Christmas Prime Rib

[thesavage]

10lb choice prime rib from costco, smallest they had :)
Money shot first:

5 hours at 225 on MES. Pulled at 127, held in cooler for about an hour and a half while we made the rest of the sides. Finished with a 5 minute sear per side. Used strained drippings from garlic butter rub as a finishing sauce after slicing.

Untrimmed:

1 head garlic, 2 sprigs rosemary, 3 sprigs thyme, 3 sticks butter, salt, and pepper:

Trimmed, salted, peppered, and rub applied:

After a couple hours on the MES. AMAZEN really works well, I generally keep it in this location:

with bones detached:

I will probably take the roast off at 130 next time to target closer to the medium side of medium rare. The leftovers are going towards french dip sandwiches :)

I loosely followed this recipe: https://heygrillhey.com/garlic-butter-smoked-prime-rib/ along with a lot of the great advice on here!

 

[phatbac]

I love PR and the holidays brings cheaper PR and all these pics of good smoked PR everyone is doing. this is a wonderful time of the year! you made a great PR!

Happy Smoking,
phatbac (Aaron)

 

[SmokinAl]

Your PR looks perfectly done to me!
But we like them rare around here!
Al

 

[chopsaw]

That is a thing of beauty ! I agree with Al , perfectly cooked for me .
Nice work on that .

 

[thesavage]

Thanks everyone!

I've done a PR on my offset before, it was a smaller roast-but I think it was over smoked. The beef flavor didn't stand up to the smoke flavor. This one on the MES had the perfect amount of smoke to beef ratio.

I did slice a couple of pieces and fire them on the grill to take them to medium for a couple of family members who didn't like the temp. Everyone liked it.

We had enough left overs to make french dip sandwiches:

 

[chopsaw]

I did slice a couple of pieces and fire them on the grill to take them to medium

Another thing you can do is heat a pan with beef stock , just below a simmer . Place the slices in the stock to bring the temp up some and change the color .
Good lookin sandwiches .