So far I've cooked steak, baby back ribs, and St. Louis cut ribs on my MAK and my loaner last summer. On the pelletsmoking.com web forum I'm a member of there are lots of good recipes. Someone did some beef ribs a couple of weeks ago. I hadn't really considered doing beef ribs until I saw Cowgirl's entry. That was the inspiration, but these will be a bit different
- She coated hers with bacon drippings before putting on the rub. I didn't have bacon drippings so I used good ol' vegetable oil
- She used big beef rib racks. I've wanted to do something with short ribs for a long time, so I went that direction.
- No sauce for me
It's a 2 day process; one day for the rub and one day for the cooking. I picked up 4 1/2 lbs of ribs at New Season's; they look fantastic just as they are
Made a rub based on Craig "Meathead"Goldwyn's Big Bad Beef Rub at amazingribs.com. This rub is light on sugar and is heavy on salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder. To get a nice fine rub I pushed it through a fine wire mesh strainer. I applied the rub, wrapped 'em up and put them in the garage refrigerator overnight.
Tomorrow after church I'll fire up the smoker. Here's the plan
- 2 1/2 hours at 250 degrees
- 60 minutes on "smoke"
- Back to 250 until they hit 180 internal temp
