Howdy from Texas!
Just got a stickburner for Christmas and what better way to break it in than some ribs for my wife's birthday! Used 2 spareribs and trimmed down to St Louis cuts, but kept the tips as well. Who would throw out perfectly good meat?!
Wife is more in the camp of FOTB, so tried the 3-2-1 method for each. Also found a simple rib tips recipe from MojoBarbeque. 1 rack and all tips with Meat Church Honey Hog rub. 1 rack just simple salt and pepper. Wrapped the rubbed rack with butter, bsugar, and honey. S&P wrapped with bacon fat. Tips smoked to 160-170 and then sliced up and put into a pan with apple juice, butter, more rub and some sauce and then cooked for another hour or so. Finished off the HH rubbed rack with some sweet n spicy sauce for last 30 min.
Wow! So good! I didnt think I'd like FOTB as much as I did. Then again, I'm sure almost anything I made was bound to be good to me since it was my first time smoking anything. Lol!
Pics included of before wrap, after wrap, and finished product. Could have a better smoke ring, but they certainly tasted nice and smokey!
Bonus pic of my good ol' TX engineering! JB Welded together two 16oz beer cans in order to extend my stack down to grate level:
Thanks for reading!
Just got a stickburner for Christmas and what better way to break it in than some ribs for my wife's birthday! Used 2 spareribs and trimmed down to St Louis cuts, but kept the tips as well. Who would throw out perfectly good meat?!
Wife is more in the camp of FOTB, so tried the 3-2-1 method for each. Also found a simple rib tips recipe from MojoBarbeque. 1 rack and all tips with Meat Church Honey Hog rub. 1 rack just simple salt and pepper. Wrapped the rubbed rack with butter, bsugar, and honey. S&P wrapped with bacon fat. Tips smoked to 160-170 and then sliced up and put into a pan with apple juice, butter, more rub and some sauce and then cooked for another hour or so. Finished off the HH rubbed rack with some sweet n spicy sauce for last 30 min.
Wow! So good! I didnt think I'd like FOTB as much as I did. Then again, I'm sure almost anything I made was bound to be good to me since it was my first time smoking anything. Lol!
Pics included of before wrap, after wrap, and finished product. Could have a better smoke ring, but they certainly tasted nice and smokey!




Bonus pic of my good ol' TX engineering! JB Welded together two 16oz beer cans in order to extend my stack down to grate level:

Thanks for reading!