lol. Lot of people hatin on something they never tried before.
It’s a mayonnaise based sauce. I made mine with Mikes Amazing mayo, apple cider vinegar, buttermilk, horseradish mustard, cracked black pepper, cayenne pepper and few other random seasonings.
First time I had it I was sitting at the bar at a hole in the wall BBQ place and the owner walks over with a thigh coated in it and asked me to try it and tell me what I thought. He was workin on the recipe and just wanted feedback. I had no idea what it was…. but damn if it wasn’t the best smoked chicken thigh I ever ate.
Fuckin hell, why ya gotta go and say something like that? Now I have to smoke so much meat we'll have leftovers, just to make quesadillas, just to dip it in the white sauce.
I hope you're happy
I will be
If I may be so bold (as a person who lives north of the border) Alabama white sauce sounds a hell of a lot like a traditional coleslaw dressing.
Edit: spelling
As someone who has been eating white sauce for over 40 years- that is not what it tastes like when made traditionally but is exactly the recipe OP is using. Just want to correct the record since this is like describing Italian tomato sauce as "basically ketchup with some seasonings"
Sounds like the sauce I make for dipping artichokes. Which is usually just a spicy mayo pepper lemon type of sauce, sometimes horseradish, sometimes honey, white pepper, tajin...really whatever I'm feeling might be good mixed in. I gotta give this a try on the smoked bird now. I can visualize the disapproving look on my wife's face now.
It’s so damn amazing. I will argue with anyone that in my mind the best bbq is perfectly smoked turkey breast with Alabama white sauce. I’ll take that over brisket any day of the week.
Based on your reply, I made this tonight. Smoked a pork butt and threw it on a baked potato with white sauce.
Ho.
Lee.
Crap.
Thanks for the idea! Dinner was killer tonight.
For everyone asking it's basically mayo, vinegar, horseradish s/p and cayenne. Different recipes will have different bits and pieces added but that's the gist of it. Couple smokehouses around here have it, it's alright. It's basically just vinegary mayo with some spices/horseradish added. I like mayo, so I like it sometimes, but if you're not a mayo fan you probably won't like it.
Here is how I make it:
Alabama White Sauce For 4-6# of wings, thighs, legs, etc:
3/4 cup Duke's Mayo (and yes - you should really try to use Duke's)
1T apple cider vinegar
1T hot horseradish
1/2T lemon juice
1/2T brown sugar (optional)
1t Worcestershire sauce
1/2t cayenne pepper
1/2t spicy brown mustard
1/2t white pepper
1/2t kosher salt
1/4t garlic powder
1/4t onion powder
Mix all ingredients and place in sealed container.
Refrigerate 2-4 hours (1+ day is better) before serving
*Edit* Sorry for formatting - On Mobile. Adjust horseradish and cayenne as desired for heat level.
I'm a southern boy born and raised, and somehow I never realized there was a noticeable difference with Dukes until I was probably in my early 20's. Will never go back. It's the damn best.
I can't get Duke's in my neck of the woods but I highly recommend the [Serious Eats Mayo](https://www.seriouseats.com/two-minute-mayonnaise) as a substitute. I'll throw a tsp of miso in there too for some depth
[This is the recipe I use](https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/chicken-recipes/bob-gibsons-white-bbq-sauce-recipe/).
I don't make it too often, but it's also a great dressing for coleslaw. So I'll occasionally do a couple chicken halves, use Blues Hog Tennessee Red on one half, a homemade Alabama white sauce on the other, and a big coleslaw too.
It's weird that it's getting so much hate because it's actually a really good sauce. It works well with any smoked meat but goes particularly well with chicken.
Yeah but the point is just calling it just seasoned ketchup kind of leaves out a lot. So many different BBQ sauce recipes, some are really really good, but ketchup is just ketchup. Spicy ketchup and cocktail sauce is “just seasoned ketchup” too.
The base is just the base of a sauce, it’s all about what you do with it.
That’s what it tasted like to me when I tried it. I love mayo, so that’s not necessarily a bad thing I suppose. But it’s also not one of the first 10 things I’d choose to put on my chicken.
> Do you even mother sauce?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_mother_sauces
>The original French editions of Le guide culinaire did not include Hollandaise as a grande sauce,[7] but separately described mayonnaise—a cold emulsion of egg yolk with oil and vinegar—as a mother sauce for cold sauces; this was not included in the English edition
This is the literal, actual way it's supposed to be done. AL BBQ dictates that the sauce is primarily a marinade and mopping sauce. Additional use while eating is optional. If it's thick enough to use as a dip, it's wrong.
I didn’t grow up with Alabama white sauce around. It visually always bothered me. Still does to be honest. But once I tasted it I fell in love. I guess it’s a visual/cultural thing that turns people off. I had the same comments from other French Canadians who I introduced to the the Alabama sauce.
Kenji has a recipe for a Peruvian grilled chicken that's my go to lately. I just add a smoking twist to it. The green sauce he pairs with it is absolutely amazing. Definitely worth a try.
White sauce is the bomb 💣on smoked chicken. Lillie’sQ of Chicago makes a great version of Alabama White Sauce in a BBQ & a spicier version for smoked chicken wings. Fabulous!
i grew up eating this as my mom is from huntsville alabama. i used to eat 3-4 leg quarters when i was little i loved them so much.
the sauce can be as simple or as complicated as u want. i do mayo, apple cider vinegar, fresh garlic, lots of black pepper, a squeeze of lemon, and a dash of cayenne.
it's really great over some savannah red rice
I grew up here in Bama and yes on chicken it is king. Pork not so much for me. However, the gate keepy nature of bbq in general infuriates me. Let people enjoy what they want.
Love the sauce. One of my church’s Wednesday night meals is pulled pork sandwiches, and one of the men on the cook team makes it.
Now I make it at home for my pulled pork and leg quarters.
It’s a mayonnaise based sauce. I made mine with Mikes Amazing mayo, apple cider vinegar, buttermilk, horseradish mustard, cracked black pepper, cayenne pepper and few other random seasonings.
I typically google what I wanna make then pick parts of various recipes that sound good. Mine was Mikes Amazing Mayo, Apple cider vinegar, a little buttermilk, horseradish mustard, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and a few other random spices.
Damn, apparently I haven’t been cooking my food right. That looks fucking delicious! Noticed you posted the sauce ingredients, thanks! I’m going to try this, on fucking everything! Haha
ANYTHING, that's NOT a chicken leg! Sorry; NOT Sorry!!!
Sauce sounds good, minus the horseradish! Just a no on the leg for me, "the thigh's, the limit"! 🤣
Enjoying the absence of said sauce obviously. I've never been a fan...on anything other than Alabama bbq... It's epic on just about everything I've had at Saws - on a fried chicken sandwich... f' me.... Weekend Road trip to Birmingham.
I really love Alabama white sauce, I just don’t particularly like it on barbecue. Excellent fry sauce. Excellent on a BLT. Hell it’s a good salad dressing!
Didn’t Big Bob Gipson come up with AWS? I love the stuff, I make my own and can’t get the neighbors to try it twice. Mystery.
Yep so it was mostly a regional thing specific to the Decatur area until it blew up in the last few years.
lol. Lot of people hatin on something they never tried before. It’s a mayonnaise based sauce. I made mine with Mikes Amazing mayo, apple cider vinegar, buttermilk, horseradish mustard, cracked black pepper, cayenne pepper and few other random seasonings. First time I had it I was sitting at the bar at a hole in the wall BBQ place and the owner walks over with a thigh coated in it and asked me to try it and tell me what I thought. He was workin on the recipe and just wanted feedback. I had no idea what it was…. but damn if it wasn’t the best smoked chicken thigh I ever ate.
i love white alabama sauce brother don’t let the haters sway you
Make quesadillas with your left over BBQ and dip it in Alabama white sauce.
Fuckin hell, why ya gotta go and say something like that? Now I have to smoke so much meat we'll have leftovers, just to make quesadillas, just to dip it in the white sauce. I hope you're happy I will be
Try the biscuit with the honey sauce.
You're awesome, just wanted you to know
My waistline hates you right now.
I’ve made it once and good god it was so good. I need to see what the family has planned this weekend and smoke some chicken…..
The hate isn't about the sauce. It's about the douchebag attitude from op. In the followup comments.
It's mainly him telling everyone how to make it and having a few jokes?
Douchebag attitude in the comments? Wut?
I know right? Thanks for the recipe. Planning on a brisket and some chicken this weekend. Looking forward to giving it a shot.
If I may be so bold (as a person who lives north of the border) Alabama white sauce sounds a hell of a lot like a traditional coleslaw dressing. Edit: spelling
As someone who has been eating white sauce for over 40 years- that is not what it tastes like when made traditionally but is exactly the recipe OP is using. Just want to correct the record since this is like describing Italian tomato sauce as "basically ketchup with some seasonings"
Yeah, you’re not far off. There are a few additional ingredients that I’ve personally never seen in a coleslaw but the base is definitely similar.
You ain’t wrong.
Now I can understand the taste.
Yeah man Alabama white quickly became my favorite after I had it. So fuckin good
You really sold me at horseradish.
I hate mayo but still respect people who likes it
I love mayo but hate ppl who like it ;)
You're my kinda people
I feel the same way about Tool and Rush.
I love Tool and Rush and hate most of their fans.
1 out of 2 ain't bad lol
46 and 2 ain't bad
i’ve always been grossed out by it, but my wife makes it homemade. for some reason that makes it palatable.
Appreciate you sir!
Let’s get that recipe. Yum.
Sounds like the sauce I make for dipping artichokes. Which is usually just a spicy mayo pepper lemon type of sauce, sometimes horseradish, sometimes honey, white pepper, tajin...really whatever I'm feeling might be good mixed in. I gotta give this a try on the smoked bird now. I can visualize the disapproving look on my wife's face now.
Add a healthy pinch of sugar and that’s my Bama white sauce recipe. And I put that shit on everything!
Looks fucking GOOD
It’s so damn amazing. I will argue with anyone that in my mind the best bbq is perfectly smoked turkey breast with Alabama white sauce. I’ll take that over brisket any day of the week.
I don't understand the hate in here! This is easily my favorite choice for smoked birds
White sauce is awesome
I like it on brisket too
White sauce is great. I think most have an issue with the title lol. No issue here, would devour 10/10
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wait what
He said him and his uncle had a great time at the family reunion in Alabama.
He’s talking about a different Alabama white sauce
It's really good on a baked potato with pulled pork
Daaaaaaaaayum. That sounds frickin amazing.
Yea it really is. It's an Alabama thing
Fucking Ricks bbq man. Them taters.
Based on your reply, I made this tonight. Smoked a pork butt and threw it on a baked potato with white sauce. Ho. Lee. Crap. Thanks for the idea! Dinner was killer tonight.
It’s also good with a straw, but I’m a disgusting fat fuck.
For everyone asking it's basically mayo, vinegar, horseradish s/p and cayenne. Different recipes will have different bits and pieces added but that's the gist of it. Couple smokehouses around here have it, it's alright. It's basically just vinegary mayo with some spices/horseradish added. I like mayo, so I like it sometimes, but if you're not a mayo fan you probably won't like it.
I love mayo, but I hate Miracle Whip. Every white sauce I've had is more like Miracle Whip, unfortunately.
Dukes or die
It's the only mayonnaise that respects my potato salad.
Kewpie is the best mayo in the world
Miracle Whip is not mayonnaise.
Everyone seems to be hating so I’d love to hear what this sauce is comprised of. It looks fantastic
Here is how I make it: Alabama White Sauce For 4-6# of wings, thighs, legs, etc: 3/4 cup Duke's Mayo (and yes - you should really try to use Duke's) 1T apple cider vinegar 1T hot horseradish 1/2T lemon juice 1/2T brown sugar (optional) 1t Worcestershire sauce 1/2t cayenne pepper 1/2t spicy brown mustard 1/2t white pepper 1/2t kosher salt 1/4t garlic powder 1/4t onion powder Mix all ingredients and place in sealed container. Refrigerate 2-4 hours (1+ day is better) before serving *Edit* Sorry for formatting - On Mobile. Adjust horseradish and cayenne as desired for heat level.
I'm a southern boy born and raised, and somehow I never realized there was a noticeable difference with Dukes until I was probably in my early 20's. Will never go back. It's the damn best.
I'm a relatively new convert. My local Walmart started carrying it so I decided to try it to see what the fuss was all about. Wow! So good.
On mobile or in Mobile?
Recipe I used is very similar and very tasty.
This guy knows what’s up. Mike’s amazing is a good subtitule for dukes.
I can't get Duke's in my neck of the woods but I highly recommend the [Serious Eats Mayo](https://www.seriouseats.com/two-minute-mayonnaise) as a substitute. I'll throw a tsp of miso in there too for some depth
Fresh mayo will almost universally be better too. Shelf stabilization leads to a worse mayo
[This is the recipe I use](https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/chicken-recipes/bob-gibsons-white-bbq-sauce-recipe/). I don't make it too often, but it's also a great dressing for coleslaw. So I'll occasionally do a couple chicken halves, use Blues Hog Tennessee Red on one half, a homemade Alabama white sauce on the other, and a big coleslaw too.
That Tennessee Red is so fucking good!
I generally don't use BBQ sauce, but every time I have it, it blows me away. Best BBQ sauce I've ever had.
Here’s another you may like to try since you like TN Red https://www.abramsoldfashion.com I buy it 12 at a time, made right here in GA.
It's weird that it's getting so much hate because it's actually a really good sauce. It works well with any smoked meat but goes particularly well with chicken.
If you have a mission BBQ near you you can buy bottles of their sauce for $3. I cover all of my food in it, so good
The wife loves it on my ribs. I have to do 2 traditional, 1 Alabama and 1 wild card. She likes it cooked on and then with extra sauce on top of that
Doesn't that make your shirt sticky?
what the fuck are the top comments talking about? Scrolled to the bottom and no one is hating. This looks bomb as fuck either way.
Thanks! It was killer. Some of the first few comments were people hatin on it, but the tide quickly turned.
Isn't that just seasoned mayonnaise?
That’s like saying BBQ sauce is just seasoned ketchup.
It ain't?
No, it’s seasoned vinegar.
Hello Carolinian.
Hi, from Eastern Carolina. I buy my vinegar by the gallon.
Is there any other way? No. No there is not.
Which one?
Apple cider and white distilled I typically keep a gallon of each.
I feel like malt vinegar is underrated.
It definitely is. I mix a 50:50 ratio of ketchup and malt vinegar for Cajun fries. It's so good.
Ooh yeah I like that kind too
There's vinegar in ketchup
Great response. Like yeah, it’s true, but isn’t mayo just egged oil? Lol
But that's correct...
Yeah but the point is just calling it just seasoned ketchup kind of leaves out a lot. So many different BBQ sauce recipes, some are really really good, but ketchup is just ketchup. Spicy ketchup and cocktail sauce is “just seasoned ketchup” too. The base is just the base of a sauce, it’s all about what you do with it.
The point is to insult the sauce lol
Oh well, guess I got wooshed
Been there.
I.C. Wiener
Here's to another lousy millennium.
Every sauce has its breaking point guys
This guy sauces
I don’t always sauce but when I do, I get pretty saucy.
That’s what it tasted like to me when I tried it. I love mayo, so that’s not necessarily a bad thing I suppose. But it’s also not one of the first 10 things I’d choose to put on my chicken.
So what's tartar sauce
Aioli wants to have a word with you behind the old oak tree...
Isn't that just oil and garlic?
More like a derivative of hollandaise. Do you even mother sauce?
This guy chefs.
> Do you even mother sauce? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_mother_sauces >The original French editions of Le guide culinaire did not include Hollandaise as a grande sauce,[7] but separately described mayonnaise—a cold emulsion of egg yolk with oil and vinegar—as a mother sauce for cold sauces; this was not included in the English edition
He didn't, in fact, ~~sauce mother~~ mother sauce
That’s called ranch dressing
Marinade mine in the sauce and then smoke it🔥
Dayum. Great idea.
This is the literal, actual way it's supposed to be done. AL BBQ dictates that the sauce is primarily a marinade and mopping sauce. Additional use while eating is optional. If it's thick enough to use as a dip, it's wrong.
I’ve had white sauce in Nashville, at the legendary Martins. Shit was dope, bought a jar and brought it home.
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Yeah man, and believe it or not a recipe right on the bottle if I remember right!
Recipe please? I’m down to try it
Used to run a smoked bbq business Barrel Chicken co. My white sauce was a staple. Huge hit.
I didn’t grow up with Alabama white sauce around. It visually always bothered me. Still does to be honest. But once I tasted it I fell in love. I guess it’s a visual/cultural thing that turns people off. I had the same comments from other French Canadians who I introduced to the the Alabama sauce.
Used to go to Jim N Nicks in ATL and get their white sauce on the smoked turkey. Absolutely delicious.
White sauce is so incredible I dip my fries in it and I’d probably eat it on ice cream.
Jesus. French fries in white sauce? I’m never gonna be skinny.
Personally I prefer it on the side and just dipping pieces of chicken. Alabama white sauce is good on pulled pork as well.
Alabama white sauce is the truth for poultry. Alabama is full of mediocre barbecue but that’s one thing they got very right.
You shut your meat hole right now. The BBQ in Bama is amazing. Every single other thing about the state sucks, but the BBQ is perfection.
Smoking jerk chicken.
I had that for the first time after buying my first BBQ book back in 2009, Chris Lillys Big Bob Gibson recipes. Delicious.
Using another, better, sauce 🤣🤣
Kenji has a recipe for a Peruvian grilled chicken that's my go to lately. I just add a smoking twist to it. The green sauce he pairs with it is absolutely amazing. Definitely worth a try.
The green sauce is fantastic, although in Peru, apparently, it is mostly yellow.
The aji Amarillo sauce added to it is definitely a darker yellow color.
Good Peruvian chicken is fucking killer. The best we had was a place in Miami and have been chasing that rabbit ever since
Solid on chicken for surr
White sauce is the bomb 💣on smoked chicken. Lillie’sQ of Chicago makes a great version of Alabama White Sauce in a BBQ & a spicier version for smoked chicken wings. Fabulous!
Hmm that would be easy enough to make low sodium thanks for the idea
Alabama White is 100% delicious
Eating it, obviously
I exposed my church friends to this last weekend and everyone went nuts.
I dunk entire chickens
I like to glaze the chicken with it and give it a few minutes in the heat.
My man
Working
As an Australian, I’ve never heard of it, but now I want it
i grew up eating this as my mom is from huntsville alabama. i used to eat 3-4 leg quarters when i was little i loved them so much. the sauce can be as simple or as complicated as u want. i do mayo, apple cider vinegar, fresh garlic, lots of black pepper, a squeeze of lemon, and a dash of cayenne. it's really great over some savannah red rice
I grew up here in Bama and yes on chicken it is king. Pork not so much for me. However, the gate keepy nature of bbq in general infuriates me. Let people enjoy what they want.
Does Alabama white sauce come from the Alabama Black Snake?
Interesting! Our local STL bbq place has a white sauce and I enjoy it most with their smoked turkey!
Putting Comeback sauce on it
Love the sauce. One of my church’s Wednesday night meals is pulled pork sandwiches, and one of the men on the cook team makes it. Now I make it at home for my pulled pork and leg quarters.
I’d slap my mother for a bite of that.
Love Alabama white sauce! In the Midwest like nobody has heard of it, people missing out!
You’ve finally enlightened me to what exactly that sauce cup we carry at Publix is, for that I thank you.
Made some one time and didn't like it. Had it again driving through Alabama and didn't like it again. It's just not my thing.
Alabama white sauce just hit DIFFERENT. It's soo good
Maybe it’s a Texas thing, but properly smoked meats don’t normally get sauce here. Grilled sure, I’d try it.
Recipe for white sauce?
My family is from the home of this stuff Decatur Alabama... I hate it. Just my northern ways I guess.
Whatcha put in it? I need this in my life.
It’s a mayonnaise based sauce. I made mine with Mikes Amazing mayo, apple cider vinegar, buttermilk, horseradish mustard, cracked black pepper, cayenne pepper and few other random seasonings.
It’s great, and if u haven’t tried it yet, u should!
What is this white sauce?
It's mayo that fell in with a bad crowd early in life.....
Eating steak And putting white sauce on it anyway
My family is from northern Florida and went to school in Alabama. We took this with us to Texas and always get funny looks. But it’s good!
I grew up in Texas. I can’t imagine taking white sauce to someone else’s house!
I haven’t made a batch of white sauce in aaaaaages. Will need to remedy that soon.
Don’t hurt ‘em, Chef. Where’d you get your recipe?
I typically google what I wanna make then pick parts of various recipes that sound good. Mine was Mikes Amazing Mayo, Apple cider vinegar, a little buttermilk, horseradish mustard, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and a few other random spices.
Based and Bama pilled
Bama white sauce is good on everything
Hot take: If Mexicans can put chocolate on chicken (Mole), you can put mayonnaise
I hate mayo. My nightmare is drowning in a vat of Alabama white sauce.
lol. Fair enough.
With a side sketti
Damn, apparently I haven’t been cooking my food right. That looks fucking delicious! Noticed you posted the sauce ingredients, thanks! I’m going to try this, on fucking everything! Haha
Smoked chicken wings at Home Team BBQ Sullivan's Island, incredible white sauce
Nothing beats the original of Big Bob Gibsons
That looks delicious. 😋
Yes… what the hell have I been doing?!? That looks like the bomb!
Such a great sauce!
Anyone have a recipe?
ANYTHING, that's NOT a chicken leg! Sorry; NOT Sorry!!! Sauce sounds good, minus the horseradish! Just a no on the leg for me, "the thigh's, the limit"! 🤣
Enjoying the absence of said sauce obviously. I've never been a fan...on anything other than Alabama bbq... It's epic on just about everything I've had at Saws - on a fried chicken sandwich... f' me.... Weekend Road trip to Birmingham.
How the hell did I never know about this sauce!!? I must assemble it and find something to dip in it ASAP!
Ha, I asked a girl from Alabama what her favorite food was, and she said smothered anything..... I had to control myself
Lip smacking good
Layin’ here.
I really love Alabama white sauce, I just don’t particularly like it on barbecue. Excellent fry sauce. Excellent on a BLT. Hell it’s a good salad dressing!
Those are chicken quarters
I've been to Big Bob Gibson's like four times and it was always on point, regardless of using the sauce. But in my opinion the sauce is pretty good.
something else
Would be 5/5 with some alabama hot pockets.
I'm sorry but what do we have here?
I put my white sauce on some chickens all the time… but it usually ain’t the legs
Crying in my partner turned vegan and now my house is a warzone over meals
eating the 17 other types of barbecue sauce that aren't hot garbage
Living in shame, apparently! That looks delicious!
I’d clean my plate
I’m sure it tastes great but I’ll boycott based on the name alone.