Gimme that Honey Mustard

December 3, 2015 6:59 AM

Easy question, I hope: my wife loves Burger King's honey mustard. You know, the dipping kind that comes in the little square 'tubs' when you get chicken strips. However, we cannot find a comparable flavor at the grocery store. I have to admit we haven't taste-tested every kind yet -- but I'm hoping one of you has.

Note: I'm not looking for a homemade recipe, which is what Google returns for me. I'm hoping one of the 'honey mustards' in the mustard section of the grocery store tastes the same so I can just go buy a squirt-bottle of the stuff.

Has anyone run across the same taste in store-bought form, so my wife doesn't have to ration the three she gets when she asks for extra honey-mustard on the rare times we eat at Burger King?

posted by AzraelBrown to Food & Drink (8 answers total)

To me it tastes like equal parts French's Honey Mustard and liquid inverse sugar. I'm not sure there are any commercial brands that go that sweet.
posted by fairmettle at 7:20 AM on December 3, 2015

The closest I've ever experienced is the O'Charley's brand honey mustard. I actually use it in a dip I make and it has to be that type of honey mustard to work.

You can find this slightly different bottle than the one I linked in stores like Kroger, but its normally over in the produce section for some reason in the refrigerated section.
posted by Twain Device at 7:28 AM on December 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Ken's Steakhouse is pretty close.
posted by rachelpapers at 7:37 AM on December 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

If it were me I would purchase 20 or 30 honey mustards.... I'm not sure how much that costs nowadays but if it were less than 10 dollars for a decent amount I would consider it money well spent!
posted by flink at 7:53 AM on December 3, 2015

The closest I've found to fast-food/bar-food honey mustard is Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce. I can't speak to BK, but I'm 99% sure it's exactly what Wendy's uses.
posted by zombieflanders at 8:00 AM on December 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

Are you looking in the salad dressing section? I buy the house brand of Von's/Safeway's honey mustard dressing and the flavor is pretty close. It's thinner and, I think, a smidge less concentrated. In other words, it's not quite as syrupy. But I eat it on my homemade chicken strips and tuck a napkin in my shirt and I'm pretty happy.

I have been tempted to mix in a dollop of sweet chili sauce or corn syrup to thicken.
posted by Lyn Never at 8:47 AM on December 3, 2015

The honey mustard at a lot of chain restaurants is mayo, mustard, and honey. Maybe try that?

Or take the ingredients list (caution: is from a woo site, sorry, just ignore the allergens stuff) and compare to your grocery store options? The egg yolks, hot sauce, dijon & regular mustard being included make me think the BK kind is a little different than your average store honey mustard, or at least egg, hot sauce, and dijon mustard are not in the ingredients list of the honey mustard sauce here at my place.
posted by holyrood at 6:32 PM on December 3, 2015

Response by poster: The grocery store only had the Ken's brand available -- and on taste-test (which is my wife's least-favorite kind of test; she's not food adventurous, hence the attachment to Burger King honey mustard), and although not a perfect match it passed the 'mustard', so to speak! I'm not done yet, though; I'll see if Sweet Baby Ray's and O'Charley's are available at the bigger-box stores and update accordingly.
posted by AzraelBrown at 5:02 AM on December 4, 2015