To explain what I mean, I think you can level up a cooking style. For example, pasta. At level 1, you’re boiling dried pasta and adding sauce out of a jar. At level 1, you add your own spices. Level 3, switch to fresh pasta. Level 4, make your own sauce. And finally at level 5, make the pasta from scratch.
So with BBQ, I guess level 1 would be cooking the meat so it’s neither burnt nor underdone. Maybe level 2 is mixing different meats/cuts that have different heat/time requirements and cooking well. Further levels = ?
Why do Americans seem to think making a sauce is some magic requiring rocket building skills?
I’ve been making my own sauces since I was twelve. Perhaps once I tasted one of those canned “pasta-sauces” as a teenager but they’re disgusting imo.
Unless you’re making your sauce out of fresh tomatoes, it doesn’t even take long. Crushed tomatoes and tomato paste is just fine.
I don’t remember if I be ever really used fresh pasta, tried it maybe once or twice, but I always make the sauce. What do you find so cumbersome in making it?