Smoked ribs: spares, baby backs, country style, beef!

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ravanelli

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Mar 3, 2011
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Portland, Or
On Sunday I hosted fathers day and a relative from Italy, who had never had real smoked ribs.  Pressure was on to give him a proper introduction to some great BBQ!

I picked up a variety of cuts.  Clockwise from the bottom:  Pork spare ribs, a large rack of baby backs split in half, some beef short ribs, and some country style ribs.

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Everything got rubbed up using a variety of rubs.  The beef short ribs got a marinade and ziplocked, then wrapped in foil.  I also set aside the trimmings to use in my baked beans.

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After an overnight rest, got the Horizon fired up.  I used exclusively pecan wood for this smoke.

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Here's a peek after a couple of hours.  The ribs trimmings are on the foil, they got chopped up and put into the beans.

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The spares went for 5 hours (3-2-1), everything else for about 4 (2-1-1) hours.  Here's a look as I was taking everything off the smoker.

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Slicing up the spare ribs.  You'll notice they aren't the most meaty cut, but they still tasted good.

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On to the baby backs.  These were a meaty cut and came out great.

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I dumped all the ribs into a big pan and we ate 'em out on the patio.  Normally I prepare spares, but these baby backs stole the show.

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Close up of the beef short ribs.  These were a pleasant surprise, really tender and flavorful!

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Chopped up beef short ribs.

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Everything came out great, our foreign guest enjoyed his first BBQ and Jeff's sauce sealed the deal.  Thanks for checking out my QView!
 
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