I’m lucky enough to have some really great neighbors and several of them cook outside fairly often, although not as much as most of us here probably do. I have a neighbor 2 doors down named Kristen and she has a 4 burner gas grill, not sure of the brand. Her boy friend’s name is Chris, good guy! The names have been changed to protect the innocent….
Kristen is a school teacher AND is the neighbor who was kind enough to let me keep my A/C unit on her patio during my recent patio re-tile job. I’m going to cut her some slack with this here story. 
Yesterday afternoon I saw Chris outside with the gas grill going. I walked over and said hi, asked him what they were cooking. He opened the lid and there were 2 full slabs of baby backs being incinerated on the grate, all 4 burners wide open! It was like they were cooking steaks or something quick! 😳. After my jaw got back into a speaking position I suggested he might want to turn off 3 of the burners and move the ribs over to the cool side. The ribs were, well let’s just say “generously charred” After suggesting cutting down to one burner and moving the ribs over, he did. I thought he was trying to do a low and slow rib cook on the gasser, that’s their only outdoor cooker. After politely explaining that ribs need 4-5 hours to cook and become tender he says……..”Oh they’ll be tender, Kristen boiled them first” 😳 Internally I was LMAO and I immediately thought of you guys, wishing y’all were here to witness this! It was all I could do to keep my composure.
About that time Kristen walks out with a cup of juices or something and pours it over the ribs. Chris says, “Hey honey, you boiled these ribs first didn’t you?” She says, “No I didn’t boil them, I braised them”. I didn’t ask for any details but decided to just keep quiet, for once…🥸 I asked her if they ever thought about getting a kettle grill, similar to mine. She didn’t seem too interested so I just left it at that. Anyway, I’ve decided that sometime in the next few weeks I’ll pick up a few slabs of ribs for them and smoke them on the SNS. Hopefully after tasting them, MCS will strike!
Kristen is a school teacher AND is the neighbor who was kind enough to let me keep my A/C unit on her patio during my recent patio re-tile job. I’m going to cut her some slack with this here story. Yesterday afternoon I saw Chris outside with the gas grill going. I walked over and said hi, asked him what they were cooking. He opened the lid and there were 2 full slabs of baby backs being incinerated on the grate, all 4 burners wide open! It was like they were cooking steaks or something quick! 😳. After my jaw got back into a speaking position I suggested he might want to turn off 3 of the burners and move the ribs over to the cool side. The ribs were, well let’s just say “generously charred” After suggesting cutting down to one burner and moving the ribs over, he did. I thought he was trying to do a low and slow rib cook on the gasser, that’s their only outdoor cooker. After politely explaining that ribs need 4-5 hours to cook and become tender he says……..”Oh they’ll be tender, Kristen boiled them first” 😳 Internally I was LMAO and I immediately thought of you guys, wishing y’all were here to witness this!
It was all I could do to keep my composure. About that time Kristen walks out with a cup of juices or something and pours it over the ribs. Chris says, “Hey honey, you boiled these ribs first didn’t you?” She says, “No I didn’t boil them, I braised them”.
I didn’t ask for any details but decided to just keep quiet, for once…🥸 I asked her if they ever thought about getting a kettle grill, similar to mine. She didn’t seem too interested so I just left it at that. Anyway, I’ve decided that sometime in the next few weeks I’ll pick up a few slabs of ribs for them and smoke them on the SNS. Hopefully after tasting them, MCS will strike!
Comment