Trying some new ribs and 8.5 butt

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motolife313

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seen winco is selling new ribs. These are 100% natural nothing added. 4.5 pound rack kinda lean looking. Can’t beat 2.20 a pound tho and I’m injecting the butt tonight and sprinkled little rub on the ribs. Hopefully I’ll get them on early morning, going on my stick burner.
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more like 10 pounds now after injecting
 
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Thanks warren. Got them on at 9 am so I’m bumping up the heat, 250-275. I’m burning oak, apple and little black walnut. That’s a big chunck of apple in there
 
This is the white oak, the round stuff is oak but not sure what kind
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I thought right off the bat that the round stuff was Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor, which we have all over our farm as a preferred species in the program in which that the government pays us to take our river bottom out of production).
But the endgrain color stranding is so striking and broad that I think it may be a Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii). I have tried to plant some of these up around me, as the plumb-sized acorns are supposed to be the ultimate deer candy, but it hasn't done very well (we're too far north). There are also some Bur oak/swamp oak hybrids that can happen, but I'm not really sure what they look like in endgrain.

If you paint the end with a 10% solution of sodium nitrate, and it's part of the White Oak family, it will turn a deep purple color within an hour or so. If it's a red oak, not much happens.

If you know where the tree is, get a leaf or two, a picture of the bark from the bole, (that "beechy" salt and pepper flat bark is uncommon, but the bark lower down may be very different) and, even better, an acorn and I'm pretty sure I can tell you what you've got.
 
Thanks for the info. I’ve used it and it’s kinda Smokey. The trager chicken rub was way to salty on those ribs. It’s was ok on the butt. Took 1 hour per pound at 250-little bit of 275, 9.5 hours
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Going to make some sandwiches for on the boat tomorrow. Made a few slabs while the smoker was running, it’s english walnut, going after some big piece with my big saw tomorrow that will go in the cooking wood pile
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