Today I attempted my first batch of beef back ribs. I cooked #4 racks at about 250 for about 4.5hrs. These weren't the meatiest ribs at a little over 2lbs/rack, but that's what I could find so that's what I cooked. I removed the membrane and rubbed them with the midnight cook pork butt rub with a little coriander thrown in for good measure. I used #3 chunks of hickory and #3 chunks of oak and fired the cooker using the minion method with about 40 lit coals to 1/2 ring of unlit. They were turned at the 3hr mark and sauced up at about the 4hr mark. I was quite pleased with the end result. The rub and smoke flavor were perfect and the sauce made them that much better. I should have left them on the cooker for another 1/2hr of so as they weren't fall off the bone tender. They weren't foiled either so maybe that would have made them more tender. There weren't any leftovers. I like these better than baby back or St. Louis pork ribs. I'm definitely going to do these again.
