Tim M's BBQ cooking area |
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Baby Backs on the raised grid |
1 rack of Baby Back ribs
Here is my setup:
main grid with my "double boiler" drip pan then the raised grid over it with ribs on top. This allows indirect cooking (less burning and drying out over time with higher temps) and also direct cooking when I remove the pan to finish them up for the last hour.
Baby Backs - indirect phase
The plan is to cookfor 2.5 hrs at 325 deg and then remove the drip pan and go 1/2 hr while adding sauce.
Here they are going on - mustard coat and JJ's rub all over them. Cooking indirect over a drip pan for 2.5 hrs at 325 deg.
The raised grid makes removing the drip pan very easy. The raised grid needs to be lifted, then remove drip pan and replace ribs on main grid. No hot firebricks or plate setter to deal with.
Here the ribs have been at 325 for 2.5 hrs. Time to remove the drip pan and place ribs on main grid to finish for 1/2 hr at 250-275. I will add a sauce now so it will burn a little - yummy!!
This is just after the drip pan was removed and I brushed on some sauce that DJM5x9, from the forum, sent up from Georgia. It was awful sweet - not good as a dipping sauce but one that sure will char a little with all that sugar. Thanks Darryl!
RESULTS:
This has got to be one of the best racks of ribs I have done. I
loved them! This will now be me standard way to do 1-2 racks of baby
backs. This was wonderful - juicy like indirect gives you but with a
nice crust and as much char as you want to burn on them at the end.
Forget your ceramic - this works just as well.
OK - this worked too on a later cook:
3 hr @ 275 indirect and 1 hr direct @ 275
-- this was better yet!
