4 cup garlic powder
2 tablespoons ground black pepper
2 tablespoons ground ginger powder
2 tablespoons onion powder
2 teaspoons rosemary powder

Optional. Add up to 2 tablespoons crushed dried chipotle, cayenne, chili powder, or other hot pepper.

For pork butt, I use Chris Lilly's recipe (makes enough for two butts):

1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup paprika
1/3 cup garlic salt
1/3 cup kosher salt
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon oregano leaves
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon black pepper

Brisket gets Kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper, maybe a little cumin.

If you buy the chili powder, garlic powder, etc. at Sam's, it is dirt cheap compared to the little grocery store spice bottles/cans.

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My favorite

Big fan of Yard Bird and Bovine Bold, both from Plowboys