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[b]stike wrote:[/b]
[quote][center][img size=768]http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c369/stike1/2007_07_22ribs.jpg[/img][/center]<p />[b]wife had a hankering for ribs after hearing my buddy and his wife (new BGE owners) talking about their recent rib cooks... just got the egg, and they did them two or three times aleady. to my wife, what was worse was that their ribs were done with my (initial) coaching.  my wife wanted to know what the heck WE hadn't had ribs in so long.[p]i usually do a straight 250 cook for maybe 6/7/8 hours, as long as it takes.  this time i got started late and 'resigned' myself to doing them 3-1-1.   have to admit, they were the best ever.  i put the trimmings on a rack below (took out the fire ring, platesetter legs up/grid/trimmings/raised grid/racks over that).  trimmings were almost better than the ribs.  almost[p]last time we did them, i made the sauce (usually my wife likes to).  she thought the sauce was great, asked me what i did this time, and then SHE modified that yet again for this cook. best ribs and best sauce.  no idea what was in it though (as far as amounts), alas.  we never write it down. cook by 'feel' mostly.[p]anyway, second pic was a later cook, starting the egg around 6pm.  the air was so still, the smoke went straight up.  this is a pic when the breeze started to knock the column of smoke down.  as high as this is, before i took the pic the smoke was literally straight up in a tight column, way over the houses until it got lost in the sunlight.  was pretty cool. you can see the yards are city-lots, 50 feet wide.  that smoke was visible to about 8 neighbors. hahaha[p][url=http://photobucket.com][img size=329]http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c369/stike1/2007_07_22smoke.jpg[/img][/url][/b][br][/quote]

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Topic History of: long overdue spare ribs
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stike	gdenby, thanks i used just a sheet of tinfoil with rolled edges, no drip pan. i throw it out the next day when it's cold and congealed. only issue with the plate setter the way i did it was that i have a smoke fetish (with regard to ribs, i mean!), and a couple times when it stopped smoking for a while, i might have been tempted to lift the lid and jiggle some wood into the fire. couldn't do that here since the fire was almost covered
gdenby	stike, Interesting set-up with no fire ring. Did you have a drip pan on the plate-setter? Did the setter there make the fire take longer to develop? gdenby
stike	ArtieQ, no such thing as talent. takes PRACTICE! luck, too. was the right time of day, the "magic hour" before sunset
ArtieQ	stike, It's not always the equipment!! Still takes talent.
stike	fishlessman, hahaha my kids are on the sh!t list for the house on the other side. first, wiffle balls fouled over the fence. then hard balls. my youngest, though, in a fight with his brother, flung the HARD bat over the fence and almost took out their glass pation table. i felt like a total putz. now we go to the batting cage.
stike	Rick's Tropical Delight, yeah they are great folks, but it's funny sometimes. last time i saw him he was out grilling once and said \"what's for supper?\" i replied kinda sheepishly, "um, just. well, we're having venison tenderloin..." he brought over some great tenderloin tips once, gasser or not. nice neighbors.