Rib time

Smoked 8/8/19

St Louis style spare ribs are on sale this week for $1.99/lb and that means it is time to fire up our little bullet smoker again.  As usual, we had to chop the racks up a bit to fit in our little bullet.  Seasoned only with North Main BBQ All "N" 1 seasoning.

The 3 racks went on to the smoker for 4 hours, fueled with charcoal, oak and pecan from our yard, plus some macadamia shells!  A friend in Hawaii has been sending us some delicious macadamia nuts, still in the shell, and we saved the shells up for smoking.  They did great!

The meat trimmings came off first and made some dandy meat candy.  So dandy we ate half of it before I got around to taking a photo.

The ribs came off  40 minutes later and were delicious, but a bit tough in places.  We skipped the usual final step of wrapping in foil with another hour of low heat.  That probably would have softened them up a bit more, but we were ready to eat!  The smoke flavor was awesome.  The leftovers will warm up very nicely over the next few days.