Do you use a rib rack?

[Mister C]

Do you use a rib rack? Any pros or cons you can think of, besides the pro of the additional racks you can fit? On a kettle / SNS setup for pork ribs, I'm thinking the max you could fit on the main grate is maybe 2 racks laying down, so I'm considering buying one just to get some extra volume in there.

Cheers

[Donw]

A rib rack would help but there are other options.

[Donw]

TripleB They fold back out flat and I’ve never noticed any difference from ribs cooked flat in quality or time.

[bbqLuv]

Good idea for pellet grill too.

[Steve R.]

I've done this a few times with good results. I just try to minimize any overlap on the ends.

[realdocBBQ]

Rib racks SUCK. I've said it before, I'll say it again.


Most of them are too small, too short, not wide enough, etc. And they wanna change anywhere from $11 to like $35 for one. Useless pieces of junk, most of them.


Go to IKEA and buy these:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/variera-pot-lid-organizer-stainless-steel-70154800/

Buy two sets of those for $16 plus shipping. Now you can do 6 racks of ribs of whatever length you want, and they are tall enough to hold them upright instead of falling all over the place like most of the rib racks I have seen.

You're welcome.

Here is how they look:


This is 4 of those organizers ($32 today's pricing) holding 12 racks of ribs.



I'm still chomping at the bit for my chance to use these, though....

[realdocBBQ]

"The Duk":

[bardsleyque]

I like that, gonna have to order some!

[Sid P]

Great idea!

[dpearce]

I had a few for the Weber waaay back. They're still in the shed somewhere. It did help me get maybe 3 racks onto the 22" kettle for an offset cook, and two for my little portable barrel cooker, but they're a moot point now since I have the pit barrel. I like realdocBBQ's solution!

[LA Pork Butt]

Once! I almost never have cooked more that 2 racks at a time and I could easily do 4 flat on my Big Green Egg.

[Mister C]

Not sure I will either with any real frequency, but how to fit more ribs is an edge case always worth considering 😉

[Lynn Dollar]

When smoking on my Kettle, either the 22 or the 26 , I like to use a rib rack because it gets the ribs further away from the coal bed. The problem with a Kettle is radiant heat from the coal bed, a rib rack is one step to alleviating that. I think the ribs cook with more convection.

On Webers new Smart Ring for the Kettle, it raises the cooking grate 4" . That helps with radiant heat, a bunch.

Some have done the same by using the Roti accessory and putting 4 bolts around the top edge to hold a grate.

[Mister C]

Great info, thank you for all that