Is there a way I can get a sauce analyzed for the ingredients so i can make the sauce myself?

Question

I want to find out how to make my favorite restaurants bbq sauce at home. I have asked the owner for the recipe but it is a heavily guarded secret. I want to know because I no longer live in the area and I enjoy the sauce very much. I only plan to use the sauce for personal meals and seek to gain no profit

Answer 1

You could take it to a lab and have them analyze it but I'm sure the cost would be prohibitive.

Answer 2

It would probably not be cost effective. Why don't you just ask the resturant owner to bottle and send you some. Tell him you will pay for the sauce and shipping. If it is that good then he should look into bottling it anyway. You only have to do it in a commercial kitchen and a few other things. Snce he already has the resturant then he really wont need anything extra other than bottles and lables. Although he will then have to list everything that goes into the sauce, with the exception the details of the spices. He can just list spices....  

Answer 3

i dont know about finding someone who can do all that

but you should check out cdkitchen.com

they have immitation recipies from a lot of resturants

mabye it will be on there

is the resturant head country BBQ?

Answer 4

Any sauce is so much more than the sum of its parts. Do you think that by reading the ingredients list on a pack of oreos you could make them at home? BBQ sauce is really quite simple - my favorite recipe is to mix sugar and water in equal portions, add soy sauce, ketchup, sesame oil, apple cider vinegar, and salt and pepper.

Answer 5

find a food chemist and get it analyzed. Or take it to CSI, they can do everything!

Answer 6

Find someone who has a spectrum analyzer.  That thing can break down anything.  The only problem is you'll probably just get the chemical makeup and you still need to figure out what ingredients those things are.

Answer 7

Write in to Bon Appetit or another food magazine. Bon Appetit has an RSVP section where they print reader's emails and recipes from restaurants. There's no guarantee they'll pick yours - but write a nice (and short) blurb, and there's a chance you'll be chosen. Especially since people rarely ask for sauce recipes.