A Case For Boiling/Steaming Ribs?

[Panhead John]

Next thing ya know, they’ll tell us people actually put beans in chili…😳

[ecowper]

you'd be amazed what Texans do to chowder

[Johnny Booth]

Yep. I can see the recipe now.
Cover ribs in 5 lbs salt.
Rinse and boil until meat falls off the bone.
Add boiled meat and beans to chili sauce. 😁

[Smoker_Boy]

Boil crawdads and suck the stuff out of the heads.

[klflowers]

I got a little dizzy and short of breath when I saw the title of this thread. I have some relatives out there, I thought about enlisting them to check on you. Then I looked at the recipe and thought well...

[ecowper]

I, for one, am very thankful that SheilaAnn didn't ask us what we put in Chili.

[SheilaAnn]

ecowper that’s cuz she knows better! 😆😆😆

[jecucolo]

Add beer can chicken to the brouhaha, fracas and donnybrook list!

[Oak Smoke]

I’ll make beer can anytime I get the chance. I love it. I leave the nasty cans with as much liquid in them as I can out at the fence. Our old big opossum will lick the cans clean and then chew holes in them.

[Bkhuna]

Maybe start out with a wee kerfuffle and see how that goes.

[JeffJ]

I remember an episode of Diners, Drive ins and Dives where the restaurant boiled their ribs in (from memory) Coca Cola. Guy said they were surprisingly good.

[Oak Smoke]

Bkhuna Dad was quite the hog trapper. We had a lot of free pork. It was so good. We still have the old pecan orchard where he trapped years ago. Those pigs have been wild since well before the new breeds of pigs came along. I need to harvest one to see if they are as good as the heritage pork is now. The last time I was there I saw 30 or so pigs in one afternoon.

[Bkhuna]

Oak Smoke I can't imaging how much better pigs that foraged for pecans tasted then the ones that live in the marshes and eat whatever they get in to. Think Spanish Jamon Iberico.

If there are enough of them, many it would make a good commercial endeavor. Wild pigs can't be killed fast enough in many parts of the country.

[Purc]

I too remember a DDD where Guy liked the boiled ribs.

[Oak Smoke]

Bkhuna My dad made quite the commercial operation out of it the last 5 years before he broke a leg and ended up in the nursing home. Dad built 15, 4x8 live traps and put them in our orchard and every where else anyone would let him. He contracted to sell all the pigs he trapped to a company in Oklahoma City for 50 cents a pound, They even agreed to come get the pigs out of the large pen dad built at his house. They had to weigh 50 pounds or more in order to sell them. That old man averaged selling 1400 pigs a year the last 4 years he trapped. That area is so remote that I’m sure they could still be trapped in large numbers there. I’ve taken several people hunting there. Oklahoma hates them so much that you don’t need a hunting license to hunt them even if you’re from out of state. The only time there are restrictions on hunting them is during rifle hunting season for deer.

[HawkerXP]

Let us not forget the "Preburn your wood" fracas.

[HawkerXP]

oops..... just saw yours texastweeter

[texastweeter]

That's what SHE said

[MarkN]

Just steam them in the instant pot, under pressure. Fall off the bone results for sure I bet!

I wasn't aware that boiling and steaming were the same thing. I've never tried boiling ribs but when I have been in a hurry I have steamed them (i.e. not under water) in an Instant Pot and they were just fine. I've done them sous vide too, following up with a 20-30 minute smoke. That works too if you want to make them in advance and don't have time to smoke 'em.

If it tastes good, I don't care how you did it.

[texastweeter]

GET YOUR LOGIC AND LEVEL HEADEDNESS OUTTA HERE!!! loljk