Thin Spare Ribs

[hilltoppernole]

I won a hog in a raffle a few months. One pack of very thin spare ribs came with it. Any tips on how to cook these? Figure if I cooked them like normal would turn them into jerkey.

 

[tallbm]

Hi there and welcome!
I've had great success with lean feral hog ribs with the following approach.

I put a rack in an oven roasting pan and the ribs in the rack. This way the ribs are not laying directly in the pan.
I then put water in the pan about 1.5 inches high.
I season the ribs and put them on the rack.
I cover the ribs and top of the pan with foil very tightly so not much steak can escape.
I put in the oven at like 325F until the ribs get soft. They will never be dry this way.
When the ribs are soft and almost done I take them and throw them on my gas grill and finish them on a high heat.

This approach will keep your ribs cooked and soft without drying out. The grilling at the end really turns them into a grilled ribs that you would never guess were cooked up in an oven.

Here is a whole rack of ribs with backstrap on top from about a 60 pound feral hog that I did this way. I could have put more char on them but they were fine. As you can see by the size of the ribs compared to the largest stove burner the ribs were not very big and easily prone to drying out but no such thing happened :)