 Hey y'all welcome back to the Firewater Cooking Channel. I'm Darren and today this is going to be one of our Teaching Tuesday episodes and we're going to talk about seasonings making our own and buying pre-made. So I'll be right back. All right guys this is going to be a quick episode but I wanted to kind of touch on this because I do get questions a lot about this kind of thing and I buy a lot of just base seasonings and I kind of create my own rubs and seasonings but I also use some store-bought or some brand name mixes so I kind of wanted to go over that. One of the things I use a lot is my own beef rub and what that what I usually use for that is just a simply a mixture of kosher salt, coarse ground black pepper and garlic powder or granulated garlic. That is a great base for most your beef roasts, steaks, stuff like that. It's a really good mixture of salt and pepper and of course they're always go good together and you throw in the garlic for that little bit of savory. Sometimes I'll add a little bit of you know chili powder in there if I want something a little bit more spicy but it's a lot cheaper and you can control the flavors of the seasoning a lot more of the blends when you control it yourself. So if you're somebody who likes some more pepper in your beef rub you can add more pepper to it. If you like more salt you can use more salt than the pepper. If you don't like a lot of garlic you can put a little garlic. If you like a lot more garlic you can put more. That's what I like about making my own rubs. Not that it's just cheaper it's I get to control the different amounts of each of the seasonings that I have in there the spices or what have you. So that's that's one of the things I like about it. Now there are some that I like to use every once in a while. I'll just season something up with just some lemon pepper and a little bit of salt and I'll use a blended lemon pepper for that. You know this is a run and while lemon pepper which I really like. They're smoky paprika seasoning. It's got some things in here that I don't have access to like some smoked spices and stuff like that. They're um they're uh this is their pork candy rub and they've got some things in there like dehydrated apple cider and things like that that it's hard for you to find on your own to make something up like that. So so that's why I kind of like a little bit of both. I like to make my own here sometimes on different things and then also by some some mixes and some pre-made stuff from different brands. So let's talk about just basically where to get this stuff from. I mean it's easy to get especially if you go to Costco or Sam's Club or some of the bigger box um GFS or any kind of restaurant supply. You can get the big you know jugs of different seasonings so you can make up you know make a big uh you know jars of your own different seasoning. So it's real easy to get started making your own. I would try um if you're gonna if you haven't done it before and you want to try it just do small batches. Most of you probably already have a lot of these different seasonings in your cabinet already. You probably have some garlic powder, onion powder, kosher salt, paprika all in separate jugs. But um so I would suggest you taking smaller just a small you know amount of them kind of mix it and try it up on like one steak or one roast and then see the difference in the different blends you know. Let's say you're doing a beef row and you use a teaspoon of each and you find that that's too salty for you or too peppery or not enough garlic. You can adjust it on a small smaller scale and then when you find something that you really like you can make a bigger batch like this. So you just uh you know start out small try it out. You might want to do a couple different kinds of mixtures and blends like I said you know. Okay I just want to what I'm going to do is show you how I make my base chicken uh rub here and as you can see um just about out of it. I use this quite a bit so this is uh you know my pre-made little empty thing. I love these things that's why I buy a lot of bulk spices because I can use these over and over for my pre-made my rubs that I make myself. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to mix up some more of this so I can have some more and what I'm going to do I don't usually measure to the exact I usually will take a quarter cup like this and I usually start with my kosher salt and I'll add that pretty much I'll add a quarter cup of the kosher salt in the mix here and like I said you know the good thing about making these yourself is you can pretty much adjust to your taste to what you like. So I put a quarter cup of the salt in and usually I'll take some of this coarse ground black pepper and since this is a poultry rub I don't want a whole lot of pepper I'll only use maybe an eighth of a cup maybe a little bit less and I'll put that in there so as you can see it's not really anywhere close to the amount of salt in there I'll do the same thing with the onion powder I don't want a ton so maybe a little bit less than an eighth so about that maybe two tablespoons or so to a quarter cup of the salt and then I'll take my garlic powder which I do like you know a good amount of garlic so I might do about an eighth of a cup of the garlic so a little bit more garlic than onion so you can see how that looks right there and paprika I do add probably just a little bit less than an eighth of a cup because I do like the color and the flavor that paprika adds so about a little less than half amount of salt that I have in there and then for my dried herbs which I just use a Italian seasoning I'll use about the same amount a little bit less than an eighth of a cup so about half of this quarter of a cup here and I'll add that in and if you can see how that looks that's how simple it is guys and then I'll just go ahead and mix it up with a spoon and these are all you know dried ingredients so they mix up pretty well and I usually will go by sight and just kind of see how it looks from there I've made this so many times that I know what it should look like and if you see it looks a little it looks a little bit lighter than what I normally do which means it's not enough paprika in it so I'll add just a little bit more and I'll touch it up so it starts getting looking a little bit more like what's in the bottle there and that's about it I mean it's that easy and then you got a nice poultry rub and from this base you can do just about anything else with it so this rub here you can use on its own for a good poultry rub you can add some lemon pepper to it you could add cayenne pepper chili pepper you could add some sage you could add some ground coriander to it so you could add some of your pre-made rubs like you know the run and while peach rub can add kind of a fruity flavor to it so I use this like I said as a base as a good base poultry rub this works real well but from here you can also add other things to it to you know vary vary the flavors so that's it guys I hope you get something out of that so it's very easy and once you do it once or twice you can kind of eyeball it to where you know what you like I said that's the biggest thing is it's you can customize this to your tastes and your family's tastes and make as much of it or as little of it as you want so all right go ahead and try it guys if you have any questions please make the comments down below I'm going to put some links down in the description below to some places that you can look up to learn how to make some of your own blends and a couple books and stuff but try it out watch us on our next video and make sure you follow us on Facebook Instagram and Twitter like this video and subscribe and I'll see you on the next video