Rubs recipes

A competition-style dry rub that works on pork, chicken, and beef. Sweet, savory, smoky, with just enough heat to build bark.

The Central Texas rub is exactly two ingredients — coarse kosher salt and 16-mesh black pepper — in a 50/50 mix. Here is why and how to nail it.

Paprika-forward, brown sugar sweet, with a hit of celery salt and dry mustard — the Memphis dry rib rub that lets pork be the star.