Spare Ribs ala Belly-Style!

[lu1847]

Very nice Pops. Thanks for the pics. Noticed your butcher block. I have the same one. I was wondering if the top was warped on yours. Mine was.

 

[pops6927]

Yes, it was warped; I contacted the company and they replaced it, no charge, and I kept the original and made a cutting board out of it!

 

[pops6927]

Just a note: in the family picture is Nissreen, who married my son earlier in the year, now a wonderful family member!  She is fantastic!

 

[oldschoolbbq]

Really good looking Spares, I can hang in my Vetr. Chamber , Should look for some hooks . Super . . .

 smart.

Have fun and . . .

 

[bkleinsmid]

Hey Pop's........great looking ribs......and congrat's to the new family member.

A butcher buddy of mine told me a little secret about his ribs. He always hangs his because of space in his smoker and he does about 15 racks each day. He told me that he leaves the membrane on the ribs and hooks them at least two ribs in. The membrane will keep the ribs on the hook. Seems to work very well.

Brad

 

[chopsaw]

Good luck, let's see if the hooks hold or if gravity wins this round!

This thread is 13 years old .

 

[clifish]

This thread is 13 years old .

and most of the posters are no longer among us!

 

[912smoker]

And as the results are the proof !
They held

Keith

 

[SmokinEdge]

There are actually quite a few BBQ joints around the country that hang their ribs in vertical smokers. I’ve done them many times. Ribs should pass the bend test so they should not fall off the bacon hangers either.

Old post or not.

 

[mneeley490]

Great to see one of Pops threads again. Gone, but not forgotten.

 

[forktender]

There are actually quite a few BBQ joints around the country that hang their ribs in vertical smokers. I’ve done them many times. Ribs should pass the bend test so they should not fall off the bacon hangers either.

Old post or not.

Hooks were the only way to cook on barrel smokers for many yrs. it was hooks and rebar crossbars, that's dating back to the early 1970s.
The barrel smokers used on our local cattle ranches were 5' tall X 4-6' wide sections of either concrete or steel culvert, rolled over a 100% Oak wood coal in a fire pit. They used a sheet of steel or aluminum siding used as a lid, sometimes a sheet of plywood, it was very basic. And it was some of the best BBQ you could ever find around these parts. Man do I sure miss those cook outs and the longneck beers, those old cowboys sure knew how to cook, drink, and fight!!!
Today my old town is a country club town filled with yuppies or worse.
It sickens me each time I drive out to visit my parents, I really need to get out of this shithole of a State, and get back to having dirt under my feet, and the smell of cow and horse shit in the air, my body craves the way it once was out here.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Hooks were the only way to cook on barrel smokers for many yrs. it was hooks and rebar crossbars, that's dating back to the early 1970s.
The barrel smokers used on our local cattle ranches were 5' tall X 4-6' wide sections of either concrete or steel culvert, rolled over a 100% Oak wood coal in a fire pit. They used a sheet of steel or aluminum siding used as a lid, sometimes a sheet of plywood, it was very basic. And it was some of the best BBQ you could ever find around these parts. Man do I sure miss those cook outs and the longneck beers, those old cowboys sure knew how to cook, drink, and fight!!!
Today my old town is a country club town filled with yuppies or worse.
It sickens me each time I drive out to visit my parents, I really need to get out of this shithole of a State, and get back to having dirt under my feet, and the smell of cow and horse shit in the air, my body craves the way it once was out here.

Yup, sounds a lot like my upbringing and current situation. Don’t come to Colofornia.