So in about a month I'll be having a rib competition at work, the first time we've done it. I'll be experimenting with some rib recipes this weekend. I love my current recipe but haven't tried anything new in a long time. My sauce has already won best sauce for the pulled pork competition we had so I'll be sticking with that plus I have another homemade rib baste sauce to use.
The first of three I'll be trying is the Famous Dave's recipe. Right now I have half a rack of spare ribs soaking in italian dressing for 4 hours per the recipe. They will next be cleaned and rubbed with black pepper, brown sugar and onion flakes and wrapped for overnight. Tomorrow they will be cleaned off and rubbed with the rub from the recipe and either cooked (depending on time) or wrapped again for overnight.
The second recipe I'll be doing is the one from amazing ribs, "last meal ribs: the best ribs you've ever tasted". A step they mentioned which I have not heard of or tried is to first lightly sprinkle your ribs with kosher salt and wrap for at least two hours, unwrap and apply the rub (memphis dust from their site) then rewrap. I've never done the salt process before so two half slabs are currently wrapped in the fridge with a light sprinkling of salt. One slab will be for this recipe, the other for my tried and true go to recipe. I'll pull them all out at 7 tonight for the next steps. Mine and this recipe will get the rub placed on then for overnight.
It's been a while since I've experimented with other recipes so I'm looking forward to the taste tests
I'll probably use one small chunk of hickory under the coals.
