St. Louis ribs join the Kettle fest!

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texomakid

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I saw Heath Riles video, then I looked up Malcom Reed's video, Watch a few others (there's about 234 videos of this technique on YouTube) Monkey see ... Monkey do - Here we go! 😆

Ok, I broke down and installed a thermometer on the lid of my Kettle. You can do a lot of things without it but having a reference point on longer cooks it sure come in handy.

The charcoal crawl continues and I'm now using B & B briquettes. They are double the size of Kingsford. A very good briquette.
Y'all, I used a water pan! Malcom Reed put 2 beers in his water pan and I just consider that alcohol abuse. I'm gonna drink my beer so I put in about a 1 1/2 cups of water. Utilized 2 baskets for the charcoal and added some chunks of cherry with some Pecan chips.
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KC rubs meets St. Louis ribs - no binder and I did remove the membrane.
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1 1/2 hours @ 325° - Time to rotate the rack
Another 1 1/2 hours and IT was around 168° so I decided to wrap in foil
I added butter, a little rub, a little honey, and a little Blues Hog Competition BBQ sauce in the wrap.
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After 1 hour wrapped in foil and temp at 350°, IT was around 208° I was shooter for a lower temp but it worked out ok.
Opened the foil to let them rest.
Then I threw on the corn and Hatch Chili's (we gonna make a nice Hatch Chili street corn)
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Another chapter in the Paper Plate Chronicles

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The road goes on forever and the party never ends ...
As Matt Pittman says "I ain't mad at it" 😆
Hope everyone has an awesome Weeknd! ✌🏻
 
Awesome, you nailed that cook Randy… nicely done man! Kettle cooks are tasty!

Going to have to try hatch chili street corn… sounds real tasty!

Plating looks great to me… as my ole buddy foamheart foamheart would have said… “You even used the fine china!”

Nicely done!
 
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Looks like a winner to me! I can't imagine life without a kettle, and you obviously know how to use yours.
 
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Your ribs look fantastic!
Need to do some kettle ribs myself!
Do you have the recipe for the corn?
We eat a lot of corn & yours looks delicious!
Al
 
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Wow! Thanks for all the likes and kind words everybody (and the carousel ride!)

Smokin Okie Smokin Okie you're absolutely right, the kettle has to be the best bang for buck in backyard BBQ. Charcoal grills and camping was a big thing when I was a kid. I also cooked my first rack of spare ribs on an old cheap charcoal grill back around 1986.

SmokinAl SmokinAl That batch was very simple, 4 ears of corn grilled w/ about 1/2 block of cream cheese and fine diced Hatch Chili with a sprinkle of shredded parmesan cheese, seasoned to taste. It was fantastic and a perfect complement with the ribs. That is my wife Jana's specialty. She's makes great street corn. She also make it with diced jalapeños, real bacon bits, finely diced onions, etc.... Is great!!

It's forecast to be 106° here today (was 105° yesterday.) I'm done cooking on the kettle until it cools off. I'm getting soft in my old age 🥵

Hope everyone has a great week!
 
Nicely done Randy. Your becoming one with your kettle.

Point for sure
Chris
 
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