Did a little mid-week cook. I found some nice spare ribs at my local restaurant outlet store (where only businesses are allowed to shop). Good thing I'm running a bbq business
Anywho, the porcine creatures have been fed food based on rape seeds, and it does make a difference. A bit richer flavor.
So I trimmed them up St Louis style, cutting away the cartilage where the ribs attach to the sternum.
I then applied my KC Royale rub and fired up the Big Green Egg. I haven't used it in a while, so it was a fun cook. I tried out a new brand of charcoal from Holland - it's premium oak lump charcoal. I'm impressed with it, very clean burn, gentle flavors, and zero visible smoke. Good stuff.
After 3 hours of smoking them unwrapped I started spritzing with conc. apple juice, then wrapped in butcher's paper. I cooked them for 50 minutes wrapped, then unwrapped and kept spritzing. I had them on for another hour before the bend test told me they were done.
Super happy with the bark on these, just perfect. Gonna smoke some more ribs this weekend.
The charcoal
Here's the ribs, trimmed and rubbed
The wrapped ribs on my BGE
The final product. Looking good.
Anywho, the porcine creatures have been fed food based on rape seeds, and it does make a difference. A bit richer flavor.
So I trimmed them up St Louis style, cutting away the cartilage where the ribs attach to the sternum.
I then applied my KC Royale rub and fired up the Big Green Egg. I haven't used it in a while, so it was a fun cook. I tried out a new brand of charcoal from Holland - it's premium oak lump charcoal. I'm impressed with it, very clean burn, gentle flavors, and zero visible smoke. Good stuff.
After 3 hours of smoking them unwrapped I started spritzing with conc. apple juice, then wrapped in butcher's paper. I cooked them for 50 minutes wrapped, then unwrapped and kept spritzing. I had them on for another hour before the bend test told me they were done.
Super happy with the bark on these, just perfect. Gonna smoke some more ribs this weekend.
The charcoal
Here's the ribs, trimmed and rubbed
The wrapped ribs on my BGE
The final product. Looking good.
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