Adjoining each meat bowl was a bowl with the sauce by itself. These bowls were laid out in random order on a table and then labeled again with letters. This way the eaters didn't know what sauce they were trying nor whether it was a supermarket or grocery brand. After tasting each sauce both combined with hot pork and then on its own cold, eaters wrote comments, and, finally, ranked their choices 1-12. A tally was then taken to rank the sauces based on both the number of votes and the number of high-ranking votes it received (a sauce that was ranked "1" with a taster received 12 points; a sauce that was ranked "2" received 11, etc.). After the ranking was complete, we upended the bowls to discover the sauce identities.