Pro's and Con's to smoking BB ribs vs. Spare ribs

[Cookin_Grillin_Smokin]

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To clarify this discussion, you need to know where both are from. The 'baby back' ribs are from the rib end and center cut chops area, and the spareribs are off the belly below the rib end/center cut sections. The meat is all the same on both. The Baby backs are from boning out whole loins whereas the spareribs are removed from the belly. Country Style comes from the shoulder blade roast, the Rib End roast and the Loin End roast. You can use the center cut for country style but they are much drier.

Man this is very helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to show me this!!!

 

[Bearcarver]

Man this is very helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to show me this!!!

Pops is a Handy guy to have around!!
He has a whole bag of tricks like that.
Like.

Bear

 

[SonnyE]

Until I took a close look at Pops post, I was not aware that pigs had two butts. Forward AND aft. :confused:
Is that like a chicken that has 3 breasts? o_O

 

[Cookin_Grillin_Smokin]

Got the spares rubbed and ready to smoke in the morning! Thank you to everyone for the advice and knowledge, smoking food is my passion and this will help me continue to improve :)

 

[wimpy69]

Oh such a beautiful thing on a sunday morn.

 

[Bearcarver]

Until I took a close look at Pops post, I was not aware that pigs had two butts. Forward AND aft. :confused:
Is that like a chicken that has 3 breasts? o_O

Casks or barrels called butts, it's the way it was packed and shipped. As stated from the National Pork Board:

"In pre-revolutionary New England and into the Revolutionary War, some pork cuts (not those highly valued, or "high on the hog," like loin and ham) were packed into casks or barrels (also known as "butts") for storage and shipment. The way the hog shoulder was cut in the Boston area became known in other regions as "Boston Butt." This name stuck, and today "Boston Butt" is called that almost everywhere in the US,… except in Boston.


Bear

 

[SonnyE]

Casks or barrels called butts, it's the way it was packed and shipped. As stated from the National Pork Board:

"In pre-revolutionary New England and into the Revolutionary War, some pork cuts (not those highly valued, or "high on the hog," like loin and ham) were packed into casks or barrels (also known as "butts") for storage and shipment. The way the hog shoulder was cut in the Boston area became known in other regions as "Boston Butt." This name stuck, and today "Boston Butt" is called that almost everywhere in the US,… except in Boston.


Bear

Thanks Bear! Great explanation of why the fore shoulder would be labeled a butt.

At one point in my Childhood, we had a family move in next door. They were from Boston, and the Dad worked at JPL. (Jet Propulsion Laboratories. NASA stuff)
While two out of their 3 kids were good friends, the parents were, generally, Boston Butts....
The Daughter (eldest of the 3 kids) was well on her way to being Butt as well. Stuck up was a gross understatement.

Ah, the chit you remember from childhood.... LOL!

Boston Butts....