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The best barbecue sauces in the test


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Stiftung Warentest tested the companions for steak and sausages

Which sauces are the best?

The best grilled food does not want to taste so good, if the right sauce is missing. It does not always have to be ketchup.

In the supermarket you will find a lot of products - gypsy sauce, barbecue sauce or garlic sauce cover almost every preference.

But which sauce tastes best? And which variety suits which meat? The Stiftung Warentest has now checked this for all barbecue friends (detailed in "test", issue 5/2014). Steaks and spare ribs want a barbecue sauce. Ten different products have the Stiftung Warentest tasted here.

From the comparison, the "Block House Fine BBQ with honey and hickory smoke" was clearly the winner. With a price of 3.30 euros for the 240-ml bottle, it is not among the cheap varieties. But it compensates with aromatic taste. There was the quality rating "good" (1.6).

Cheap sauces such as Aldi or Netto can not compete, they taste more like ketchup. Gypsy sauce goes well with sausage and meat. Right at the front in the test field of eight different varieties, the tasters placed the "Knorr Gypsy Sauce" (0.99 Euro / 250 ml). For their fruity taste of tomatoes and peppers with a hint of onion, the grade was "very good" (1.5).

Also with the gypsy sauces it was enough for the cheap offers of the discounters Aldi, net and Kaufland only to a "satisfactory". Fish and seafood accompany garlic sauce best. Among seven reviewed candidates, the "Knorr Garlic Sauce" (0.99 Euro / 250 ml) received the best mark in the test (1.5).

Just as well cut off the "Kühne Garlic Sauce" (0.89 Euro / 250 ml). Just barely behind was the "Bautz'ner Brutzel Garlic Sauce (grade: 1.7, price: 0.99 Euro / 250 ml) .The testers praised the creamy mouthfeel and the bite-resistant onion and garlic pieces in these three sauces.

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