Weber Smokey Mountain 18 : First cook Ribs

[Mark S Canada]

Hello,

First time cooking on my new WSM. Left bowl dry, filled ring took out 12-14 briquettes from centre and lit. I had the wood chunks to close to centre so I didn’t get the smoke on the ribs I was looking for. I let it run an hour before I put meat on.

Weather report was not promising so I set up the canopy

Picked up St. Louis ribs.

Plan was to cook between 225-250

At the three hour mark

At the four hour mark

At the four and half hour mark

Final

The temps held fairly consistently, I’m hoping as it breaks in it will hold a little better. Very happy with it and the time it takes and the drinks that flow while monitoring!

 

[Barb D]

Looking great. I see you had a helper watching those ribs.

 

[BFletcher]

Congrats! nice pics and I agree; the perks of low & slow are enjoyable

 

[BillSmith]

Nice job! I found it to be slightly nerve racking using the smoker for the first time. Do you know what temperature you cooked the ribs to?
I'm doing my third cook today - beef short ribs.

 

[Mark S Canada]

To be honest I didn’t cook to a temp. I used the bend test.

https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/pork-ribs-recipes/are-my-ribs-ready-yet

Good luck with your grill!

 

[Rob M]

Congrats! Looks delish

 

[Michael C.]

Great rack of ribs there!!!! Looks very tasty!!

 

[Clay Neubauer]

Keep it up. You'll get better really fast doing stuff like that and looking at what other people do here, and the best part- you probably won't cook anything that actually sucks while you experiment with barbecue!