I don’t know why we don’t cook ribs as much as we do. I think we totally forget about ribs as an option and go with tri-tip or fish instead. This weekend we headed over to Costco to stock up on things when I saw a giant slab of pork spare ribs. These ribs were so large they sort of reminded me of that scene in the opening of the Flintstones… You know what I’m talking about right? When Fred and the bunch drive over to a drive-in and the waitress piles on some dinosaur ribs on their car and it tips over?
Well, they were THAT big (okay maybe not that big).
I ended up having to cut the slab in half and saved the other half for another weekend since it was just too much for the both of us and at $14 total, it was a really great deal (we even had leftovers).
When barbecuing ribs, there is an important question you need to ask yourself before starting to cook them:
DRY or WET?
In this case, we started off dry and it ended wet. You may be thinking to yourself, “What happened? Did your ribs fall in the pool while you were transferring them to your plate?”
The answer is, “NO.” In fact, I am unfortunate enough not to have a pool…although we have a little tiny pond in our backyard that is really a glorified in-ground bucket full of tepid water.
What we did do to our ribs, was that we started out with two dry rubs: A pork tenderloin seasoning which is pretty salty and a bbq seasoning I bought last year on a trip that is sweet.
Both rubs were rubbed onto the ribs, which had been patted dry beforehand.
The ribs were bbq’ed for approximately 35 minutes and were basted with bbq sauce periodically for extra flavor.
So…technically the ribs were wet, but they started off dry. Either way, they were delicious.
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These look so delicious. Yum!
Mmmm… I love the sauce-value on those ribs!