Baby Back ribs

This summer SquirttheCat gave me an "illinois gift box". I was looking for a (different) rub to use on ribs and remembered the box. It was "Riley's" all purpose.

Three Racks of Baby backs


Rubbed up and smoke rolling.


2 hours later


Time for some of sparky's "Foil Love" with a twist

I added a couple of glugs of Merlot to the foil

After a couple hours or so in the foil


I poured the liquid contents of the foil into a sauce pot, ran it through a fat separator and brought it to a boil until the volume was reduced by half or so.

Done!




The ribs were great and the sauce was awesome. A combination of rub, rib drippings, butter, butter, Brown sugar, Honey and red wine. Even the kids liked it.

Holy crap those look great!

Those do look great. Were you cooking at 225?

Ribs look great! Same question as Carter, were those at 225?

Pellet boss was set to 1 HR on SMOKE and then 235F

really nice ribs bent. were you able to taste the merlot on them?

sparky said:

really nice ribs bent. were you able to taste the merlot on them?

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Yes, it was not very strong. You can definitely taste it in the sauce I made from the drippings. Good sauce. Next time I may add some rice wine vinegar to cut the sweetness a little bit.

That looks awesome FLBR!

Beautiful ribs, like the sauce idea.

Wow, nice lookin ribs!!

man I just want to dig-in to a plate full of those ribs!