Who makes Head Country BBQ sauce?

Two companies added some flavor to their food preparation businesses Friday. Old World Spices and Seasonings of Overland Park, Kansas, announced that it has acquired Ponca City-based barbecue sauce firm Head Country.

Did KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce go out of business?

The current owner of KC Masterpiece — which once operated the Overland Park venue, a location on the Country Club Plaza and two restaurants in St. Louis, now all closed — is a company called Restaurant Equity Venture.

What is special about Kansas City barbecue sauce?

Kansas City BBQ sauce is the perfect balance of sweet and tangy. It’s rich from the molasses, bright from the acidic tomatoes and vinegar, and has just the right amount of heat from the chili powder. It’s a classic, ketchup-based BBQ sauce that is a must-have for chicken, ribs, and more!

Where is Head Country BBQ made?

Ponca City
Head Country makes an average of 5,500 gallons of sauce (original, smoky and hot) a day at its production facility in Ponca City, and it cranks out slabs of ribs and pints of potato salad by the hundreds for barbecue fans who have made the pilgrimage to the Head Country restaurant.

What is in Head Country seasoning?

Ingredients Salt, Dehydrated Vegetables (Garlic, Onion, Red Bell Pepper), Monosodium Glutamate, Sugar, Paprika, Spices, Natural Smoke Flavor, and No More Than 2% Silicon Dioxide Added to Prevent Caking.

What are the top 5 BBQ sauces?

The Best Barbecue Sauces, Ranked

  • Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey Chipotle Barbecue Sauce.
  • King’s Hawaiian Original Sweet Pineapple BBQ Sauce.
  • Bone Suckin’ Sauce.
  • King’s Hawaiian Smoked Bacon BBQ Sauce.
  • Kraft Hickory Smoke Barbecue Sauce.
  • Bulls-Eye Original BBQ Sauce.
  • Stubb’s Original Bar-B-Q Sauce.
  • Sweet Baby Ray’s Barbecue Sauce.

What company owns Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce?

Hard data on the sales numbers are hard to come by since Sweet Baby Ray’s was a private company before it sold, and its new owner, Ken’s Foods, is a private company as well. Dave Raymond put the ballpark value of the Sweet Baby Ray’s sauce brand in the $560 million range in a short 2016 documentary.

What makes Texas BBQ unique?

Lots of barbecue styles use mustard, tomato, and vinegar-based sauces. But Texas-style brisket – really good brisket that is seasoned with simple salt and pepper and is so juicy and tender, it melts in your mouth with each bite sans sauce – is what makes the state’s barbecue unique and special.

What makes Memphis BBQ unique?

For Memphis style BBQ, you’re likely to see it in its most popular incarnations: pork ribs and pulled pork. Other than the predominant use of pork, the other element that makes this regional style so distinctive is the rub. Traditionally, the meat is rubbed down with a dry rub made up of up to 40 different spices!

What is the difference between Texas and Kansas City BBQ?

The primary difference here is that this meat is cooked for an even longer period of time in order to produce exceptionally tender meat. It’s also cooked over hickory wood and uses a wet marinade rather than a dry rub.

What is the difference between Kansas City and Memphis BBQ?

The barbecue in Memphis is tangy and thin, which makes it very different from is Kansas City competitors. While the sauce is also tomato-based and contains brown sugar, it includes mustard and vinegar among its ingredients as well.