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As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs experiment.
As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs experiment.
Photo’s on my home server, so it might be a bit slow http://creativeimpulse.xs4all.nl/photo/ username bbq_user password bbq_user I will keep the photo’s there for about a week saturday, Picked up the spare ribs from the local butcher. He did not cut them yet because he did not know how much meat I wanted on the ribs. The ribs he had where whiteout the loin part, al the way down to the sternum (sternum itself was not there, but still a tine bit cartilage connected tot the end of the ribs. I took the whole part, which he cut in two pieces (length of the ribs, about 10 to 15 cm). total weight, 2 kg. sunday at home, I cut of some fat so I had 1700 gr left. I carefully read all your advise from my last post. Since I used fresh garlic, a dry rub seemed difficult. Some suggested mustard as some kind of glue. I decided to ad olive oil to make a paste out of the ingredients. Paste: 1 tablespoon fresh ground pepper 1 tablespoon salt 2 tablespoons paprika powder 6 pieces of garlic (picture showing only 5) olive oil to make a paste put the paste on the ribs, and left it for one hour in plastic foil. Did not put it back in the fridge to let the meat come to room temperature my smoker uses wood only. Target temperature in the cooker 100 to 120 C. for the meat temperature, I had no Idea. I went for the wiggle and pull rib to check if the meat is done. I started at 13:00 expecting a smoking time of 4 to 6 hours I did stick a digital thermometer in the meat to check the readings without opening the lid (remembering your warnings about peeking) cooker temp 13:00 100 13:15 100 13:30 110 13:45 110 14:00 110 14:15 120 14:30 100 14:45 140 15:00 125 15:15 110 15:30 100 15:45 110 16:00 120 16:15 100 16:30 130 16:45 120 17:00 140 17:15 140 17:30 130 17:45 120 18:00 100 18:15 100 18:30 100 Time Meat int. 13:00 15 13:15 20 13:30 42 13:45 50 14:00 57 14:15 61 14:30 65 14:45 66 15:00 71 15:15 72 15:30 70 15:45 68 16:00 71 16:15 71 16:30 73 16:45 79 17:00 81 17:15 85 17:30 87 17:45 86 18:00 84 18:15 80 18:30 80 looking at those reading, there where some ups and downs but is seems that around the 70 C. it had trouble getting hotter I got a bit worried, because I did not see the meat pull back but decided after 5 hour to feed the family. Since I had two pieces, I decided to put a glaze on one of theme. Glaze ˝ cup of brown sugar ˝ cup balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons Worchester sauce 1 tablespoon dion mustard 2 tablespoons of honey took the ribs out after 51/2 hours. The ribs part 1 (closed to the loin) was dark, but not burned It had a nice shiny color due to the glaze The ribs where moist Although the meat did not pull back from the bone much, you did not have to pull the meat off the bones, the almost fall of the bone. The ribs close to the sternum where a disappointment. The meat was done, but chewy in one of the last pictures you can see that one of the ribs had a “joint” part and there was a lot of cartilage. I always thought a rib is a rib. I never thought there was so much difference between the loin part, the “middle part” and the sternum part. I now know to stick with the middle part if I want to smoke ribs. Improvements for next time: Get only the good spare ribs There was not much garlic taste, baste with garlic and oil to keep a garlic taste (not to keep them moist, they come out moist without basting this time) Easy on the glaze. It had a nice taste, but can overpower the taste of the meat The wood I used was dry oak, no fresh wood. No heave smoke. I will not change this. After 5 ˝ hours they had a nice flavor. No need for lots of smoke when you burn only wood Questions to the group: When you take a look at the pictures, did the butcher do a good job? I asked for a st louis cut. Do you have suggestions on the cartilage part. I think you refer to it as the skirt and costal ribs. I don’t remember reading about it in the past being chewy and lots of cartilage? Well, it turned out to be a long post, I hope you enjoyed reading it. Conclusion: Yes you can have good spare ribs in the Netherlands Adriaan the Netherlands |
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As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs experiment.
"A. Kesteloo" > wrote in news:f3a64cb9-4ad7-
: > http://creativeimpulse.xs4all.nl/photo/ They looked great. One suggestion about the glaze and missing garlic flavor. Instead of trying to glaze them why not convert it to a sauce to be used at the table. this will keep it from overpowering the meat (unless your my kids who think ketchup is its own food group) and you can add garlic to the sauce to give some more garlic flavor. -- Tommy Lee |
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As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs experiment.
"Nunya Bidnits" > wrote in
: > A. Kesteloo wrote: >> As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs experiment. >> >> Photo’s on my home server, so it might be a bit slow >> http://creativeimpulse.xs4all.nl/photo/ > > Nice server, but I can't see it. > > I can't get to the photos. Access is denied. There is no means to > register for access. I only get a page saying there are no public > albums. The links on the page either return me to the page which > denies access, or to a login sub-window, which has no link to a site > registration or "new user" link, or to the Synology site. > > MartyB in KC > > try "bbq_user" for user and password -- Tommy Lee |
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As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribsexperiment.
On Jun 23, 7:21*pm, "Nunya Bidnits" > wrote:
> A. Kesteloo wrote: > > If I may make a suggestion, I would eliminate the fresh garlic and olive oil > completely, as fresh garlic in particular may have a tendency to get bitter > whenever it is in the heat and smoke for an extended time. The same with > olive oil, it will take on a bitter flavor from the smoke. I actually winced when I read of these Adriaan, fresh garlic, olive oil on BBQ, errrr no. I looove fresh garlic, but not for this application. Have you enjoyed these ingredients on the other cuts you've been cooking on that contraption of yours? From the sound of it your ribs needed about another 90 minutes of cooking time. You learned lesson #2 of BBQ, don't cook to a schedule. If you're planning to eat at 7PM, try to BBQ so the meat's done between 5:30-6:00PM. BBQ meat holds a lot better than it tastes when underdone and rushed. Marty gave you good meat cut observations, to which I'll just add one thing, why go for St Louis style, when a full slab (from which the St. Louis is cut) will be easier for your butcher to do, and you'll probably get the extra meat for almost nothing, |
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As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs experiment.
On 23-Jun-2008, "Nunya Bidnits" > wrote: > A. Kesteloo wrote: > > As promised, the evaluation of this weekends spare ribs > > experiment. > > > > Photo’s on my home server, so it might be a bit slow > > http://creativeimpulse.xs4all.nl/photo/ > > Nice server, but I can't see it. > > I can't get to the photos. Access is denied. There is no means to > register > for access. I only get a page saying there are no public albums. > The links > on the page either return me to the page which denies access, or > to a login > sub-window, which has no link to a site registration or "new user" > link, or > to the Synology site. > > MartyB in KC That's strange Marty. I clicked the link and it took me right to the web page. I signed in and there was a slide show identified there. I clicked the button to start slideshow and away it went. Something like 20 - 30 pictures there. I didn't count them. -- Brick(Youth is wasted on young people) ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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