Pete (ZIMPETE)
New member
For my first smoke I tried Baby Back Ribs.
Soaked in Pineapple Juice overnight.
8:00 am Put honey on both sides and coated with Famous Dave’s Rib Rub.
12:00 pm Started coals, ¾ full lit chimney with 30 unlit bricks around outside of fire ring. 4 Hickory wood chunks and a hand full of hickory wood chips sprinkled on unlit coals.
12:30 pm Ribs went on at 225 degrees, temp dropped to 200, I opened all vents full and temp went to 250 and stayed there all day.
2:30 pm Added 2 hand full’s of wood chips and flipped ribs over.
3:00 pm 170 degree internal temp.
3:30 pm coated ribs in BBQ sauce and foiled, back on smoker.
4:30 pm stoked coals and removed ribs from foil
5:00 pm ribs off smoker.
My wife prefers everything to be very well done; this is why I kept them on the smoker so long. The ribs were great with the exception of the heavy smoke flavor. Either I used too much wood or I don’t like the flavor of hickory.
Things learned:
No wood chips, they just burn up in minutes.
More coals would have been better.
Soaked in Pineapple Juice overnight.
8:00 am Put honey on both sides and coated with Famous Dave’s Rib Rub.
12:00 pm Started coals, ¾ full lit chimney with 30 unlit bricks around outside of fire ring. 4 Hickory wood chunks and a hand full of hickory wood chips sprinkled on unlit coals.
12:30 pm Ribs went on at 225 degrees, temp dropped to 200, I opened all vents full and temp went to 250 and stayed there all day.
2:30 pm Added 2 hand full’s of wood chips and flipped ribs over.
3:00 pm 170 degree internal temp.
3:30 pm coated ribs in BBQ sauce and foiled, back on smoker.
4:30 pm stoked coals and removed ribs from foil
5:00 pm ribs off smoker.
My wife prefers everything to be very well done; this is why I kept them on the smoker so long. The ribs were great with the exception of the heavy smoke flavor. Either I used too much wood or I don’t like the flavor of hickory.
Things learned:
No wood chips, they just burn up in minutes.
More coals would have been better.