First ever smoke on my new stickburner!

[BuddHound]

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!

 

[Brokenhandle]

Looks great to me!

Ryan

 

[DRKsmoking]

Congrats on the first smoke and for your wife's birthday.

All looks good , and that is some fine recycling for the stack extension.

David

 

[912smoker]

Definitely a successful maiden voyage!
Great looking ribs and "happy wife....happy life !

Smoking the tips gives me an opportunity to try new rubs and flavors.

Keith

 

[mr mac]

Nicely done! I'd take part in that! I guess the invitation got lost in the mail.

I remember my first smoke.

We won't talk about that, though.

 

[JLeonard]

Great looking ribs. Looks like you did the wife right. And like the redneck work for the stack extension.

Jim

 

[clifish]

Looks great, I would be all over that. The smoke ring is more for looks anyway. What wood did you use? Cherry will bring out more red in the ribs.

 

[civilsmoker]

Very nice first cook and a perfect "reason" to break it in!

 

[normanaj]

looks great for sure!

 

[BuddHound]

Looks great, I would be all over that. The smoke ring is more for looks anyway. What wood did you use? Cherry will bring out more red in the ribs.

Smoked with Oak and a few splits of cherry from my generous neighbor.

 

[Texas Cookin']

Nice looking ribs! Congrats on the first smoke.

Fred

 

[flatbroke]

Congratulations on the first cook. Looks delicious

 

[WaccaLum]

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!

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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:
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Thanks for reading!

Looks guuuuud

 

[seenred]

If that was truly your first-ever attempt at smoking meat, you are WAY ahead of the game Brother! I'm pretty sure the first thing I ever smoked was barely edible LOL! Very nicely done!

And congrats on that new smoker - and points for the Southern Engineering LOL!

Red