I think it is time to finally smoke something in the MAK 2 Star!!!!
Sparky will like our choice............Ribs!!
Now our local market only had three racks on hand that morning, and I did not care for any of them......but I wanted ribs and had the day off so I bought the best of the three.
The MAK grills has some recipes in the back of their owners manual so we followed (some of it)
We mixed up a couple of MAK rubs with some yellow mustard
I also seasoned the pc of (I think it is breast meat) that runs along the underside of St Louis cut ribs, they make a good snack.
Set the grill up for indirect cooking with a large foil pan on the bottom for drippings and the 3/4 rack for the ribs
Time to start the 250 degree journey
One hour before I pulled the ribs, Wendy brought out her "Death by Potatoes" to get hot and smokey for supper
5 hours later here were our finished ribs
Plated up and ready for devouring.............fall off the bone, just the way we like em
So how did the MAK do for our first smoking session?? Perfectly.
Everytime I fire the MAK up I get as happy as a pig laying in the sunshine.
At 250 degrees we had plenty of smoke throughout the cook.
Now there are two reasons I went with the MAK on the upper rack. Tim suggested I do this because it sure helps the flamezone stay clean. Hey why not?
Shane Draper (inventor of the rub Moo'd Enhance) and resident grill expert over at Grilla Grills loves to cook on the second shelf as much as possible. He claims to get better smokey results.
With the headroom of the MAK 2 Star this is very easy to do and you will see lots of that set-up when we smoke indirect.
Did these two suggestions work? Yup. No clean up and the ribs were absolutely perfect.
Let me tell you about the MAK Chipotle rub. That concoction is in it to win it!!
Lets Talk BBQ's resident rub pusher recommends it highly.
There is so much more coming up, we have barely gotten started. Gonna be a long tasty ride folks
Oh, Wendy owes you some recipes. Look for them this weekend. You will get her puff pastry pizza and Death by Potatoes for your enjoyment.