Pork

Pork covers the widest shelf in the shop: rubs, seasonings and sauces built around its thick fat cap and its forgiveness on a long, slow cook — pulled pork off the shoulder, baby back and spare ribs, ham on the bone, thick-cut chops. Reach for this drawer on a shoulder or butt headed for pulled pork, a rack of ribs before the smoker, chops on the grill, or a glaze brushed onto ham in its last twenty minutes in the oven. Pork carries sugar and spice better than most proteins, so the range leans sweet-savoury over straight heat.

Start with Meat Church's Honey Hog for a proper sweet pork-and-poultry rub built for bark on a smoked shoulder, or reach for Hardcore Carnivore's Sweet BBQ Rub for the same brown-sugar-and-paprika job. For sauce, Kosmos Q's Honey Jalapeno BBQ Sauce glazes ribs with real chilli behind the sweetness.

There's a genuine heat spread here — Hardcore Carnivore's Sweet BBQ Rub and Meat Church's The Gospel carry no heat at all, while Four Monkeys' Jungle Juice Pomegranate Habanero Rib Glaze and Low n Slow Basics' Hook Shot Jalapeno & Whiskey Sauce sit at the hot end. Hardcore Carnivore's Sweet BBQ Rub and Meat Church's Honey Hog are both gluten free too.

It's a genuine mix of US-imported and Australian-made — Meat Church and Kosmos Q shipped in from the States, alongside homegrown blends from Butchers Axe's Ranger Red Rub and Low n Slow Basics' Honey Soy Slammer. Sweet, smoky, built to hold up over hours of low heat.

Explore more: our pulled pork and ribs collections.