Second attempt: long story short: looked a lot better! but dry as a bone
Bought two slabs of complete ribs in Germany. Had one slab cut in two and left one slab as it was. As i didn't know what was preferable at that time. I do know now. When they cut it you end up with one slab of spareribs and a slab of rib ends.
This is how it looked:
after i cleaned it a bit and removed the membrane i rubbed them with Magic Dust.
I fired up the smoker with one chimney of hot briqs and i had 1 chimney of unlit briq in the firebox already
It took me quite a while before i had a stable fire going so i will take that into account for the next time as it took me about an hour and a half
In the beginning it looked like i had a very equal temp on both sides of the CC but after an hour or two i had about 40 degrees difference. I had a waterpan installed on the hot side but that didnt make a big difference in the end
At least i was able to control temp much better then the previous cook. I didnt have it shooting towards the 400 degree mark. I actually had problems keeping it "warm enough" as i really had difficulties getting it at 250 {which wasnt even necesary i found out later).
Anyway after a while i had it stable and it was a beautiful day so i was really enjoying myself!
After the first three hours i was ready to wrap them in foil. I thought they looked really good so far. But i was very surprised to see the bottom of the left slab burned! Eventhough i had waterpans installed on the hot side. How could this have happened? Taking that into consideration i will probably never be able to cook 5 or 6 ribs at the same time if the hot side is just too hot
Anyway, this is how they looked after three hours prior to wrapping:
Got the feeling already that they did look a bit dry....and i did spray them every 40 minutes.
left them in foil with appeljuice for one hour. Then i applied homemade bbq sauce and cooked them for 40 more minutes.
Unfortunately no picture of the final product as something went wrong with my phone :(
Overall: They looked great but were extremely dry. But when i looked past the dryeness....the taste was really good so if i can get them to be tender and juicy the next time i am sure they will be great.
I think they were a bit thin and thats why they turned out dry.
Next time i will use a target temp of no higher then 200 degrees with these ribs.
Anyhow i had great fun! And as i always say you can read all you want but you learn best by doing.
I'll keep you guys posted of my next try :)
