Ribs and Porketta weekend, pics included

richardvoyageur · July 17, 2011, 10:38:37 AM

Hey guys, 3rd time using the smoker and had to go with ribs for time issues. 6 racks of back ribs and we also had a 10 lb porketta on the rotisserie in the grill. I used Jan's Rub with a bit of heat on 3 racks and the "Award Winning Rub" that I found on the same website as Jan's Rub for the other 3 racks. For the sauces I used Sweet Baby Ray's Honey BBQ on 2, Bullseye on 2, and a great Apple Butter BBQ sauce on the last 2 which was really really good.

All of the ribs went quickly, there were none left at all. We also demolished about 80% of the porketta, it was outstanding.

Final hour with sauce, about to go back in.

The final hour

Finished plates with different sauces

The Boneyard!

Here's me and my buddy Paolo tending to the porketta. I'm on the left. We had a big drip tray underneath with a bunch of apple juice and we kept basting it with the juice & drippings. We pulled it at 142F and it came up to about 150 with foil and towel. It sliced beautifully, unfortunately I didn't grab any pics.

GusRobin · July 17, 2011, 12:20:46 PM

great looking ribs -good job

muebe · July 17, 2011, 12:39:02 PM

Nice job! Load of ribs looks great ;D

ghost9mm · July 17, 2011, 04:11:49 PM

Danged if you didn't nail them ribs...really are good lookin ribs, and the bone yard proves it...

Tenpoint5 · July 18, 2011, 02:09:49 PM

Some great looking ribs. I can tell by the boneyard, the empty Corona bottles and the empty Shot glass, that you guys had a great get together!!

OU812 · July 18, 2011, 03:25:51 PM

Quote from: Tenpoint5 on July 18, 2011, 02:09:49 PM
Some great looking ribs. I can tell by the boneyard, the empty Corona bottles and the empty Shot glass, that you guys had a great get together!!

Ditto!

SouthernSmoked · July 18, 2011, 03:36:51 PM

Some good looking Ribs!!!

richardvoyageur · July 18, 2011, 07:00:19 PM

Thanks guys, I owe it all to this forum and its members! You all are an invaluable resource to making great bbq.

By the way I forgot to mention I did 3-2-0.5 method, cut down the last hour as they were coming along quite nicely, I think I hit it right on too. Half the racks had perfect teeth pulls but cleaned the bones easily.

You should have seen the rest of the table 10.5 ;D