O.T. A BBQ thread

[Bri in Chi]

Well, there just might be a forumite out there who doesn't know how to make real BBQ ribs. I'm here to help, just in time for the 4th of July. OK, if you don't live in the USA, it wouldn't hurt you to eat a few ribs on our official BBQ day when we celebrate the sacrifices of our forefathers by blowing the fingers off our youngsters with illegal fireworks.
Anyway...
1 Slab of pork ribs. Here in Chicago, they call them "St. Louis Style Ribs." I don't think because of the saint who became king of France. And, since we hate all their sports teams, and reversed the flow of the Chicago River to send our sewage down the Mississippi River to flavor their city's drinking water, I dunno why. Anyway, don't get the wimpy little "baby back ribs."
Marinade:
1 part Lee and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
1 part Lite Soy Sauce
McCormicks BBQ Seasoning

Mix the 2 sauces together and brush liberally over ribs. Sprinkle the seasoning on liberally too. (If You hate liberalism, use everything conservatively.)

Cut the slab in half for convenient handling. Put the ribs in a new plastic storage bag and refrigerate overnight or longer.

Soak a couple of handfulls or hickory chips or chunks in water for a few hours, or overnight.

Using a covered grill, Like a Weber, get about 40 briquettes going and put them on both sides of the grill. The rails they sell make this easy. Put a drip pan (a Weber made, or a disposable aluminum cake pan) in the middle and add about 1 cup of water - from the hickory soaking is good. That will make the steam that aids the smoke and keeps the ribs moist. Put a bunch of the wet hickory on the hot coals, and then put on the grill and flop on the ribs over the pan, not the coals.

Cook the ribs by this "indirect" method. The idea is to cook them verrrry slowly at a low temperature with a lot of smoke and steam. 2 or three hours should do it. Remember to flip them every 30 - 40 minutes. Yvsa's BBQ sauce will make your meal.
I almost forgot... Happy Independence Day Or to our British friends, Colonial Unpleasantness Day

 

[Yvsa]

Sounds good Brian but would be way too salty for this old ndn.
We made a Rib Run this morning to insure we had ribs for the Fourth.
But instead of pork ribs we got some nice marbled boneless beef ribs and are gonna cook 'em slow in our Smokin Joe over a slow charcoal and hickory fire.
The way the weather is here damn near all you'd have to do is put the meat on the grill and close the lid. The black grill draws enough heat from the sun to keep it 150* inside according to the thermometer!
Only thing is you wouldn't have the hickory flavor and ribs ain't ribs without hickory smoke IMO!!!!

And of course we're having Barbie's BBQ Sauce, that's just a given. We may have to kick it up enough so that Munk gets tears in his eyes but I don't know how hot that may be.

 

[Bri in Chi]

Yvsa,
I don't need to give you lessons on how to BBQ, that's fer shure. Do you remember a place in Tulsa called Zeby's BBQ? Or was it Claremore... where the gun museum is? Right off RT 66 as I remember. But then, I could be confused

 

[Yvsa]

Yvsa,
I don't need to give you lessons on how to BBQ, that's fer shure. Do you remember a place in Tulsa called Zeby's BBQ? Or was it Claremore... where the gun museum is? Right off RT 66 as I remember. But then, I could be confused

Don't recall it Brian but that's not unusual when the best BBQ in town is what you get at home.

I remember two places, one from when I was real little, Latimer's and one when I wasn't so little, just a big dumb assed kid, Bacon's Drive In.
Jim Bacon did up the best BBQ I've ever put a lip around and had a killer sauce as well.
Jim's Hot Sauce was so damned hot you could hardly eat it but man did it have a flavor, beat out Barbie's fer shure.
Trouble is AFAIK the secret recipe died with Jim when he walked West.
Barbie's is mighty close though, just that little something, or two somethings, that one can never quite put their finger on you know.:grumpy:
Hell it could be as simple as molasses; hmmm maybe some expermentation is in order.

 

[Kismet]

Barbie's is mighty close though, just that little something, or two somethings, that one can never quite put their finger on you know.

Ahem...

if it ain't broke...