It's a quick watch and very clear. I probably will never buy St. Louis cut ribs again, now that I see how easy it is to trim a whole spare.....and whole spares are about half the price of St. Louis cut!
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I started buying whole spares, which I can generally get for anywhere from $1.29 to $1.59 a lb. Then I trim them and end up with SLC ribs, rib tips, and the rib sternum. Two slabs of spares give me 3 meals and the price is around $15.00
- 2x SLC ribs - works for us and our neighbors on a saturday
- rib tips from two racks works for my wife and I
- 2x rib sternums make a great pot of drunken beans
It's not hard to trim spares to St. Louis cut, but does take me a few minutes per rack of ribs. And I am always left with all these scraps I don't know what to do with! If I have space, I smoke the flap meat and rib tips. Right now I have two zip lock bags full of those trimmings sitting in the freezer, from the last time I smoked 4 racks of ribs.
I always am left wondering if I really got a deal over buying the pre-cut SLC ribs, since I feel like I am tossing several pounds of scrap that are not part of what I am cooking.
personally, I like some smoke on there to add to the beans. But if I'm in a hurry on a saturday, I just sear the trimmings in some bacon fat and call it good
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Like ecowper , I buy full spares when I can find them, and use the trimmings for tips and other meals. But it’s hard to find them these days, everyone is selling semi-St Louis racks, they have the tips, flaps, and ends, but not the sternum.
I tend to buy full spares and cut them down. I do cook the rib tips too. The diaphragm flap I cook and have a mid-cook snack (cooks bonus). May try a brief smoke on the rib tips and add them to beans one of these days.
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