My family is growing, and my smoker is not, so I need to find a way of adding more food to my smoker. I have a Pit Boss Ranch Hand, it has I think, 440 sq. inches of cooking surface. I can put a whole slab of spare ribs on it and nothing else. My family can currently eat though about 90 - 95% of a slab of spare ribs, that will soon be 100%.
Is there a rib rack that can hold 2+ spare ribs? I have been looking on Amazon, and all the ones I've seen look like they can hold 2 racks of baby backs if they are cut in half. Is this the case, or am I just looking in the wrong place? Any help would be appreciated.
Are you talking about full spare ribs or trimmed spares (aka 'St Louis' ribs)? If talking about trimmed, I would imagine that most racks that can handle back ribs would also work with trimmed spares. I've got the Weber rack, and used it with 3 racks of trimmed spares just last weekend. If you are referring to full, untrimmed spares, yeah, I could see how most racks would be too small.
I had one like this and used it with Okie Joe for years. Trick is getting the size you need and enough space under the rack.
Mine had fixed legs with ~7 inches of clearance​​
I have a couple of the older style Webers I’ve used for slab of backs for years to great success putting 3 slabs on a 22 kettle but they are pretty short and don’t hold spares well. I have used them to do 2 racks of spares on a 22 but it’s far from ideal.
Last edited by CHNeal; October 10, 2022, 07:22 AM.
7.99 per set, 2 sets, expandable/collapsible and they work great. I tried 3 or 4 commercial rib racks, none of them worked well - they weren't tall enough (especially for full spares!) nor wide enough. I found my ribs flopped all over and looked like this:
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