labor day ribs ( spoiler it was a bust)


 
I have had cooks that weren't as good as I hoped when I felt I did everything right. Sometimes it is like that. I go back and look at my notes to see if I diverted from normal routine anywhere, think to see if the weather was different (temperature), or maybe I just had a crappy cut of meat. Sometimes all of that is right and still it doesn't come out right. It happens.

You just try again. That is why I love smoking/grilling. It usually is an adventure every time for me.
 
Daryl - D.B. said:
I will add that I typically never go more than an hour in the foil but the last time I cooked ribs, they just werent ready to come out so they ended up staying in foil for nearly 2 hours. You just cant go by time.
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Yeah I know, and I suspect that had I intended to go 2.5 hours in foil I probably would have though something else was the problem. But since this was the biggest difference between what I wanted to do and what ended up happening, its the easiest scapegoat for how things turned out, even if its not deserved.

I remember thinking after the smoke how " elastic" the ribs were when I laid them flat and was convinced they needed the time in the foil to loosen up. In retrospect I think that if I had pulled them at two hours they still would have been overcooked, but not as bad as they ended up. but live and learn, I'm sure this wont be the last slab of meat I defile.
 
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