Hardcore Carnivore Black Rub with sliced smoked brisket with a jet-black bark and pink smoke ring
Hardcore Carnivore JET-BLACK BEEF BARK

Charcoal, Not Charred

Brisket rubbed in activated charcoal and cracked pepper, smoked low and slow into a bark so dark it looks burnt – and tastes like competition gold.

Brisket rubbed in activated charcoal and pepper for a bark so dark it looks burnt.

Hardcore Carnivore Black Rub 368g shaker
Hardcore Carnivore Black rub tri-tip, sliced open on a cutting board with an outdoor garden backdrop lifestyle photo

Best SellerTri-tip sliced through that jet-black Black bark.

Hardcore Carnivore

Cook meat like you mean it.

Hardcore Carnivore is Jess Pryles' seasoning line — a Melbourne-raised, self-taught meat nerd who fell hard for live-fire cooking on a trip to Texas and simply never came home, building her name and her smokers out of Austin ever since.

The range has grown well past a rub and a shaker: 16 products now cover rubs, finishing sauces, compound-butter mixes and even a pair of high-heat gloves — everything needed to season, sauce and handle a proper cook from go to whoa, across beef, pork, chicken and game.

Black leads the shelf — a jet-black, activated-charcoal beef rub built to throw a proper bark on brisket, steak and beef ribs without ever burying the meat underneath — right alongside fellow best-sellers Red (the everyday all-rounder), Burnt Ends Sauce for mopping ribs and brisket late, Sweet BBQ for a glossy pork crust, and Chilli Lime Meatchelada for wings and tacos with a citrus kick. Round it out with the Cowboy Butter and Hot Honey Butter mixes for a proper melted steakhouse finish, and the newly arrived Steak Master Seasoning and Poultry Rub, both available to preorder now.

Most of the core blends are labelled gluten free and MSG free. The exception is MeatyMite, the umami all-purpose rub, which contains gluten (yeast extract) and flavour enhancer 621, so always check the label on each product page. Nearly all of the range is made in Texas, bar that one genuine curveball: MeatyMite is manufactured exclusively in Australia, a cheeky nod back to where Jess actually started.

Big flavour, zero pretending. Cook meat like you mean it.

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