Third time lucky for pork ribs

[MyLeakyBucket]

Enjoyed a hot Saturday afternoon smoking two racks of baby back pork ribs and thought I'd shatre the results. After a disappointing attempt previously with spare ribs, and a middling attempt at baby backs, felt like a big improvement.

Ribs were from Costco (approx. £3 per rack) and used Penzys and Applewood dry rubs. I cannot recommend the Penzys rub enough, which was from the U.S., mainly chiptole and cayenne with plenty of heat and herbs. Applewood is quite grainy but ok.



On my cheap-ish barrel grill, went with charcoal briquettes (with my attempt at the minion method) and oak wood chunks (first time using oak and wood chunks, and was impressed by both). Smoked for two hours, foiled for two hours, then cooked for one further hour outside foil, applying Stubbs BBQ sauce every 20 minutes. Despite the cheap-ish BBQ, managed to maintain a fairly steady 220-240F. The racks split apart a bit from moving them around, unfortunately.





The result was very smokey throughout and came clean off the bone. Didn't feel the need to add any finishing sauce.



Any tips for what to do/not to do next time would be welcomed, as I have two further racks to cook tomorrow.

[Artust]

After messing up a few racks of butchers ribs that cost me a fortune when I first started smoking I moved on to Costco ribs. I have done a fair few cooks with them now an always had good results and seems you have too.

Great little post and welcome more like this.

[JEC]

They look good, if they are too smokey then it is either too much wood (obviously) or the actual wood you used, some woods impart a stronger flavour, apple is quite a subtle flavour if you have some. You can also get quite a bit of smoke from the briquettes when using the minion method, the "cheaper" brands added extra ingredients help give you flavours in your foods you don't want, an easy option might be to switch to lump

[MyLeakyBucket]

Artust -- Yes, I was very impressed by the quality of the CostCo ribs. I've found full racks of ruibs quite difficult to get from the butchers (only selling short racks or inidividual ribs), so will be using CostCo again.

JEC -- they were just the right side of smokey luckily. I used apple the next day and the smoke was a lot lighter and sweeter. Will go a bit lighter with the oak next time, or try it in combination with apple/cherry.

On the lumpwood, I was put off recently after using FuelExpress lumpwood, which was an awful experience. Should try other brands though -- I though a local store that sells Big K lumpwood for a decent price.

[Dgrey]

thats a fair price man...the US sell it much more expensive

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