Kona Coffe rubbed ribs and Cajun rib tips

I usually do baby backs, my family prefers them over spare ribs. Spare ribs were on sale, so I decided to take a crack at the St Louis cut. My trimming skills need a little work, but practice still tastes great!

On the MAK @250F with 100% Hickory


I mopped them a couple of times with rice wine vinegar.

After a few hours I gave them some Foil Love.

Ready!


I decided to reduce the foil love drippings into a sauce:



I boiled it down until it was half the original volume, about 20 minutes.

I have noticed with the foil love you need to go a little heavier on the rub, it tends to wash off a little.

These were good. The Kona rub is definitely not sweet, but the brown sugar in the FL brought some subtle sweetness to the party.

The Cajun rub on the tips was an experiment that turned out great, I'll be using that as the rib rub next time.

The ribs look great and the photo essay makes for an enjoyable read.

When you speak of foil love, is that just wrapping the ribs in foil, returning to the grill and then removing foil for a final crisping--the 3-2-1 method so many use?

I have never foiled ribs or anything else on the pellet grill.

One other note, it is frustrating to start a thread and not have anyone respond to it, seeing that I'm the first. It's the thread starters that are the life blood of any forum and all members should try to support each other as much as possible. Just my 2 cents.

Shelly

man those look nice a juicy. love the color. nice job bent.

What's in the Cajun rub?

Foil Love= Wrap in foil with brown sugar, honey and butter.

Cajun was Veron's from humble, tx. i got it from a friend on mine on another forum. <CRG>

Thanks, Veron's is good stuff!

Looks great FLB!

I'd already commented on these yesterday in the contest thread, but I think these are some of the best looking ribs I've seen you post.

FLBentRider said:

I decided to reduce the foil love drippings into a sauce...

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That was a great touch. The final color of those ribs is gorgeous! I really like that you tried the rib tips too. They look equally good to me.

Looks great!!! How was the coffee rub???? Never tried it on ribs before...

those look great FL

Great looking cook, those ribs look perfect!