This is a carefully considered and greatly sanitized comment about not only this particular topic but on many other recent threads related to cloning recipes. I am aware this will get me booted from this site but I have to speak out before I go.
I've known Bill Arnold, the owner of Blues Hog, through the competition circuit for about 10 years. In addition to some very serious health problems he's experienced in the past couple of years, he runs his small sauce business while also raising three young girls on his own.
I've watched Bill make a batch at a contest. I know what goes into it and how he does it. In spite of that, I've never given a moment's thought toward making it myself. To my way of thinking, Blues Hog is Bill's creation and fully entitled to all the rewards from his creation.
Blues Hog is not a faceless corporation. It's made by a family man in a small town in Missouri that's well off the beaten path.
I find thought that so many people in this thread are repeatedly badgering a former professional chef to not only knock off the recipe but post the results on an open forum to be simply disgusting.
If you can honestly rationalize the notion of saving a few cents by making your own copy and feeling proud of yourselves for depriving a small businessman of his livelihood then I don't care to have anything more to do with the lot of you.
BUMP! That was the sound of me slamming the ****ed door behind me.
Ken Nelson