Grilling Spices & BBQ Rubs
Great grilling starts with the best grilling spices, BBQ rubs and meat seasonings. Whether you're searching for the perfect grilling spices for salmon or the best spices for grilling chicken, we have you covered. Looking for more of a low-and-slow BBQ? Sweet and smoky BBQ chicken, pork, and rib dry seasoning rubs will make you a champion in your own backyard.
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Black Dust Coffee & Spice Barbecue Sauce
Get 10% off the purchase of any 3 Barbecue Sauces - mix & match your favorites! Black Dust Coffee & Spice Barbecue Sauce is a thick, ketchu...
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California Citrus Rub
Use our California Citrus Rub as your go-to dry rub to apply on chicken and pork before roasting or grilling. In addition, citrus seasoning on fish...
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Black Label Reserve Smoked Salt & Pepper
Get 10% off the purchase of any 3 shakers - mix & match your favorites! Black Label Reserve Smoked Salt & Pepper is cold-smoked over whiske...
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No Salt For You! Spice Set
With this salt-free seasoning gift set, cutting salt, but not flavor, is simple. These salt-free seasonings are packed with flavor. Getting creativ...
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Great Plains Bison & Beef Rub
Great Plains Bison & Beef Rub with coffee, coriander and fennel is best for seasoning bison burgers, bison steak and a Cowboy cut of beef. Whil...
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Lake Barkley Fried Chicken Seasoning
Lake Barkley Fried Chicken is our blend of 11 herbs & spices that was created to be your go-to secret ingredient seasoning for fried chicken. T...
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Hog Heroes Spice Set
Go hog-wild with our best seasonings for pork from around the country. While this BBQ spice gift set was created with pork seasonings in mind, thes...
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Home to Roost Spice Set
This gift set of spices for chicken and poultry seasonings works for a variety of cooking types, including grilling, roasting, and smoking. Use the...
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner Spice & Easy Bundle
These chicken recipes for dinner make it super simple to get a flavorful meal on the table any night of the week. Streamline your meal planning wi...
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Featured Recipes
Grilled Pepper Steak Kebabs Recipe
A choice of BBQ rubs elevates simple and summery steak kebabs without any extra effort!
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This super easy salmon is great over a bed of rice and veggies or served with mixed greens.
view recipe >Family Foil Dinners Recipe
Allow each person to choose their own seasoning and switch it up with your favorite veggies and proteins!
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What are the best grilling spices & rubs?
A good butcher's rub with salt & pepper, garlic, onion and dried herbs is incredibly versatile, which makes it one of the best grilling spices to have on hand. It's a coarse blend and will not "cook off" during grilling, no matter what type of meat you have on the grill. Smoky, salty, and peppery rubs & blends are also classic grilling flavors. Spices for grilling need to stand up to high heat. We recommend peppery Pikes Peak Butcher's Rub, coffee-based Great Plains Bison & Beef Rub, classic Flat Irons Prime Rib Rub, Hudson Bay Beef Spice (our version of a Montreal-style steak rub), or our salt-free dry rub, Mt. Evans Butcher's Rub.
What is the best BBQ seasoning?
The best BBQ seasonings include salt & pepper, sugar, paprika, garlic, onion, mustard powder, chili powder, oregano and cumin – it just depends whether you're into smoky, sweet, peppery or spicy barbecue flavors. Because traditional barbecue is low & slow, you don't have to worry about sugar-based rubs tasting burnt. We have a variety of dry rub blends inspired by classic BBQ styles and flavors, like Georgia Boys All-Purpose BBQ Rub, TSM BBQ Chicken Rub, and Santa Maria Sea Salted BBQ Rub. One of our more unique flavors, Park Hill Maple & Spice, is aromatic and good on pork, salmon, and root veggies.
What are the best seasonings & spices for smoking meat?
Salt & pepper, brown sugar, garlic, onion, paprika, and chili powder are some of the best spices to use when smoking your meat. You can blend your own but we also have a great selection of pre-mixed BBQ rubs. Our Red Rocks Hickory Smoke Seasoning is sweet, smoky and salty – making it great on beef, chicken, and more. To amp up the the smoke flavor, we also love Black Label Reserve Smoked Salt & Pepper, Alderwood Smoked Sea Salt and Whiskey Barrel Smoked Black Pepper.
Should you put spices on before or after grilling?
The short answer: both! Grilling spices add flavor, but they can also "cook off," reducing the impact. One of the best ways to maximize your flavors is to season before grilling, as well as during (like a glaze or mop), or after grilling (with sauces and finishing salts). An easy tip for knowing how long to season before grilling is to season your protein when you pull it out of the refrigerator. It's best to let the protein come to room temperature before putting it on the grill and that's an ideal way to help your seasoning form a flavorful crust on your meat.