BBQ Sauce - South Carolina Style with Chef Rodney Scott

Did you know your BBQ Sauce preference says a lot about where you come from? If you call a place like South Carolina home, your taste in sauce can be a clue to your hometown. BBQ expert and award-winning Chef Rodney Scott helps break down the regions and flavors in this episode.
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Welcome to NOURISH with rocket scientist and whole hog barbecue pit master, Dr. Howard Conyers! Think of this show as food for your mind, body and soul.

Host and Co-Producer: Dr. Howard Conyers Writer and Co-Producer: Christina Melton
Director and Post Production Supervisor:
Donald "DRay!" Washington
Videographer: Bennie Robertson
Graphics: Ryan Golden
Original Music: Brass-a-holics from New Orleans, LA
The Michael Foster Project from Baton Rouge, LA
Produced by PBS Digital Studios and Louisiana Public Broadcasting

Made possible with funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting

[jmsfaith]

I’ve known Rodney and his amazing family sense I was a small child. I’m in my 60s now. They are a southern treasure. May God continue to bless them.🙏🏾

[bpp]

This video is a treasure find for me. I'm of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, a northern boy who loves smoking pork butts and ribs for myself and family parties and picnics. I appreciate the regional sauces you all provided the origin and knowledge for.
Dr C and Rodney you both are living history. Thank you.

[psymentor]

My mom was from South Carolina and when I was a kid she used to make that mustard sauce and put it on chicken, but back then, just the smell of mustard made me want to puke. She'd get me a jar of some store bought sauce so I could eat.

Then, as I got older my taste buds changed and I came to love that mustard based sauce. When I lived in LA, I used to swap foods with this Mexican family from Puebla and one time I sent a chicken over that I smoked in a converted fridge that I kept in my little patio area. The girl who took the chicken back to her family told me her dad absolutely loved that sauce, so I made him a big bottle of it. Later, that girl and my mom became friends and used to talk over Facebook.

Mom died over a year ago and this segment just caused a rush of memories. Food is timeless and universal and it really has a way of being a conduit through which so many other of the more beautiful aspects of our humanity travel, by which we come to understand our interconnectedness.
A jar of sauce...
Love you, mom.

Thanks, fellas.

[amberonskja]

White bread!!!! The most important accompaniment. This show reminded me of my grandfather so much. He would BBQ only a few times of the year. The sauce was kept in a big glass jug under the kitchen sink (yes with the soap and other cleaners). He would start around 3 AM and we would eat about 2 PM. We would eat, he would not. I think by the time he was done over the pit (our BBQ was made in those real oil grills, when they were made by a friend of a friend who was a welder) he just wasn't hungry. It was hot work and took forever but anyone who at his BBQ said it was the best ever. It was pork most of the time and he used a mop for sure but he had that Louisiana creole touch on it :). Thank you for the memories!

[memphisflyer]

I'll say it until I'm dead, Rodney Scott is an absolute treasure. His whole story.

[haywoodjablome]

2 masters of their craft talkin regional BBQ, nothin better, imho!!!!

[russf]

Imagine being able to draw that sauce map! _All the BBQ joints you would have had to visit._
THAT is how you see America!

[Katdragonatlarge]

I am always blown away at human ingenuity to turn something as basic-sounding as food into an art-form! I love this show! :D Thanks Dr. Conyers!

[JudiChristopher]

Some of my favorite memories is in East Texas...
WAY Back in the woods... you'd find a shanty shack where they'd smoke brisket.... and had a chop' block... they would serve the meant on a paper bag, or newspaper... with White Bread, Onion, Pickles.... YUM...

[Cadwaladr]

As a northern boy, I gotta say this is very educational. Thank you, Dr Conyers.

[muchacha]

I love that you don't hide your country accent Dr. Conyers! I recently discovered your videos a few days ago and I am LOVING them. #SouthernBBQTraditions #BlackAndProud #NoPlaceLikeHome 🙌🏿 👍🏿 🖤

[stihlmanchainsaw]

Probably the best explanation of Carolina sauce differences you will hear. Many Youtubers are guessing at it. These guys have the right perspective.

[jeffaube]

I lived down south for a bit and traveled the entire lower 48 states, and southern bbq is magical. People in Michigan make good bbq, but it's just not the same as good southern bbq.

[CaptainPIanet]

Crazy how different the sauces are when regionally they are very close

[MichaelDFarrellJr]

I'm from Columbia, SC- I definitely fit the map shown in this video- mustard BBQ will always be my favorite.

[SoloFan]

I’m from Texas and I love TX style BBQ as majority of us love the sauce on the side. But when I was in SC at Scott’s BBQ and tried his version of his BBQ pork and his Vinegar Pepper based sauce and loved it.

When I met Rodney Scott himself he asked how I liked his BBQ and said I loved it. He smiled and I told him I was visiting from Dallas TX and he guest we love our Brisket in TX. I told him where to go for Brisket in the DFW metroplex.

He thanked myself and brought a little more BBQ before I left to go back home to TX.

As for a sauce in TX in the DFW area it really depends but we love our tomato based sauce and we prefer it on the side instead of it being on the meat.

[evilcoleslaw]

As someone from SC it's kind of crazy how true it is. Grew up in Calhoun county, right in the middle of mustard sauce country. There's nothing wrong at all with the vinegar and pepper sauce, but mustard just feels like home. Another BBQ thing that's totally unique to SC from what I can tell is the hash and rice. Heck sometimes I'm more hyped up for that than the pulled pork.

Next time I'm down in Charleston I really want to try to get some BBQ from Rodney's. He was famous even when he was just in Hemingway.

[ritzkola]

Mangoes, oranges, and peppers, and brown sugar. Miami/West Indian style.

[srichey]

BBQ can be compared to Pizza... And Grandmas cooking. You love what you grew up eating.

[mamabb]

Growing up in Darlington, SC watching my Father BBQ whole hogs and basing them with a mop, going in the kitchen and kicking everyone out two days before the BBQing to make his signature sauce! All I know is when the whole family would gather around at the table that he and friends made to sit 40 people...we'd watch them bring the hogs to the table. All I needed was white bread, cole slaw, and hot sauce. Gmas masson jar lemonade, shade from the oak tree, the laughs, sounds of the crispy skin cracking, and lets never forget that one loud country uncle who swear he made the best sauce!! #Memories