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Tim O

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I've cooked babybacks on my 18.5 WSM many times flat on the grate. I'm cooking 4 racks now and bought the weber rib rack to hold them...are there any major cooking differences I should know about with the rack? Do people still foil?
 
Sure, You can still foil them, but I wouldn't try to put them back in the rib rack. You can either just use both grates if nothing is cooking on the bottom, or stack them in two pairs.
 
Nothing different when using a rib rack. You might like the results because cutting them in half and putting them in a rib rack will keep the ends away from the outer edge of the cooking grate where it is hotter. Foiling isn't a problem because you don't put them back in the rib rack. The one problem I see with foiling is that you won't have enough flat surface to put them on after the foil to firm them up. Right out of foil, they may be difficult to put back in the rib rack. I put them on my gasser to firm them up after foiling.
 
Jerry N. said:
You might like the results because cutting them in half and putting them in a rib rack will keep the ends away from the outer edge of the cooking grate where it is hotter.
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Amen, Jerry. Smoking half slabs of ribs is probably the best tip anyone can give for better ribs on the 18.5".
 
Dave Russell said:
Amen, Jerry. Smoking half slabs of ribs is probably the best tip anyone can give for better ribs on the 18.5".
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I bought a couple of large rib racks at Academy which allow me to foil and put the ribs back in it in my 18.5 WSM. I can also bend a whole rack around and put each end in the rack, allowing me to cook two fulls racks vertical on each cooking grid.
 
GB King said:
I bought a couple of large rib racks at Academy which allow me to foil and put the ribs back in it in my 18.5 WSM. I can also bend a whole rack around and put each end in the rack, allowing me to cook two fulls racks vertical on each cooking grid.
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Can you or someone else explain to me the benefit of bending a "whole rack around" to "put each end in the rack"? I know folks do it in the 18.5, but I guess I just don't understand why. I can roll and skewer three or even FOUR full racks and keep the ends out of the hot zone, so why would I need a rib rack if I'm gonna bend them anyway? :confused: Anyway, even over rolling and skewering, I prefer to smoke half slabs on the 18.5, and believe it or not, six half slabs smoke quite evenly in a six-slot Charcoal Companion rib rack that I've used many times on my 18.5.
 
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