BBQ ribs in the oven?

[bbqLuv]

May be really tasty but is it BBQ
The Best Oven Roasted BBQ Ribs for 4th of July! | Chef Jean-Pierre - YouTube

[Bkhuna]

I grew up in the deep South. With roots in rural SE Georgia I was exposed at an early age to African-American food. Whites, blacks, we all ate what is called Soul food but in reality it was just country food. It's pretty much the same today.

One thing about soul food is that there are ribs and then there is bbq. Most meat and threes have ribs on the menu during the week and they are oven cooked, but on the weekend, the men folk show up and set up cookers out back or in the parking lot and only then does the restaurant advertise BBQ ribs. I stopped being a rib purist a long time ago. Oven ribs can be mighty tasty. They aren't BBQ but they are mighty tasty and have a place on my table.

[Purc]

I spent most of my life living in the Southeast and ate at many local meat and three restaurants with ribs as a special. Agree oven ribs were good but different.

[Mosca]

Some of the best ribs I’ve ever had were Puerto Rican ribs from a crock pot.

[Jfrosty27]

Nothing wrong with oven cooked ribs. Sure they’re not bbq, but so what? Good food is all I need. 👍👌

[WillTravelForFood]

Eventually we will try the Oven Ribs recipe from the AR free site. The text suggests they're close to outside-cooked.

[jfmorris]

I would do oven cooked ribs if the weather just did not permit me to use the smoker at all. Or if I just didn't and couldn't have a smoker.

I've got a friend at church who keeps tagging me on his Facebook photos for his oven roasted "BBQ" Boston butts. I actually smoked and took butts over there not once but twice, pulling them on a cutting board in his backyard for a get-together, and he was mesmerized by the process, but apparently not enough to go get a grill or smoker, haha. He's a transplant from California who only has a gas grill and apparently has only ever grilled stuff, never smoked stuff, during his 65+ years out there, before retiring to Alabama to enjoy our BBQ and much lower cost of living. So I guess if you don't have a smoker at all, oven roasted ribs and pulled pork are better than none?

[ofelles]

Easy Jim, a few Californians do have grills and smokers......maybe not many, but a few 😋

[jfmorris]

ofelles I was actually shocked when I was at his house for lunch on a Sunday, as he actually came from a more rural area of California (Grass Valley), and I was expecting Santa Maria grills and tri-tip. We had chicken salad or something like that which his wife made, haha... all he had in the backyard was a neglected looking Charbroil gas grill...

[ofelles]

That's not far from Sacramento. about 80 miles NE from me.

[hoovarmin]

They aren't BBQ because they aren't cooked with smoke, but you can make some tasty ribs in the oven.

[Texas Larry]

Here’s an early Alton Brown version of oven ribs. He makes a point to say at the end, “I never used the word barbecue.”😆

https://youtu.be/zQ2nL7VGOFs

[Murdy]

Grew up eating my Grandmother's "BBQ Ribs," which were baby-backs that came out of an oven and were covered with Open Pit. They were enjoyable. I imagine she called them BBQ because they were covered with BBQ sauce. Gram was a north-Wisconsin Czech. Sometimes, she'd do the same thing with country-style ribs (for cost I think), though more often they'd end up in sauerkraut and be served with baking-powder dumplings.

[jfmorris]

I think you hit the nail on the head here. Most folks out there seem to think it is BBQ sauce that makes something "BBQ". We may know better, but many don't...

[SheilaAnn]

Murdy beat me to it. Spare ribs braised with sauerkraut and served with bohemian bread dumplings. We are polish and Lithuanian.

And y’all have seen me make this several times: https://www.seriouseats.com/sriracha...noodles-recipe

[WillTravelForFood]

Here’s an early Alton Brown version of oven ribs. He makes a point to say at the end, “I never used the word barbecue.”😆
https://youtu.be/zQ2nL7VGOFs

This is the recipe that beat Alton’s in a taste test. We do like Alton, tho.

https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/pork-ribs-recipes/smoky-indoor-ribs-recipe/

[Texas Larry]

I never actually tried Alton’s. With the blasting heat we’re under right now AR indoor ribs may be the way to go this year.