{"id":2564,"date":"2010-03-26T19:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2010-03-26T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:59:04","slug":"houston-fire-station-17-rub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/houston-fire-station-17-rub\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Fire Station #17 Rub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe comes straight from the winners of the Firehouse Grill-Off at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlsr.com\/\">Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodeohouston.com\/events\/bbq\/index.aspx\">World Championship Bar-B-Que Contest<\/a> (aka &#8220;The Cookofff&#8221;&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know anyone who calls it the &#8220;Bar-B-Que Contest&#8221;) is always a big event, and apparently the firefighters of Houston get in on the action, too with their own cook-off.\u00c2\u00a0 The Firehouse Grill-Off was sponsored by the Texas Beef Council, so obviously this rub was originally intended for steak.\u00c2\u00a0 I used it on pork chops, but I think it would also be fantastic on pork tenderloin, chicken, and definitely steaks.\u00c2\u00a0 This recipe makes a LOT of rub, enough rub to coat 10 strip steaks.\u00c2\u00a0 I quartered the recipe and still had more than enough for my 4 thin bone-in pork chops.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2566\" title=\"Houston Fire Station #17 Rub\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Houston-Fire-Station-17-Rub.jpg\" alt=\"Houston Fire Station #17 Rub\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Houston-Fire-Station-17-Rub.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Houston-Fire-Station-17-Rub-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Houston Fire Station #17 Rub<\/h4>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/\">The Houston Chronicle<\/a>, Flavor Section, March 17, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup raw sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons dried minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons dried onion<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons paprika<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 tablespoons chili powder<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons coarse black pepper <em>(I might use less next time)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons cayenne pepper <em>(I might use less next time)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon dried thyme<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tablespoon cumin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Combine all ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 Store rub in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/houston-fire-station-17-rub\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe comes straight from the winners of the Firehouse Grill-Off at the recent Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.\u00c2\u00a0 The World Championship Bar-B-Que Contest (aka &#8220;The Cookofff&#8221;&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know anyone who calls it the &#8220;Bar-B-Que Contest&#8221;) is always a big event, and apparently the firefighters of Houston get in on the action, too with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,5,10,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beef","category-chicken","category-main-dish","category-pork","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}