rib hooks

[ralphed]

Do you have to use more than 1 per rib rack? I want to hang some and was thinking that I have to chain a couple together and support the ribs at a couple points to keep the ribs from falling apart.

thanks all,

ralphed

 

[so ms smoker]

  Hi ralphed, just hang them so they don't touch

  Mike

 

[palladini]

Hang ribs? 

I use rib racks in my MES.  Made by Masterbuilt, they each hold 5 halved ribs (St Louis Cut).  They do not fall apart that way

 

[padronman]

 
Hang ribs? 

I use rib racks in my MES.  Made by Masterbuilt, they each hold 5 halved ribs (St Louis Cut).  They do not fall apart that way

I agree with the above statement.  If you "hang" ribs I think you would risk them getting tender and falling to the bottom of your smoker.  Use rib racks or the racks your smoker came with.

 

[ralphed]

I've been using the supplied shelves and thinking of getting a rib rack or 2. Something to increase capacity of my ST1400.

I was worried about them falling apart if I hang them.

But I have some 316Lss TIG wire that would make good strong hooks.....

Thanks all,

ralphed

 

[genek]

 I think these came out ok when I did them last April.

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• genek
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I've got a small smoker and I hang a lot of things, pastrami, bacon and others to get more into the smoker.

GeneK

 

[ralphed]

Those are some pretty serious meat hooks!

Thanks for the pics.

ralphed

 

[genek]

They are sold as bacon hooks. Since I have a Smoke Hollow vertical propane smoker. It is only 15 or 16 inches wide by about 14 inches deep. I think I got these from Butcher and Packer, just search for bacon hooks. Mine are 9 inches wide.

I put ribs on the hooks with the membrane toward the hook and the points coming out the meat side. I don't remove the membrane on my ribs because I grew up liking to chew it off the ribs.

GeneK

 

[palladini]

 
They are sold as bacon hooks. Since I have a Smoke Hollow vertical propane smoker. It is only 15 or 16 inches wide by about 14 inches deep. I think I got these from Butcher and Packer, just search for bacon hooks. Mine are 9 inches wide.

I put ribs on the hooks with the membrane toward the hook and the points coming out the meat side. I don't remove the membrane on my ribs because I grew up liking to chew it off the ribs.

GeneK

You, Gene, do it as you need to, I will do it as I want to, anybody else can do it as they want to, that is the beauty of this forum, we can get on here and ask a question or show our ways of doing things.  You have a small smoker, mine is slightly larger.  This is called Life.  Rock on, if the ribs taste good, enjoy them!