Wow, this weekend was absolutely beautiful in Central Virginia!!!
Because the weather was PERFECT I absolutely could not pass up the opportunity to smoke some baby backs!
Here is my q-view, I hope you enjoy.
I went to Sam's Club and picked up a pack of ribs. The problem with this is that you can only see the front of the first rack and the back of the bottom rack. They turned out great, but I don't like not knowing what the ribs look like all over....
We have an island in the kitchen with a nice granite top. I stretch plastic wrap over the top of the island then pull the silver skin, apply a little mustard, and then add my rub. After that I wrap the ribs in the plastic wrap, then in foil and they go in the fridge overnight to soak up that wonderful rub.
The next morning, T-man (my youngest son) and I put 5 racks of ribs on the WSM. He is convinced that we will open a BBQ restaurant in the next few years so he really gets into the whole scene.
Ah, the thin-blue-smoke! I know, it's a little hard to see - click on the photo and the TBS is perfectly clear.
I couldn't find any RO lump charcoal!!!! The only thing two different Wal-Marts had on the shelf was match light (that stuff should be outlawed!), so I used some Mr. Stubbs all natural for the main fuel and hickory and cherry wood for smoking the ribs.
After two hours on the smoker it was time to foil those bad boys! I wanted to try something I had seen recently so on one piece of foil I spread some brown sugar, drizzled a little honey, and then laid down six pats of butter.
Wrapping the ribs. These three racks had a little different rub - I have some members of my tribe that don't care for the all the spices that I personally like in a rib rub, so I modified my recipe slightly to suit their taste.
These two racks (though you cannot tell by looking) have my standard spicy rub, which really isn't all that spicy in my opinion.
After being on the smoker at about 225 - 230 for about 1-1/2 hours I pulled the ribs off to remove them from the foil.
Look at all that beautiful juice!!!!
This is the rack with the brown sugar - now, I have some brown sugar in my rub so the wife did not like this idea of adding more brown sugar and honey! She said the ribs would be too sweet, but they were not. They were awesome and the first rack gone...
Okay, so out of the foil and back on the smoker for another 1-1/2 hours at the aforementioned temperatures.
We go a little busy eating and my friend brought over some home made Sambuca, which we sampled liberally...so I almost forgot to take finished product pictures - kinda surprised these turned out at all. Pay no attention to the date in the right hand corner - not sure what happened there.
We got a nice smoke ring and some lovely bark on the ribs. They were awesome, tender, juicy, perfect. No one even wanted sauce.
Notice the fancy china...lol.
That's it folks. I hope you enjoyed my q-view.
One final note: my mother-in-law gave me an early birthday present...a Master Built electric smoker! How awesome is that?
I still plan on purchasing another WSM but I love the idea of the Master Built electric.
Have a good one, and great smoking everyone.
Bill
Because the weather was PERFECT I absolutely could not pass up the opportunity to smoke some baby backs!
Here is my q-view, I hope you enjoy.
I went to Sam's Club and picked up a pack of ribs. The problem with this is that you can only see the front of the first rack and the back of the bottom rack. They turned out great, but I don't like not knowing what the ribs look like all over....
We have an island in the kitchen with a nice granite top. I stretch plastic wrap over the top of the island then pull the silver skin, apply a little mustard, and then add my rub. After that I wrap the ribs in the plastic wrap, then in foil and they go in the fridge overnight to soak up that wonderful rub.
The next morning, T-man (my youngest son) and I put 5 racks of ribs on the WSM. He is convinced that we will open a BBQ restaurant in the next few years so he really gets into the whole scene.
Ah, the thin-blue-smoke! I know, it's a little hard to see - click on the photo and the TBS is perfectly clear.
I couldn't find any RO lump charcoal!!!! The only thing two different Wal-Marts had on the shelf was match light (that stuff should be outlawed!), so I used some Mr. Stubbs all natural for the main fuel and hickory and cherry wood for smoking the ribs.
After two hours on the smoker it was time to foil those bad boys! I wanted to try something I had seen recently so on one piece of foil I spread some brown sugar, drizzled a little honey, and then laid down six pats of butter.
Wrapping the ribs. These three racks had a little different rub - I have some members of my tribe that don't care for the all the spices that I personally like in a rib rub, so I modified my recipe slightly to suit their taste.
These two racks (though you cannot tell by looking) have my standard spicy rub, which really isn't all that spicy in my opinion.
After being on the smoker at about 225 - 230 for about 1-1/2 hours I pulled the ribs off to remove them from the foil.
Look at all that beautiful juice!!!!
This is the rack with the brown sugar - now, I have some brown sugar in my rub so the wife did not like this idea of adding more brown sugar and honey! She said the ribs would be too sweet, but they were not. They were awesome and the first rack gone...
Okay, so out of the foil and back on the smoker for another 1-1/2 hours at the aforementioned temperatures.
We go a little busy eating and my friend brought over some home made Sambuca, which we sampled liberally...so I almost forgot to take finished product pictures - kinda surprised these turned out at all. Pay no attention to the date in the right hand corner - not sure what happened there.
We got a nice smoke ring and some lovely bark on the ribs. They were awesome, tender, juicy, perfect. No one even wanted sauce.
Notice the fancy china...lol.
That's it folks. I hope you enjoyed my q-view.
One final note: my mother-in-law gave me an early birthday present...a Master Built electric smoker! How awesome is that?
I still plan on purchasing another WSM but I love the idea of the Master Built electric.
Have a good one, and great smoking everyone.
Bill
