The Rub: Generic

Rubs

This post is shameful! Rubs are easy.

No really: Rubs are dead easy and a great way of add flavor to stuff.

By stuff I mean meat, pork or chicken.

I start by toasting what can be toasted.

Black pepper, allspice, Greek fennel, coriander seeds and the juniper berries goes into a small frying pan over the lowest heat my stove can produce.

Keep moving them around until your kitchen smells something between a gin distillery and a middle eastern bazaar. Kill the heat.

Grinding

There are 2 great ways of grinding one is by hand the other is using a coffee grinder. If you use the coffee grinder approach have one that is used exclusively for spices and other for coffee beans. Two words that will make my point: Coriander coffee.

As I only have one coffee grinder I will do it by hand using a pestle and mortar.

So add the powdered ingredients and the recently toasted ones.

Here is the fun¹ part: Grind grind grind grind.

Time to Rub

That’s it.

Save it in an air thigh container and it has the shelf life of uranium², although it will lose taste as old as it gets (think your grandma slippers).

I consider 3 months is a good trade-off.

If you are wondering how to use it I will show you on another post, If you are not wondering I will show it anyway.

¹For a use that is not the usual definition of the word fun

²Uranium-238 (99.284% of Uranium) half live is about 4.47 billion years.. so shelf live would be something like 3 times that, give or take : 13.73 billion years.