First smoke with babyback ribs on WSM
Posted: 30 May 2011, 12:24
I managed to fire up the WSM yesterday for my first ever smoke. I bought four racks of babyback ribs from the local butchers at around £3.50 each.
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Temperature was fine to start and then plunged down once the meat went in - I managed to fix that by building a makeshift windbreak. That quickly sorted that problem out. ('tis was very windy outside!
I used a rub recipe from BBQ Pit Boyz but to be honest I couldn't taste it that much due to the ribs being a tad too smoked for my liking...started with four chunks of oak and threw on 2 or 3 more small chunks half way through (one or two of which were hickory). The meat was not bitter, just too smoky (see photos - all meat has a pink smoke colour)
They were still nice to eat but room for improvement. I think I shall just put on 3 small chunks of oak next time and be done with it.
I used water in the bowl but may try sand next time.
Heatbeads kept on burning until very late in to the evening. (BTW, I couldn't taste any odd flavours from using them but I may try lump wood charcoal just as a test).
I’ll probably leave it a couple of weeks until the next attempt; may try a whole chicken next time along with a couple of racks of ribs.
Photo gallery: https://picasaweb.google.com/1180650907 ... 29May2011#
Temperature was fine to start and then plunged down once the meat went in - I managed to fix that by building a makeshift windbreak. That quickly sorted that problem out. ('tis was very windy outside!
I used a rub recipe from BBQ Pit Boyz but to be honest I couldn't taste it that much due to the ribs being a tad too smoked for my liking...started with four chunks of oak and threw on 2 or 3 more small chunks half way through (one or two of which were hickory). The meat was not bitter, just too smoky (see photos - all meat has a pink smoke colour)
They were still nice to eat but room for improvement. I think I shall just put on 3 small chunks of oak next time and be done with it.
I used water in the bowl but may try sand next time.
Heatbeads kept on burning until very late in to the evening. (BTW, I couldn't taste any odd flavours from using them but I may try lump wood charcoal just as a test).
I’ll probably leave it a couple of weeks until the next attempt; may try a whole chicken next time along with a couple of racks of ribs.
