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ChefSteps Spice Rub Kit

Get everything you need to enjoy these iconic regional BBQ flavors along with burnished bark on any cut, whether you’re cooking in your home kitchen or smoking meat in the great outdoors.

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We Rewrote The Rules on BBQIntroducing the ChefSteps line of BBQ rubs and the innovative Bark Builder

Here at ChefSteps, we love barbecue. From traditional smoked ’cue to indoor sous vide and oven cooking methods, we’ve always strived to make great at-home barbecue achievable for everyone. So where do we go next? We decided to go all-in on spices, partnering with our Pike Place neighbors at World Spice to develop three signature barbecue rubs and an innovative new product to help achieve crunchy bark without the need for a smoker.

We’re excited to introduce the ChefSteps line of BBQ rubs and our brand new Bark Builder. Now you can bring home the flavors of South Carolina, Kansas City, and Texas barbecue, and achieve the burnished bark of your dreams from the comfort of your kitchen.

Along with sourcing the freshest and highest quality spices around, the folks at World Spice have added an extra unique layer of flavor to each rub by cold-smoking the spices with wood from the rub’s region of influence—mesquite for the Texas rub, pecan for Kansas City, and post oak for our Carolina Gold.

Oven Barbecue Pork Shoulder

Oven Kansas City-Style Barbecue Ribs

Oven Texas-Style Barbecue Brisket

Introducing Bark Builder

What if we told you that producing bark is possible for indoor barbecue? What if we told you that after 300 hours of experimentation in the ChefSteps test kitchen, cooking rounds and rounds of pork butt, ribs, and brisket, geeking out on pH, Maillard reactions, and alternative sugars, we have developed a product that can help you achieve barbecue bark, no smoker required? Well, we’ve done just that. Introducing: Bark Builder, the secret ingredient for leveling up indoor barbecue.

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Indoor BBQ Bark Builder

No smoker? No problem. Use ChefSteps’ Bark Builder with any rub to get that crusty, crunchy real-deal barbecue bark, even when cooking indoors.

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Sweet & Spicy Kansas City BBQ Rub

Sweet and spicy, this cold-smoked rub has all the flavor of an amazing Kansas City sauce in a rub. The bite from yellow mustard and black pepper, sweetness from brown sugar, plus a hint of smoke and a touch of acid for balance. Rub over ribs and enjoy.

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Carolina Gold BBQ Rub

Carolina Gold is a powerhouse of tang. Yellow mustard seed and vinegar hit you front and center alongside a little sweetness to balance the bite, and a kick of cayenne to round it out. The whole mix is cold-smoked with post oak for extra depth of flavor. Finish your pulled or chopped pork with even more Carolina Gold BBQ Rub, or toss it with your favorite Carolina Gold sauce to double down on that sweet mustard tang.

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Texas Black Pepper BBQ Rub

This rub is about the meat. Based on the classic salt and black pepper of a Texas beef barbecue, we’ve smoked this blend with mesquite and punched up the flavor so that this super-coarse grind stands up to the hot fat on a brisket or juicy ribs. If you serve it with sauce, we’ll let you explain why to your Texas friends.

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A Little Bit on World Spice

World Spice Merchants began as a sole proprietorship in 1995 and remains a small family business today. Their Flagship store adjacent to Seattle’s Pike Place Market is a thriving hub of flavor exploration, offering over 300 selections of pure herbs and spices, handcrafted blends and estate teas.

World Spice’s values are rooted in the importance of relationships and responsibility by acting with integrity, kindness, and respect. They are dedicated to quality and service. Sourcing fresh, whole ingredients, grinding spices to order, and hand-crafting our blends in house allows World Spice to offer the highest quality.