Tonight I'm smoking beef ribs for the first time. My first thought is "where have you been all my life ?"
These are the brontosaurus ribs I remember seeing on the Flintstones as a kid. Half the price of pork spareribs, which in turn are half the price of baby back ribs, and at first glance they seem to be extremely good cuts of meat. Obviously a lot of that weight is bone, but 7 ribs / 4 pounds is my idea of a barbeque !!
It's turning out to be surprisingly easy to get a 6 hour burn on a single basket of coals using the "Minion Method". Best practice so far seems to be a Weber basket of tightly packed lump with a dozen or so lit briquettes on top plus a couple of chunks of smoke wood. Lid temperature has been solid at 250F for a couple of hours now.
