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Teach me how to bbq ribs over charcoal!!!

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Originally Posted by KJT
I've never par-boiled ribs before... but if there's a way to make them on a weeknight in about an hour, I'm in from time to time.

Do it, it's quicker and much healthier too as you release some fat and porky aftertaste.
 

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Originally Posted by GrillinFool
Sorry, but preboiling, or parboiling, is not BBQ or grilling. It's cutting corners for tenderness at the cost of flavor. You are guaranteed tender and it happens in a fraction of the time and some hope to cover it up with a slathering of sauce to make it seem like they weren't boiled but they are inferior ribs to anyone taking the time to add a couple hours of smoke to the meat.

Originally Posted by westinghouse
Do it, it's quicker and much healthier too as you release some fat and porky aftertaste.

Actually tried it tonight, and just finished eating them. Pretty terrible. I'm glad to have experimented, but I will not make ribs in that style again.
 

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Originally Posted by KJT
Actually tried it tonight, and just finished eating them. Pretty terrible. I'm glad to have experimented, but I will not make ribs in that style again.

Should have seen that coming.
 

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Originally Posted by KJT
Actually tried it tonight, and just finished eating them. Pretty terrible. I'm glad to have experimented, but I will not make ribs in that style again.

Boil them less next time.
 

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Originally Posted by jpeirpont
Should have seen that coming.
Yeah I kinda did see it coming, but I wanted to try it to see if there was an alternative to spending hours cooking them.
Originally Posted by westinghouse
Boil them less next time.
Nah, there won't be a next time. Ribs done right are too good - bad ribs are just a travesty. There was no pork flavor. It looked like pork, it felt like pork, it tasted... like nothing. Normally I eat my ribs basically dry (just the rub) or with a vinegar carolina style sauce, but tonight we had to use a kc-style sauce to give it some life. Blech.
 

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Originally Posted by KJT
Nah, there won't be a next time. Ribs done right are too good - bad ribs are just a travesty. There was no pork flavor. It looked like pork, it felt like pork, it tasted... like nothing. Normally I eat my ribs basically dry (just the rub) or with a vinegar carolina style sauce, but tonight we had to use a kc-style sauce to give it some life. Blech.
imo, people that parboil ribs are looking for a vehicle for sauce. But don't despair, there is a great alternative to cooking ribs for hours and it comes from one of the most famous rib shrines in the country: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=6905590 I've made these ribs in a little over an hour and they are delicious.
 

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Originally Posted by westinghouse
Do it, it's quicker and much healthier too as you release some fat and porky aftertaste.

why'd you wanna do that?
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Originally Posted by acidboy
why'd you wanna do that?
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That is the million dollar question.
 

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ok dumb question... so I'm gonna try out lighting our charcoal grill via a chimney... so after lighting it what happens next?
 

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Originally Posted by acidboy
ok dumb question... so I'm gonna try out lighting our charcoal grill via a chimney... so after lighting it what happens next?

What do you mean? You light the bottom of the chimney, wait a while for the heat to travel and get all the coals roaring, then toss it into the grill.
 

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^ yeah that was the dumb part of the question, after lighting the coals, tossing it in the grill... what I do is putting all the coals in the grill, over some newspaper, and then light it up.
 

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Originally Posted by vinouspleasure
imo, people that parboil ribs are looking for a vehicle for sauce. But don't despair, there is a great alternative to cooking ribs for hours and it comes from one of the most famous rib shrines in the country:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=6905590

I've made these ribs in a little over an hour and they are delicious.


This method is gaining in popularity. One problem. The meat needs to be like 18-24 inches above the fire. The vast majority of grills don't have that kind of elevation. Vertical bullet smokers do but that's about it.

I'm going to try this method on my infrared barrel grill and see what happens...
 

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Originally Posted by acidboy
^ yeah that was the dumb part of the question, after lighting the coals, tossing it in the grill... what I do is putting all the coals in the grill, over some newspaper, and then light it up.

What type of grill do you have?
 

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Originally Posted by GrillinFool
What type of grill do you have?

just a regular generic clam shaped grill. I think I've only used it, like maybe 5 times.
 

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