Yesterday I engaged in my first experiment in cooking ribs on my smoker and I can pronounce the experiment a success. I started with some baby back ribs and smoked them for five hours on my smoker using some hickory chips. At the end of four hours I sauced the ribs and let them smoke for another hour.
The ribs were excellent—tender and tasty. We ate the ribs with homemade coleslaw and oven-fried sweet potato chips accompanied by Sam Adams Boston Ale. My wife suggested that we should be smoking ribs once a week if not more frequently. I demurred on the grounds that an all-rib diet would probably not be healthful. However, I do look forward to my next experiment in perhaps two weeks. I plan on smoking them for an additional hour and saucing at hour four and hour five. We’ll see what happens.
I can see how this can become an obsession.
