{"id":13,"date":"2012-06-26T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T04:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-07-17T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:57:15","slug":"what-is-texas-style-barbecue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/what-is-texas-style-barbecue\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas-Style Barbecue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbecue in the United States usually involves cooking meat for long periods of time at low temperatures with smoke from a wood or charcoal fire. At <a title=\"absolute barbecue website\" href=\"http:\/\/absolutebarbecue.com\" target=\"_blank\">Absolute Barbecue Company<\/a>, we bring our own five foot barbecue pit to your special event and slow cook over a mesquite fire. \u00a0This form of cooking adds a distinctive smoky taste to the meat and fills the air with an appealing aroma that smells like summer, any time of year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-BBQ-Ribs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8\" title=\"Absolute Barbecue Company Baby Back Ribs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-BBQ-Ribs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-BBQ-Ribs.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-BBQ-Ribs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Absolute Barbecue Company Baby Back Ribs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Barbecue is a favorite style of preparing meat, especially in the cuisine of Texas. \u00a0Texas is a very, very big state and Texas barbecue traditions can be divided into four general styles according to where you happen to be in Texas at the time: East Texas, Central Texas, South Texas and West Texas. \u00a0The Central and East Texas varieties are generally the most well-known. \u00a0Author Griffin Smith, Jr. in a 1973\u00a0<em>Texas Monthly\u00a0<\/em>article described the dividing line between Central and East Texas barbecues as &#8220;a line running northward between Dallas and Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-Smoker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7\" title=\"Absolute Barbecue Texas-Style Slow Smoker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-Smoker-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"ABC smoker\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-Smoker-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-Smoker-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-Smoker-448x300.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ABC-Smoker.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Absolute Barbecue Company&#8217;s slow-smoker<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"absolute barbecue company\" href=\"http:\/\/absolutebarbecue.com\" target=\"_blank\">Absolute Barbecue Company<\/a> draws from the best of East Texas and West Texas barbecue traditions. \u00a0In the East Texas style the meat is slowly cooked to the point that it is &#8220;falling off the bone&#8221; and marinated in a thick slightly sweet tomato-based seasoned barbecue sauce that keep the meat moist and delicious. \u00a0In the West Texas tradition, <a title=\"absolute barbecue website\" href=\"http:\/\/absolutebarbecue.com\" target=\"_blank\">Absolute Barbecue Company<\/a> applies a mildly spicy rub to the meat and cooked over indirect heat from mesquite wood giving it a unique Absolute Barbecue flavor in the good ol&#8217; Texas tradition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gennys-Ribs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9\" title=\"Genny's-Ribs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gennys-Ribs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gennys-Ribs.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.absolutebarbecue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gennys-Ribs-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbecue in the United States usually involves cooking meat for long periods of time at low temperatures with smoke from a wood or charcoal fire. 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