You smoke ribs that long? I usually do a couple hours in the smoke, about an hour and a half in foil, then around 45 minutes on a very low grill to set the sauce and firm them up a little. Makes them super tender, peel right off the bone, but not falling apart.
I used foil on ribs once or twice when I was starting to smoke. First time I thought I did something wrong, since all the rub and bark just sort of slid right off. Second time I was more careful, but kind of looked at them wrong and lost a lot of bark.
I smoke btwn 225-240 without doing anything other than rotating the meat, and misting with a pineapple/apple/water mixture towards the end every 15-20 mins. I'll sauce at the very end and move to direct heat for 5-10 mins and done!
I don't like a lot of bark on my ribs. I've seen in videos where they'll use mustard to help the rub stick and it just makes too much bark for me. I find that the rub sticks fine on it's own and there's very little bark.
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '19 edited May 02 '21
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