Has anyone tried the ribs at Costco?

I just want to chime in here. I bought a PBC and decided to try Costco's pre-seasoned ribs for the first cook.

Their rub (or at least the amount they use) is disgustingly salty. I couldn't taste any of the smoke flavor or even the flavor of the coating of bbq sauce, the saltiness was that overpowering.

The only way I could see to save these ribs would be to dunk them in an overly sweet bbq sauce to overpower the saltiness, but that's not going to chagne the fact that I would still be ingesting some unknown yet obviously ungodly quantity of salt. They're probably going to end up in the trash.

It's a shame too, because the quality of the ribs themselves seemed pretty good for the price, but the rub completely ruins them.

Everyone who has a bad experience with overly salty prerubbed ribs should talk to the meat manager.

if they are made in house, they can adjust, if they are brought in that way, maybe they can look at a different brand/supplier?

nanuk said:

Everyone who has a bad experience with overly salty prerubbed ribs should talk to the meat manager.

if they are made in house, they can adjust, if they are brought in that way, maybe they can look at a different brand/supplier?

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I don't really see much of a point. I've searched and this same complaint has showed up on Reddit and other bbq/cooking forums over the years.

Apparently, enough people like it that they keep selling them. I doubt Costco will do anything and I threw out the original packaging and already cooked all of them so a refund would be out of the question.