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Title: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: Smokin Don on August 02, 2014, 01:33:49 AM
Aug 01 2014

For tonight’s supper I was having BB Ribs with Apple butter BBQ sauce, creamy cider potato salad and Sutter’s corn on the cob. The BBQ sauce was Walnut Creek Foods from Walnut Creek, OH. I think that is up Cliff’s, Tenthunter’s way.

My potato salad I peeled and sliced some Burbank potatoes and boiled them with water to cover plus I added a cup of Apple Cider. I made up the potato salad about 11:00 and let it set, covered, in the fridge until supper time.

I had six ears of corn and wanted to try my large pot with a basket on my gas burner. The basket sets up 1 inch off the bottom so I figured I could use it to steam the corn; my favorite way for corn. If I need to do a bunch of corn I could get at least 18 stacked in set on end. It worked out well and the corn was delicious.

My ribs I would do the way I have been doing them, 2-2-1. For the first 2 it is usually an hour at 180 deg. then an hour at 225 to 250 deg.  Then if I wrap in foil it’s at 250 to 270 deg. Then if I sauce it’s a onetime sauce and let set the last hour ; if it looks like I need to up the temp I go to 300 deg. for the last hour. If I don’t wrap or sauce it’s the same times and temps.

I wet the ribs down last night with a little apple cider vinegar then a generous amount of Savors, Fine Swine and Bovine rub. I wrapped in plastic wrap and in the fridge overnight.

I got the ribs on at 1:00 and planned on them to be done at 6:00. The first hour went fine held at about 180 deg. average. I upped the temp for the second hour and had trouble holding it down, went to 290 deg. for a while but then got it back to about 250 deg. At 2 hours I wrapped in foil adding 3 pats of butter and a ¼ cup of apple cider.

After an hour 45 minutes in the foil I unwrapped and they looked great; but when I put them back in the smoker they were falling apart. I did get them back on in two pieces. I sauced the back side and let sit 5 minutes, turned and sauced the meat side. I turned the smoker down to smoke mode and got my water boiling to do the corn. I told the wife we would be eating early!

All was done at 5:30 so took inside to serve it up. The ribs were delicious even though overdone. The sauce had some heat right out of the jar but was lost in the cooking.  The Fine Swine and Bovine rub went well with the sauce. I want to try it with some naked ribs soon.

My wife was not crazy about my potato salad but I loved it; maybe just needs some fine tuning. The corn was out of this world tender and sweet!

I know it’s a lot of pics for overdone ribs so silent movie time!

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Smokin Don
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: muebe on August 02, 2014, 07:04:50 AM
Ribs look great Don and the corn you get always looks so good!!!
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: HighOnSmoke on August 02, 2014, 07:07:18 AM
Delicious looking cook Don!
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: N. Ontario Smoker on August 02, 2014, 10:05:15 AM
A nice plate of food. Like the beer.
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: sliding_billy on August 02, 2014, 10:57:23 AM
Great looking cook.
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: sparky on August 02, 2014, 11:07:13 AM
great meal SD. 
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: drholly on August 02, 2014, 01:00:59 PM
Great looking cook.
X2!
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: TMB on August 02, 2014, 02:00:02 PM
Looks very good Don.
Title: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: Pappymn on August 02, 2014, 03:25:50 PM
That looks super duper. I have never heard of a Burbank potato ???
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: CDN Smoker on August 02, 2014, 03:37:40 PM
Well done again SD, always looks great ;D
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: Las Vegan Cajun on August 02, 2014, 07:48:34 PM
Excellent looking plate, especially the ribs.  ;)
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: hikerman on August 02, 2014, 09:18:53 PM
Another blue ribbon cook Don! Nice plate of food!   :P
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: ACW3 on August 02, 2014, 11:43:19 PM
Another blue ribbon cook Don! Nice plate of food!   :P

I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Art
Title: Re: BB Ribs, Creamy Potato Salad and corn on the cob
Post by: pz on August 03, 2014, 01:17:04 AM
Ribs look great Don and the corn you get always looks so good!!!

X2 - mouth watering!