Ribs Second Attempt

Here's my second attempt at the ribs. They turned out much better than the first attempt. I just lightly seasoned these. I smoke these for 3 hours, then foiled for an hour, and then brought up egg to grilling temps for about another hour.

They aren't perfect, but I'm still practicing. They were pretty good tho, just didn't look as good as I was hoping.

Here they are, I trimmed the ribs Saint Louis style and then rubbed each one lightly. One I did with only salt and pepper, the other one I did with a little rub I made up.

Here they are on the egg, notice I had to roll them and pin them with a skewer. I think a rib rack is in my immediate future. Although this worked pretty well. I was worried that they may be all funky when I foiled them, but they straightened out just fine. Those other pieces of meat are some of the trimmings from the ribs. You have to work at them a little bit, but there is some decent meat in there.

Here's the finished product, not the best looking, but they tasted pretty good. I've still got a lot of work to do before I get the style ribs I'm looking for. As for the meat they were really tender, maybe a bit too tender, the bones were just falling off of them when I had them on the grill.

Oh well, practice makes perfect, and I at least can eat my mistakes..hehe

Chase cleaned up the bones that dropped on the ground, he's good to have around for just such emergencies...hehe

Smokin',

The Alfster