Super Bowl ribs

[Frank H]

My son is having a little Superbowl get together for a few of his buds and I volunteered to smoke some ribs. The local supermarket had back ribs on sale for $2.88 lb....not too bad.

These have been on the WSM since about 1 o clock. Just as a little aside here. I went without the brick I usually use as a heat sink because I wanted to cook a little hotter and faster since I'd like to leave here by 5 with the ribs all done....but it seems like those four racks of REALLY meaty ribs are quite a heat sink by themselves and the smoker was hard pressed to hit 250 for quite a while....just how it seems to be working today.
More pix later.

just came back from checking on the wsm.....cruising at 250 degrees with no heat sink whatsoever and all vents open wide. I really wish it was at 275 , but I'm going to leave it be 'til 5 o'clock and see where I'm at.
had to look just once and take a pic to share....they look good and the smell that hit me when the lid came off made my mouth water.

 

[Tony R]

Wish I could get meaty baby backs in my area. They are not even worth buying here.

Good luck hopefully everything goes as planned Frank.

 

[Dave S]

Oh yes Frank I like the looks of those ribs

 

[Jim Lampe]

2.88's a dang good price Frank!
Ribs lookin' great so far.... hope your favTeam wins!

 

[Frank H]

Wish I could get meaty baby backs in my area. They are not even worth buying here.

Good luck hopefully everything goes as planned Frank.

thanks man. These things are HEAVY , brother ! Each rack felt like a 'gator tail when I lifted them. I wish I could've gotten them on earlier , but sweetie wanted us to go to church , and , you know I need The Lord on my side as much as possible , so I had to roll with the punch.

 

[Robert T]

They look great. Did you mop or foil? I have found you can cheat on the low and slow in a pinch if you foil. Add a little apple juice to the foil and they come out tender and delicious.

 

[Frank H]

 

[RogerS]

Wow Frank I'll take a 1/2 slab

 

[Mike Coffman]

Beautiful looking ribs Frank!

 

[Thomas Flahavan]

Awesome! They look so moist.

 

[Frank H]

They look great. Did you mop or foil? I have found you can cheat on the low and slow in a pinch if you foil. Add a little apple juice to the foil and they come out tender and delicious.

I didn't mop or foil this time. Time constraints being what they were , I wanted to just leave the lid on and cook. I. Feel like they came out nice and moist . These ribs were so thick , I think you'd have had a hard time drying them out if you wanted to.

 

[MikeD125]

lookin good.

 

[justin.williams]

ribs look great!