Beef rib question

[ryschoo]

I picked up a couple packs of pre-cut beef ribs today

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• ryschoo
• Apr 5, 2013

I was hoping to use the 3-2-1 method on these but am worried about over cooking them due to their size (already being pre-cut and smaller
What is everyone's thoughts? Do I need to adjust the cook time to a 2-2-1 or should I be good to go? Advise?

 

[forluvofsmoke]

Ah, back ribs! Depending on the actual amount of meat on the rib bone, it can be easier to go by pull-back for smoke time, foil time etc.Smoke until you see just short of 1/4" pull-back, then foil for an hour or so and check pull-back again...foil for another 30-60 minutes depending on what you see. My hand-cut full slabs of beef backs have taken over 7 hours with straight open grate smoking, but that's a heavy slab of meat on the rib. I would figure closer to 4 hours total for the ones you have...they have a thinner layer of meat, so they  shouldn't take very long.

Eric