Presented in no particular order of preference, here is our holiday gift guide. We primarily promote SC BBQ products, but there are a handful of products that are from folks from nearby or are simply handy. All are BBQ-focused.
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SC BBQ Holiday Gift Guide
Sauces, Rubs, and More
Our monthly subscription includes all of our best sellers like St Louis style ribs, juicy pulled pork, Carolina Hash, and brisket. Our pit-cooked meats are slow cooked to perfection so all you have to do is reheat and eat! It’s perfect to store in the freezer and take out whenever a ‘que craving hits. The 1st month’s box will deliver right away, and then we’ll keep sending tasty meats the third week of the remaining months. Here’s what to know: Shipping fees after the 1st month are INCLUDED in the price. There will be no recurring fees on your credit card after the initial order.
There’s always a good reason to spread some meaty love of South Carolina around. Whether it’s family who misses home, or a friend who lives a little too far away, we all have someone in our life that misses the South and their Carolina roots.
Maurice's Taste of Carolina variety pack includes Ribs (2 half racks), hickory pit-cooked chopped BBQ pork (1 pound), and our famous Carolina Hash (1 pint), plus a bottle of our secret heirloom recipe Southern Gold® Original sauce. Serve four with this southern BBQ feast.
Did you know Lewis Barbecue in Charleston shipped their smoked meats? "The only way to have a true taste test of our timeless Texas Style smoked meats is to try them all! The ALL THE MEATS Package includes:
- USDA Prime Beef Brisket
- Whole Pork Butt
- Turkey Breast
- Rack of Giant Beef Ribs
- Rack of Pork Spare Ribs
- Texas Hot Guts Sausage
Make your bbq dreams coming true and upgrade to the ultimate Lewis Barbecue experience by choosing the "Lonestar Package which includes ALL THE MEATS, a LEWIS SLICING KNIFE, and a BARBECUE SAUCE SET.
Visit the site and pick among any of their packages.
Everything you need to cook up an awesome meal for friends and family! Set includes 2 Rubs, 2 Sauces, a Koozie, and a RS Pig sticker for that special Pitmaster. Everything is packed in this terrific Gift Box with Rodney’s logo and a special message from Rodney under the lid. Enjoy!
Jimmy Hagood's Food for the Southern Soul offers a wide range of products. Here, we feature their Pitmaster Gift Box. "All of our favorite BlackJack sauces, marinades and rubs to satisfy his or her inner Pitmaster. Plus while the grill is warming up, you can snack on our Beef Jerky to satisfy the growing hunger pains."
Kit includes BlackJack Beef Jerky, Rib & Dry Rubs, Mustard, Tomato & Vinegar Sauces, Farm & Field Marinade and Peach Grilling Sauce.
Bullies BBQ in Hilton Head offers their own special rubs and sauces in their online store. Bob's Memphis style rub and several varieties of BBQ sauce are all worth checking out.
SATISFACTION TO THE BONE!
Carolina Bob's Grillin provides dry rub seasoning and sauces for grilling great food. Carolina Bob’s Grillin’ Splash adds flavor, tenderizes, and controls flare-up to turn any grill into a championship-level cooker!
Pair it with Carolina Bob’s Grillin’ Dry Rub & All-Purpose Seasoning! It’s not only for the grill, but it’s an all-purpose seasoning that complements any dish.
From grills to gravy, or omelets to okra, Carolina Bob’s Grillin’ Dry Rub will satisfy you to the bone!
Home Team BBQ offers rub, sauce, and merchandise for order online. Rub it in at your next barbecue with their signature blend of spices or choose from all of Home Team’s signature sauces for your next barbecue!
Swig & Swine offers their mustard sauce, sweet red, and jalapeño red for sale on their site. In addition, you can find merchandise and event gift cards to give as gifts or enjoy yourself.
Great For Grilling and Baking!
Whether you’re grilling ribs, chicken, or even a boston butt, Old Mr. Henry Original BBQ Sauce is sure to give your meat the extra kick it needs. The flavor boost is not limited to the grill. Add Old Mr. Henry when you’re baking or pour a little on your fried meats. The flavor will leave you licking your lips. A Certified SC product.
A SC BBQ legend, Shealy's Barbecue in Batesburg-Leesville has been serving the Columbia area since 1969. A great buffet and some special sauces are some of the reasons for their longevity. Now, you can get their sauce, gift cards, and more from their site:
Beasleys Sauces from Walterboro are fruit-based, all-natural, BBQ dipping sauces. They are not sweet like syrup. There is a hint of fruit flavor with a smokey rich background that will enhance any food it is put on. Our Sauces have all Natural Fruit concentrate and purees. No MSG is allowed. It is a Fruit Sauce and a BBQ Sauce. It is not Syrup sweet, it has just enough fruit to kick your tastebuds and make it different than any other BBQ Dipping Sauce you have tried before.
Smokin' Coals and Buzz's Butt Dust are true SC BBQ originals created by the award-winning competition cook team. Smokin' Coals sauce is a multiple “State & National Award Winning Sauce” that has received praises from backyard cookers, Master BBQ Judges and Competition Cook Teams alike.
With its sweet tang, light peppery finish and just a hint of citrus, Smokin’ Coals has impressed cookers throughout the south where barbecue is not just food, but a way of life.
Smokin’ Coals is great on everything from pork, beef, seafood, burgers, even veggies. A sauce for dipping, basting and even marinating, Smokin’ Coals Sauce can become your “GO TO” sauce for everything. Try all 3 Smokin' Coals Sauces in the "Sauce Gift Set".
Created In Charleston, South Carolina. Fall In Love With Our Take On A Southern Staple: BBQ Sauce - Chipper Dog Style. Trust Us On This One, It’s Doggone Good. Chipper Dog is a premium BBQ sauce - perfect for pulled pork, ribs, chicken, steak & seafood. Next time your pack gets together for a BBQ, make sure to bring along Chipper Dog.
The War Mouth in the Cottontown area of Columbia offers special holiday orders of meat, sides, and more from time to time. But you can always find merchandise, gift cards, " Pepper Marsh Salt," and their famous hot sauce. The sauce has just the right amount of heat with a savory, garlicky sweetness. It's good on everything. 10 oz bottles.
Since its conception in 2010, Bobby's Seasoning has expanded to include 3 different blends, Bobby's All Purpose Seasoning (the original), as well as a Citrus Blend and a BBQ Rub. All three seasonings are all natural, contain no additives, preservatives or MSG and are low sodium and gluten free.
The BBQ Rub packs a punch with the addition of extra pepper for your heavier meats that you are grilling or smoking such as brisket, Boston butts, ribs, steaks, etc. Get this one or all three on Bobby's website:
"Burnt & Salty is Bob Cook and Cris Miller. Born out of the combination of debated in food service, endless desire for big flavors, extensive consumption and, most importantly, an inexhaustible love of condiments, our mission materialized in the summer of 2015. It all began with Korean Mustard." Try their whole line of condiments:
Korean Mustard
Spicy Korean Mustard
Chili Glaze
Coconut Suka
Cocktail Sauce
All packaged in a reusable bamboo basket, and garnished with Asian candy and chopsticks. Our All In Gift Basket is the perfect gift for a gourmand, college kid, or adventurous chef!
There are three irresistible barbeque sauce flavors; Krazy K’s Original, Krazy K’s Kurly Tails, and Krazy K’s Red. This means meal magic for ribs, chicken, beef, pork, steak, fish and more. Even use it in your own favorite recipes, as a marinade, or the perfect condiment. Krazy K’s will transform you into a Grill Master! The true Southern taste of each barbeque sauce will satisfy your taste buds, put the tongue in check, and have you coming back for more!
Charleston Pig Company famous BBQ sauce in a 12.5 oz bottle. This local South Carolina barbecue sauce is vinegar based along with tomato and spices that's slightly sweet. Use it pork, chicken or beef. Pair the sauce with the Charleston Pig Dry Rub Seasoning. The sauce is also available in a 64 oz (half gallon size) for the pro or backyard smoker.
A SOUTH CAROLINA SAUCE TRADITION: Enjoy flavors as authentic as the places they come from—including our famous Gold Barbeque Sauce with a tangy, mustard-base. This BBQ sauce is crafted to honor South Carolina traditions.
OUR PREMIUM SAUCES ARE THE PERFECT MATCH: You'll love our barbeque sauces on basically everything. But, our Gold BBQ Sauce is perfect for grilling chicken or pork—it even tastes great on hot links. It's the perfect gift for this holiday season!
Born in Mount Pleasant, Sticky Fingers still makes some of the best BBQ sauce around.
Blue Moon Specialty Foods of Spartanburg
- EXCELLENT GIFT FOR A GRILL MASTER: Give the gift of flavor with a BBQ gift set. The Carolina BBQ Gift Set includes: Yep! Shake Original, Yep! Yeller Dog BBQ Sauce which is a southern mustard-based tradition and Yep! Carolina Red BBQ Sauce which is tangy and peppery. PROUDLY HANDCRAFTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Established in 2018, The Palmetto Sauce Company engages in the manufacturing and bottling of two regional South Carolina BBQ sauces named for the rivers that run through the areas where these types of sauces are commonly used and are still enjoyed today.
Our Congaree Gold sauce is a tasty blend of mustard, pepper, vinegar and other spices with a faint hint of sweetness.
What makes our sauces different? Ours are not overly sweet, and our flavors are downright addictive. When folks run out of things to dip the sauces in, they reach for bread to make sure not a drop is wasted.
Maurice’s Southern Gold® is the original secret recipe that started a South Carolina BBQ tradition – a sweet, tangy mustard-based sauce that is preservative-free, gluten-free and has no fat or cholesterol. Simply cannot go wrong with this sauce sampler pack:
The Lillie's Hab Mussy Mustard BBQ Sauce has added heat while maintaining the sweet-tangy flavor of our original Mustard BBQ sauce recipe. Lillie's of Charleston Hab Mussy recipe, the proud winner of the 2010 Scovie Award, is guaranteed not to disappoint. The initial sweetness and flavor quickly give way to a slow burn hot lovers will enjoy. Our users have coined the term “sneaky heat” to describe the taste of this sauce.
The Spears Acres BBQ Gift Set (Variety Pack) includes a 4.5oz Redneck Rub, 4.5oz AP Rub, and both the Southern Fusion BBQ sauces. Perfect for every grill enthusiast. From Spears Acres in Belton, SC.
Holy Smoke Smoked Olive Oil is first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil that we cold-smoke with hickory. The flavor is rich and buttery with a savory smoke that finishes with a subtle pepper. That's why we say, "It's like liquid bacon that's good for you!"
Books on Amazon
In this cookbook, co-written by award-winning writer Lolis Eric Elie, Rodney spills what makes his pit-smoked turkey, barbecued spare ribs, smoked chicken wings, hush puppies, Ella's Banana Puddin', and award-winning whole hog so special. Moreover, his recipes make it possible to achieve these special flavors yourself, whether you're a barbecue pro or a novice. From the ins and outs of building your own pit to poignant essays on South Carolinian foodways and traditions, this stunningly photographed cookbook is the ultimate barbecue reference.
In the world of barbecue, Carolina-style pork is among the most delicious and obsessed-over slow-cooked meats. Yet no one has told the definitive story of North Carolina barbecue—until now. In Whole Hog BBQ, Sam Jones and Daniel Vaughn recount the history of the Skylight Inn, which opened in 1947, and share step-by-step instructions for cooking a whole hog at home—from constructing a pit from concrete blocks to instructions for building a burn barrel—along with two dozen classic family recipes including cornbread, coleslaw, spare ribs, smoked turkey, country-style steak, the signature burger, and biscuit pudding.
South Carolina has been home to good, old-fashioned barbeque for quite a long time. Hundreds of restaurants, stands and food trucks sell tons of the southern staple every day. But the history of Palmetto State barbeque goes deeper than many might believe--it predates the rest of America. Native Americans barbequed pork on makeshift grills as far back as the 1500s after the Spanish introduced the pig into the Americas. Since the early 1920s, South Carolinians have been perfecting the craft and producing some of the best-tastin' 'que in the country. Join author and president of the South Carolina Barbeque Association Lake E. High Jr. as he traces the delectable history from its pre-colonial roots to a thriving modern-day tradition that fuels an endless debate over where to find the best plate.
The full story of barbecue in the United States had been virtually untold before Robert F. Moss revealed its long, rich history in his 2010 book Barbecue: The History of an American Institution. Moss researched hundreds of sources—newspapers, letters, journals, diaries, and travel narratives—to document the evolution of barbecue from its origins among Native Americans to its present status as an icon of American culture. He mapped out the development of the rich array of regional barbecue styles, chronicled the rise of barbecue restaurants, and profiled the famed pitmasters who made the tradition what it is today.
Barbecue Lover's the Carolinas is an essential reference tool for those looking to immerse themselves in the culture of Carolina-style barbecue. Perfect for both the local BBQ enthusiast and the traveling visitor alike, each book features: the history of the BBQ culinary style where to find––and most importantly consume––the best of the best local offerings; regional recipes from restaurants, chefs, and pit masters; information on the best barbecue-related festivals and culinary events; plus, regional maps and full-color photography.
For years, Matthew Register, the owner and pitmaster of Southern Smoke Barbecue, has been obsessed with the history of southern recipes. Armed with a massive collection of cookbooks from the 1900s and overflowing boxes of recipe cards from his grandmother, he hits the kitchen. Over weeks, sometimes months, he forges updated versions of timeworn classics. Locals and tourists alike flock to his restaurant in Garland, North Carolina (population 700), to try these unique dishes. Now you can make them all at home.
John Shelton Reed is one of today’s most knowledgeable authors on the subject of barbecue. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, written with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed, won the National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence in 2017 and was a finalist for the 2009 International Associate of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award. In this collection, On Barbecue, Reed compiles reviews, essays, magazine articles, op-eds, and book extracts from his many-year obsession with the history and culture of barbecue. Brought together, these pieces constitute a broad look at the cultural, culinary, historical, and social aspects of this American institution.
In Black Smoke, Adrian Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restauranteurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are coming into their own today. It's a smoke-filled story of Black perseverance, culinary innovation, and entrepreneurship. Though often pushed to the margins, African Americans have enriched a barbecue culture that has come to be embraced by all. Miller celebrates and restores the faces and stories of the men and women who have influenced this American cuisine. This beautifully illustrated chronicle also features 22 barbecue recipes collected just for this book.
In this much-anticipated debut, Franklin and coauthor Jordan Mackay unlock the secrets behind truly great barbecue, and share years’ worth of hard-won knowledge. Franklin Barbecue is a definitive resource for the backyard pitmaster, with chapters dedicated to building or customizing your own smoker; finding and curing the right wood; creating and tending perfect fires; sourcing top-quality meat; and of course, cooking mind-blowing, ridiculously delicious barbecue, better than you ever thought possible.
Miscellaneous but Special
"CharGon is a solidly built grill grate cleaner with a U-shaped tip that makes it easy to scrape the tops, sides, and bottoms of round grill grates with no risk of rogue bristles and the health hazard they present. It takes a bit longer than brushes, but it does a better job." - Meathead Goldwyn, amazingribs.com
Slow ‘N Sear® Deluxe (previously called the 2.0), now with 50% more searing power than our Slow ‘N Sear® Original, takes backyard grilling and smoking in a charcoal kettle to the next level, AGAIN! Turn a “basic” kettle grill into the most versatile outdoor cooking machine on the market – indirect slow cooking, high heat searing, roasting, baking…you can have it all with Slow ‘N Sear®!
“The Single Best Accessory For the Weber Kettle Ever” – Meathead Goldwyn, amazingribs.com
This is the unit I personally use when cooking a hog. I can gauge both the internal temperature of the ham while simultaneously monitoring the temperature inside the pit at the grate level. And I can do it from inside my house. Nice on those cold, rainy cooks. There may be fancier ones on the market, but this one has always done the job for me.
This is THE thermometer. You'll see it in use all the time on cooking shows and in pitmasters' hands. "With full readings in ONE second or less, Thermapen ONE approaches the speed of thought - allowing you to focus exclusively on the quality of your work. Never has an instrument been able to achieve such speed and accuracy without sacrificing durability and usability...until now."
During this comprehensive class, owner Wayne Preston teaches groups of up to 20 students how to smoke meat, how to make sauces and rubs, how to barbecue at the correct temperature, what gadgets to use and where to get them, and the differences between regional barbecue styles. The class includes a tour of the Bucky’s Bar-B-Q kitchen as well as a meal of barbecue pork and chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, and a grilled dessert. Students take home their own sauce and rub as well as all the recipes covered in class.
Masterclass
Aaron Franklin’s Masterclass on barbecue is worth the subscription alone. I have watched every minute of it. He goes in-depth on brisket at a level only a true master could present, but he also has amazing chapters on ribs, pulled pork, sauces, and more. But an annual subscription gets you access to so much more.
Why not get one for yourself, and give a membership as a gift this holiday season?
