We are enjoy­ing the sunny days of sum­mer and most of us are cook­ing every din­ner out­side. It’s that time of year to give the  kitchen stove a rest and spend some time with the beloved barbecue.

What’s your favourite condi­ment? What makes for the per­fect bar­be­cue party?

We asked, you answered and here are the lov­ingly com­piled results.

The major­ity of you like to make your own home­made BBQ sauce rather than use store-bought, but when you do buy it from the store you stick to President’s Choice.

Hank Hill would be very pleased, you chose propane over char­coal as your go-to incen­di­ary unit.

Out of the fol­low­ing choices for favourite food to grill — steak, chicken, hot dogs, burg­ers, pork chops, egg­plant, fish, shish kebabs — you chose steak. With shish kebabs com­ing in sec­ond and egg­plant (?!?) in third. The pork­chop got no love at all with 0% of the vote. Poor lit­tle pork chop.

When you cook that steak most of you like it between rare and medium, but 9.1% cook it blue rare!

When it comes to essen­tial burger top­pings, you’re not crazy about mayo, avo­cado, rel­ish or banana pep­pers (each 16.3%) and you hardly give bacon a pass­ing glance (only 8%). Lettuce, cheese & pick­les get you more excited (each 33%) than sliced tomoato (25%) but not as much as red onion (41.7%). That just leaves the top two — ketchup and mus­tard. Who do you think was on top?

Ketchup did very well with 50% but mus­tard took the win with a whop­ping 83.3% of the vote. What an upset for ketchup, he thought he had this one in the bag. Mustard, the lit­tle under­dog of the com­pet­i­tive condi­ment scene, reigns supreme.

Finally we asked you what the secret to a great bar­be­cue party is and you over­whelm­ingly replied “Cold beer!”

While we def­i­nitely have to agree, we would also like to share a few more responses with you.

“Simple good qual­ity food. None of that pre-fabricated, mass-produced, chem­i­cal laden crap.”

“Cold bevvies and good friends…even if some­one burns the burg­ers you can still have a great time!”

“Sunshine, a kid­die pool, at least one dog and clas­sic rock on the radio.”

“You can’t have a bar­be­cue with­out water­melon and crack pie.”

“Cold drinks, warm food NOT warm drinks and cold food.”

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