I have smoked many a rack of spare ribs on my PBC. It is indeed a rib machine! I have never, ever smoked any baby backs period, but that is about to change. Carol (wife) and I went to the local NY Butcher Shop a few days ago and purchased two racks of BB ribs for me to smoke for Easter dinner. Due to the horrible weather across the south yesterday, we ate left over Stuffed peppers yesterday and I plan to put the ribs on for tonight in a little while.
These buggers are huge! I forgot to count the rib bones before starting this post, but I will definitely have to cut the racks in half to keep the bottom of the hung racks from being in the fire below! They are also thicker and meatier than spare ribs.
I have read somewhere that BB's tend to cook in a shorter period of time than spare ribs, so my question is is that true? I will cook until probe tender, bones are pulling back and do the bend test before I call them done, but the question remains...........if my spare ribs on PBC tend to take 4 to 4.5 hrs, what are the BB's likely to take?
These buggers are huge! I forgot to count the rib bones before starting this post, but I will definitely have to cut the racks in half to keep the bottom of the hung racks from being in the fire below! They are also thicker and meatier than spare ribs.
I have read somewhere that BB's tend to cook in a shorter period of time than spare ribs, so my question is is that true? I will cook until probe tender, bones are pulling back and do the bend test before I call them done, but the question remains...........if my spare ribs on PBC tend to take 4 to 4.5 hrs, what are the BB's likely to take?
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