Afternoon all,
Got three slabs of the nicest looking BB ribs I have ever got my hands on smoking and a 8lb butt. Planning to pull the ribs off somewhere around the 5 1/2 - 6 hour range. Let the butt cook all night till 190-195 degs and then let it rest for a few hours in the cooler.
Best thing is I was taking to my neighbor who I recently got interested in Qing and he bought a WSM and is trying it out for the first time today. In looking for some good cuts of meat he found a seafood/meat specialty shop that just opened up near us in Valrico, Florida (15 miles east of Tampa FL). This place is great...you go in and everything...and I mean everything is fresh. All the cuts of meat are cut to YOUR specs. The BB ribs I got were pretty expensive but they are the meatttteessssst ones I have ever got. I'll get some pics of them when they are done and post them. They also had pretty much everything I could think of. UNCUT briskets, butts, spares, BB's, seafood. I picked out a dry rub that they had there (a local produced one) and they even pulled the membrane of the BB's and did the rub for me. So all I had to do was come home. Fire up the WSM and take them out of the butchers paper and put them on the grate. They even did the same for the butt. They trimmed if for me (worked great cuz i didn't have to pay for all the excess fat they trimmed off the cap and then I had them rub it with mustard and then with a dry rub I picked out that they had. NOW I will say it's NOT cheap to go this route but for me with two kids and my wife and I working many many hours (both military)...you can't beat this type of service.
They will even marinate your chicken for you in a wine-spice combo if you call ahead and already have an account opened with them.
Well...back down to check on the meat..time to baste the ribs. I'll post some pics and a summary when I get done.
If any of you have these types of markets in your area let me know what you think of them and what the typical prices are like. Thanks and good Qing to all of ya.
--Matt J.............can't beat have good Q cooking with a beer in hand and floating in the pool in sunny florida /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif GOOO TB Lightning
Got three slabs of the nicest looking BB ribs I have ever got my hands on smoking and a 8lb butt. Planning to pull the ribs off somewhere around the 5 1/2 - 6 hour range. Let the butt cook all night till 190-195 degs and then let it rest for a few hours in the cooler.
Best thing is I was taking to my neighbor who I recently got interested in Qing and he bought a WSM and is trying it out for the first time today. In looking for some good cuts of meat he found a seafood/meat specialty shop that just opened up near us in Valrico, Florida (15 miles east of Tampa FL). This place is great...you go in and everything...and I mean everything is fresh. All the cuts of meat are cut to YOUR specs. The BB ribs I got were pretty expensive but they are the meatttteessssst ones I have ever got. I'll get some pics of them when they are done and post them. They also had pretty much everything I could think of. UNCUT briskets, butts, spares, BB's, seafood. I picked out a dry rub that they had there (a local produced one) and they even pulled the membrane of the BB's and did the rub for me. So all I had to do was come home. Fire up the WSM and take them out of the butchers paper and put them on the grate. They even did the same for the butt. They trimmed if for me (worked great cuz i didn't have to pay for all the excess fat they trimmed off the cap and then I had them rub it with mustard and then with a dry rub I picked out that they had. NOW I will say it's NOT cheap to go this route but for me with two kids and my wife and I working many many hours (both military)...you can't beat this type of service.
They will even marinate your chicken for you in a wine-spice combo if you call ahead and already have an account opened with them.
Well...back down to check on the meat..time to baste the ribs. I'll post some pics and a summary when I get done.
If any of you have these types of markets in your area let me know what you think of them and what the typical prices are like. Thanks and good Qing to all of ya.
--Matt J.............can't beat have good Q cooking with a beer in hand and floating in the pool in sunny florida /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif GOOO TB Lightning