Let's Talk BBQ
Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Electric Smokers => Topic started by: UWFSAE on July 15, 2013, 09:23:09 PM
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I was lucky enough to find whole racks of cryovac spareribs at the local Kroger for $0.99 per pound so I picked up a few late last week. Rib tip strip, silver skin and excess fat were removed during butchering. I applied a homemade rib rub with a yellow mustard binding agent. They were wrapped and held in the refrigerator a bit longer than I'd have liked (30 hours) due to thunderstorms in the Houston area.
I used a single 4 oz. chunk of apple wood in a 225 smoker on with the rack and the rib tips on a single middle shelf. The rack was pulled at three hours and spritzed with apple juice mixed with a bit of apple butter and a bit more rub was applied. The wrapped ribs were pulled at five hours and the foil removed; I also pulled the rib tips at this point for ... "scientific purposes". I also applied a healthy layer of Georgia Gold BBQ Sauce (http://www.letstalkbbq.com/index.php?topic=4942.0) at this point and returned the rack to the smoker. At six hours on the dot the rack was removed and the sauce had set quite well. The taste was spot on and I could pick up a bit of residual smoke in the sauce. VERY juicy and while the rain prevented me from finishing the ribs on the grill the sauce had set sufficiently in the last hour of smoking where it wasn't really necessary.
And this is what happens when I get a rare Monday off from work. ;)
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Heck of a price on those spares. Looks like you really rendered the fat extremely well.....they look excellent.....nice job and great pics!
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Those are done perfectly.
Just me but I like the colour of the sauce after it has set ???
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Great looking ribs!
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:P :P :P :P :P
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Superb looking ribs!!! bet that sauce knocked it off the charts!!
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great looking rack
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Those look good!!! Nice job cooking!!! Don
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Looks good to me!
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Great looking ribs.......now plate me please :P :P
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Those ribs look delicious.
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Thanks for the kudos everyone. Out of curiosity, has anyone on here ever used apple butter as the binding agent for the rub? I've diluted it with a 3:1 ratio with apple juice for mopping and spritzing on occasion and I like the depth of fruitiness it brings. I figure it might be a nice binder so long as it doesn't burn (which at 225 it shouldn't be an issue) ...
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Great looking ribs. I've gotta try that Georgia Sauce.
I do have to call BS on one thing....and that is Houston got hit with a thunderstorm. That would have been highly unusual. ;) Dee
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Honestly, after the multi-year drought we've had any rain is good rain ... though the thunderstorms have knocked out the power at my campus three times in the past few hours. I'm sure our IT department isn't as big a fan of the showers as I am ...
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Nice, I could surely eat a bunch of those ribs. :)
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Great looking ribs.
Mike
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Those are some seriously good looking ribs!
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Good to see you here, Joe! I'm going to get some stuff up on here pretty soon, too! Y'all are in for some real treats from Joe - great guy, cook and "gadget master" - all in one! 8)
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We be watchin and waitin...... ;)