Destroyed Ribs: Only myself to blame

Carter · August 24, 2008, 07:04:52 PM

Made some beauty Ribs yesterday (Saturday) for a BBQ we were having today (Sunday).

Cooked for 6 hours yesterday (4 in the smoker and 2 in the oven). Did Apple City Baby Backs from Smoke n Spice.

My wife and I tasted them when they were done. My best batch of ribs yet. I went all out on the meat too and spent a little extra.

I vacuum sealed them up ready to be re-heated on the barby today with sauce.

Are you ready for the part where I destroy my ribs?

I threw the ribs on the barby which I thought I had on low and went in to the house to carve up the chicken. Chicken and Ribs. Does it get any better? I'm pretty quick with chicken these days and can have one taken apart and on the plate in a couple of minutes.

I wrap in foil to keep warm, walk out and my bbq temperature guage says 500 degrees. "Oh No", I thought. I open up the Q, flip over the ribs and they're black. One rack was salvageable. Another half was crispy but tolerable. The last half was toast. Complete write off. I looked at them and said to myself "What were you thinking?!"

Such a disappointment after all that work. Live and learn I guess.

On a good note, we had a great time with our friends and still had some excellent food, even if the ribs were average at best. That's the most important thing.

Carter

Smokin Soon · August 24, 2008, 07:21:50 PM

I feel your pain, I did that to 17 hungry employees.

Gizmo · August 24, 2008, 09:08:33 PM

Sounds similar to a cook I did for a party. Had 3 yard birds on a rotisserie. Infrared burner was not getting the job done soon enough so I had to turn on the bottom burners. Big mistake without a drip pan underneath. Went up to change into shorts and when I got back, flames. Skin was black but the birds survived. I had several other meats and dishes so it wouldn't have been a big loss thankfully.

I am sure your friends will be back for a new rack or two real soon. ;)

Mr Walleye · August 25, 2008, 07:21:23 AM

Sorry to here about you ribs Carter.

Sometimes I think "we" are our biggest critics. I'm pretty confident that everybody can relate to one of those "Doh!" moments, even you guests. I think the best part about it is it probably won't happen again. ;)

Chin up and fire some more ribs in! ;)

Mike

westexasmoker · August 25, 2008, 07:33:22 AM

I'm with Mike time for another batch....call it the redemption batch! :D

C

MWS · August 25, 2008, 12:43:18 PM

Geez, I did the same thing on Sunday but thankfully only smokey dogs were scorched. It's the first time I've ever done that and I'm glad I was able to throw a couple more dogs on.

I remember one time I was cooking an all day chili. I laboured over it for hours, then just before serving, my wife turned on the wrong burner on the stove and ruined it >:(. I let silence do my talking fortunately. I won't tell you about the time she forgot to put yeast in the pizza dough after I laboured over a pizza sauce.

Oh...and don't put a pyrex baking dish on the stovetop. You may accidently turn on the wrong element (yes wife again) and blow the thing up........HOT shards of pyrex baked into the lanolium floor.
AND again on the hot burner theme. Don't place a fry pan with oil on a burner and walk away for "just a second" (yup wife). ....puff into flames and long story short, I got new laminate flooring.

By the way, I didn't tell my wife about the dogs. ;)

Cheers

Mr Walleye · August 25, 2008, 03:56:54 PM

MWS

That reminds me of the time I stopped at my sisters place years ago. Any way she wasn't home so I decided to make a pizza. You have to realize she is not much of a cook, in fact she didn't at that time. Anyway, I fire up the oven to warm it up and... wait... I smell something! Open the oven and.... Guess where she used to store here Tuperware! :o

Mike

FLBentRider · August 25, 2008, 08:24:02 PM

Bummer about your ribs. Sounds like it's time for another batch!

Carter · August 26, 2008, 09:03:48 AM

Thanks for your concern and stories folks. Like it was said, sometimes we are our biggest critics. I had a couple of the RIBs for lunch yesterday and I thought they were pretty good afterall. Just not as good as they could have been.

I agree. A redemption batch is in order.

Pretty funny stories. MWS, sounds like your wife may be a danger in the kitchen. Good thing no one was in the kitchen when that Pyrex blew. And Walleye, love that story about the Tupperware.

We used to have a tenant living in our basement. She kept her frying oil in the oven when she wasn't using it. It used to scare the crap out of me that one day she'd turn on the oven and forget the stuff was there. She was a weird bird, but always timely with her cheques. We had to ask her to leave because we needed the space for our kids.

Carter

FLBentRider · August 26, 2008, 11:46:00 AM

I keep my large cast-iron baking pan in the oven, acts like a heat sink.

Scotty-G · August 26, 2008, 07:45:56 PM

Hey Carter,
I recently had an experience at the other end of the spectrum -
put 3 racks of baby backs into the smoker and after 3 hrs of smoke they looked great.
Came back after 2 more hours and saw that the box temp was way down. . . my pid was off . . . there was no power at the outlet . . .
apparently a circut breaker had tripped (was running 2 microwaves and a toaster oven and didn't know they were all on the same circuit - do now). No one noticed that the breaker tripped and of course the smoker was on that line.
ribs sat for you knows how long at too low a temp . . . safer to toss the batch.

The only saving grace was this batch was made using a rub of chinese 5 spice, salt and brown sugar - not iceman's rub :D

Next day made a redemption batch ;D :D :) and made sure that only the smoker was being used ;)

Scotty-G

Carter · August 28, 2008, 09:25:23 AM

No quiters in this group.

Fall off the horse and get right back on. It's a good support group.

I'm having a smokeless weekend coming up because we're going away. Not much smoke, but lots of adult beverages with my brother and Dad, so it's not all bad.

My redemption batch will have to wait until next weekend.

Carter

Consiglieri · August 28, 2008, 09:30:13 AM

Quote from: MWS on August 25, 2008, 12:43:18 PM
Geez, I did the same thing on Sunday but thankfully only smokey dogs were scorched. It's the first time I've ever done that and I'm glad I was able to throw a couple more dogs on.

I remember one time I was cooking an all day chili. I laboured over it for hours, then just before serving, my wife turned on the wrong burner on the stove and ruined it >:(. I let silence do my talking fortunately. I won't tell you about the time she forgot to put yeast in the pizza dough after I laboured over a pizza sauce.

Oh...and don't put a pyrex baking dish on the stovetop. You may accidently turn on the wrong element (yes wife again) and blow the thing up........HOT shards of pyrex baked into the lanolium floor.
AND again on the hot burner theme. Don't place a fry pan with oil on a burner and walk away for "just a second" (yup wife). ....puff into flames and long story short, I got new laminate flooring.

By the way, I didn't tell my wife about the dogs. ;)

Cheers

I think you've identified why I brew. ;)

Chicken is the problem child: turn your back for just a second and the fuel ignites.