How do you like ribs cooked?

[debm55]

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Slow cooked in a smoker.

A good spice rub beforehand and afterward covered in a good bbq sauce, but not too much!

[debm55]

17. Yum

[Lunabell]

2. BBQ!

Smoked and grilled. With potato salad, baked beans and collard greens. Mmm

[debm55]

18. Sounds great.

[RoadRunner]

3. By someone else

Preferably someone who knows what they’re doing.

[debm55]

19. Me too

[murielm99]

53. Same here.

I never seem to get them right.

[Effete Snob]

4. Instant pot

And, no, I'm not kidding.

[FarPoint]

10. This is my choice as well....

I use this recipe from YouTuber..."A Mindful Mom" ..... Oh, I use Apple Cider verses apple juice...use it to make my sauce then...

&ab_channel=AMindFullMom

[Effete Snob]

11. It's easy to go from frozen

I have to remember to take the membrane off before I freeze them, but overall I like things that I can turn on, do their thing, and if I'm abducted by aliens in the meantime my house won't burn down.

[FarPoint]

13. I was very please...impressed with using the Instant Pot.

This chef/lady explains thing so clearly too...

[debm55]

20. Is that a crock pot?

[Effete Snob]

26. No, it's a pressure cooker with a timer built in

[debm55]

27. I have never used one, When I was young, I remember when the tops exploding off,

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[Effete Snob]

28. Yep

An instant pot is an idiot-proof pressure cooker

[debm55]

29. Might go our to WalMart and get one tomorrow. Is there a site with recipes for that particular

Instant Pot?

[Effete Snob]

32. I primarily Google "instant pot (whatever)"

Among their principal useful functions is the ability to go from dry chick peas to cooked in around 40 minutes without soaking them. I could go on at length about various beans but I am not an “I might want beans tomorrow so I will soak them tonight” kind of person.

There are a lot of recipes, but there are very few good resources to help understand pressure cooking in an intuitive way. There are a lot of recipes which do work better with other methods, but I like the failsafe operation. It’s contained, it’s on a timer, nothing is going to burn, catch fire, or boil over.

The only significant decision is size. I have an eight quart, but typically cook things in this:



…so I can cook frozen chicken breasts or thighs with seasoning in one and brown rice in the other, for example. (Or include jerk seasoning with that chicken, and rice & beans in the other)

[debm55]

39. Thank you

[malthaussen]

38. Yep, that's the way my SIL makes them.

She's also my landlord, we have ribs about every two weeks.

There are plenty of smokehouses around if I want a different version.

-- Mal

[czarjak]

5. Well.

[The Blue Flower]

6. Slow roasted

nt

[debm55]

21. yes

[BlueTsunami2018]

7. Smoked low and slow.

With a bit of pull when you bite in.

[debm55]

22. I like mine so soft they sort of pull away on their own.

[Tom Kitten]

8. Baby Back Ribs

I put on a spice rub and slow cook in oven several hours then add a little bbq sauce and broil for about ten minutes. And yes, serve with potato salad, bbq beans and some sort of bitter greens.

Country style pork ribs I prefer to grill so the drippings smoke and add to the flavor. ( I don't have a smoker)
Secret rub ingredient: caraway seeds! They transform the flavor of the ribs.

[debm55]

23. Tom. that sounds delicious.

[Tom Kitten]

45. Yes it does

I got hungry writing that yesterday so I went shopping last night and bought a 3 1/2 lb rack of St Louis style ribs for Sunday dinner! I'll do the slow cook in the oven method again. My indoor grill is too small!



It's thirty years old and still works great! They stopped making them years ago for some reason.

[iscooterliberally]

9. I found a recipe online that I like called Last Meal Ribs

I have a Weber smoker that I use. It takes about 6 hours though, but it's well worth it. Here's a link:

https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/pork-ribs-recipes/amazing-ribs-defined/

[debm55]

31. Thanks for the link and recipe.

[catbyte]

12. For those without access to a grill or smoker, these are surprisingly great.

[rubbersole]

14. I'm going to try this.

Thanks!

[catbyte]

15. They're really good. I cut back on the salt (used 2 tsp) but otherwise followed the recipe.

[catbyte]

33. Here's a link to the written recipe:

https://www.allrecipes.com/cherry-cola-ribs-recipe-7547750

[debm55]

24. I use regular cola on mine. Yum

[debm55]

30. Thank you for the link to the recipe.

[gibraltar72]

16. Instant pot first finish in oven.

[pansypoo53219]

34. if i made some, slow cooked w/ a sweet + saur sauce, or make my great-aunt's ribs w/ sauerkraut.

but w/ added br sugar, or bavarian kraut. i hate kraut, but carmelized w/ pork.....

i hate smoke. fire good, smoke blegh.

[debm55]

40. Thanks

[pansypoo53219]

47. can use pork chops or fatty pork best. reheat leftovers in cast iron, add more br sugar + fry in

down + kraut like candy. I HATE KRAUT, except this way.

[debm55]

49. Thanks pansypoo53219

[LuvLoogie]

35. A few ways.

Wood/charcoal smoked/grilled

Browned and braised with potatoes carrots onions and Sauer kraut

Included in carnitas

Braised in salsa verde or Chile guajillo

[debm55]

41. thanks

[Emile]

36. Slathered in barbecue sauce and on a charcoal grill.

[debm55]

42. yum

[malthaussen]

37. The way Fred Flintstone gets them in the opening credits. n/t

[debm55]

43. hahaha

[thatcrowwoman]

44. Home Smoked over apple/mesquite/hickory depending on SmokeMaster's choice.

I married a man who loves to cook and smoke and bake pizza and all kinds of pies.
I love to bake breads and cookies in cooler weather, tend my small garden, and can produce for the pantry.
Mighty fine team we make.

So with these ribs this very weekend ahead, how about some corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes, mom’s potato salad, assorted pickles, maybe some homemade rolls.

Dessert? I’m lobbying for apple pie, ice cream optional.

Once upon a Labor Day, way back in the early years, I had saved up my S&H greenstamps and filled enough books to redeem them for a hand-crank ice cream churn. I was thrilled.
We cranked ice cream! Vanilla. Strawberry. Chocolate. Peach! Blueberry. Mint chocolate chip. Butter pecan. Ah, my Norwegian-dairy farming ancestors are laughing in my heart.

No matter what we eat this Labor Day, let’s give thanks for and support workers and our labor unions. In solidarity for better days ahead.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[debm55]

50. You are so lucky. Everything sounds wounderful

[Shrek]

46. By a cranky 75-year old pitmaster

Who's been working the same pit for the last 40 years.

[debm55]

52. Wow, 40 years??

[Shrek]

54. Just a guess

He was working at my favorite rib place when my wife and I first met, and that was in the mid 80s. He's still there.

[Arthur_Frain]

48. Soak overnight in my secret vinegar soy solution.

Grill for long enough to char the skin.

Finish in the oven until the bones fall off the meat when you try to lift a rib out of the pan. All you come up with is rib bone, gotta grab tongs and go after that rib meat.

Mmmm.

[debm55]

51. Thank you, Love when the the meat falls off of the bone