PBC

[Joey G]

Hi guys. What has been some of your experiences in cooking on this? I have to say I was really disappointed with my first rib cook. They say 2-3 hours for babyback ribs. I had them in the barrel for over 4 hrs and the meat was barely pulling away from the bone. Now, I always wrap them when I cook them on my Yoder YS640. I was under the impression there is no need to wrap them on the PBC. After 4 hrs they were still pink in the thick end of the racks. It was getting late, I had to serve them but I considered it an epic fail. Any thoughts out there?

 

[73saint]

I'm interested as well. Have always liked the pit barrel cookers from afar. I look on Craigslist constantly, and almost pulled the trigger on one recently.

 

[uncle eddie]

I just did a very thick-rack of baby back ribs last weekend. I wrapped them at 170F IT at 3 hours and they were at 202F in just under 5 total hours. These were some really thick and meaty baby back ribs though. The stall started at 167F for these ribs at 2 hrs 45 minutes or so.

Normally I smoke normal-thickness baby-back ribs for 5 or 6 hours to get them to an IT of 202-205F to get the, fall-off-the-bone or very nearly so, ribs.

 

[Joey G]

I just did a very thick-rack of baby back ribs last weekend. I wrapped them at 170F IT at 3 hours and they were at 202F in just under 5 total hours. These were some really thick and meaty baby back ribs though. The stall started at 167F for these ribs at 2 hrs 45 minutes or so.

Normally I smoke normal-thickness baby-back ribs for 5 or 6 hours to get them to an IT of 202-205F to get the, fall-off-the-bone or very nearly so, ribs.

thanks, no question I'll always wrap from now on. I was kind of hoping to avoid that and it looked like it can be done on this cooker but I think it would have taken at least 2 more hours and the bottoms were already getting black.....another reason to wrap...