Barbecue Basting Brushes

Basting brushes are typically used for basting your meat or applying thin sauces to your food while cooking. A typical basting brush used to have natural hair bristles and a wooden handle. Newer basting brushes have silicone bristles and some even have entire silicone handle for easy clean up.

Basting brushes will work better with thinner runnier sauces then a sauce mop. A good test to see which will work better for you is to stick a piece of silverware (we use a knife) into the sauce and pull it out. Pull it out and if after a few seconds most of it has run off use a basting brush. If the silverware stays well coated use a sauce mop.