Mr Brown rub - too spicy

[Guest]

Smoked my first shoulder this weekend. Great experience with my WSM. But I found that the rub was just too spicy. And I tend to like spicy food, but upon eating the bark, it was like licking black pepper. I don't know if I did something wrong, used bad spices or what.

Can anyone make a suggestion here? Perhaps I should use a rub that is more sugar-based?

Thanks

 

[Spyro Ananiades]

no, you didn't screw up. it is a very peppery rub.

If you would like a sweeter rub, I'd recommend using 2-3 parts of sugar to every part of salt.

A sample sweet rub would look like this...
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>1 CUP Turbinado Sugar (aka 'Sugar in the Raw')
<LI>1/2 CUP Brown Sugar (oven dried)
<LI>1/4 CUP Salt (non-iodize)
<LI>1/4 CUP Seasoned Salt
<LI>1/2 CUP Paprika
<LI>1/4 CUP Black Pepper
<LI>1 TABLESPOON Chili Powder
<LI>1 TEASPOON Cayenne Pepper
[/list]