Smoked English cut beef short ribs.

[james1970]

Hello everyone out there in Weber Smokey Mountain land and Smoking Meats Forums,

Today I smoked English cut beef short ribs in my WSM.

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• james1970
• Jan 13, 2017

I washed them down with distilled white vinegar before seasoning them.

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• james1970
• Jan 13, 2017

I seasoned them with Kosher salt, Coarse ground black pepper, granulated garlic, granulated onion, and espresso coffee!!! Yum!

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• james1970
• Jan 13, 2017

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• james1970
• Jan 13, 2017

Then I cooked them in my WSM at 250 F using Kingsford charcoal and Hickory wood chunks. After about 6 hours my temperature probe slid into them like room temperature butter!! Approximately 208 F. They had a nice smoke ring and tasted Delicious!

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• james1970
• Jan 13, 2017

 

[b-one]

Looks tasty, any special reason for the vinegar bath?

 

[noboundaries]

Phenomenal looking beef ribs! 

Where'd you buy short ribs like that?

 

[james1970]

Hello b-one,

The reason I use the vinegar bath is one it kills all the bad little critters that might be on the meat from processing, and two it works as a great binder and gives good flavor

. It is an old school bbq thing.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Tasty looking ribs!

The vinegar wash is an old school butcher/grocer thing too. Work for a guy that said they'd wash the older pork cuts in vinegar then put them back in the case.

 

[james1970]

Hello Noboundaries,

I bought these Short Ribs at R & R meats which is a local meat and seafood  market and wholesale  company here in The Redding California area.

 

[SmokinAl]

They look fantastic!

Well done!

Al

 

[james1970]

Thank you SmokinAl.

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply back to you, but the browser I was using kept giving me a JAVA script error every time I tried to reply to any responses on this forum. Fixed now!!

This was not my first attempt at short ribs. I posted a few months ago some short ribs I did after making multiple Modifications to my WSM.

Here is a picture of those short ribs along with some of the modifications from back in April of last year.

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• james1970
• Jun 11, 2016

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• Jun 11, 2016

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I don't really need them, because the WSM is pretty much set and leave all on its own, but I love them anyway!

 

[james1970]

Hello dirtsailor2003,

I learned the vinegar thing from an old friend, whom I used to work for in his steakhouse BBQ restaurant several years ago.

He was really old school, and said the vinegar acted as a disinfectant. He also said it added to the flavor profile, and  it helped the seasoning rubs and marinades penetrate better. I could, and have tried to science the heck out of this theory!!