Texas-Style Salt-and-Pepper Spareribs

Smoking meats is much creation -- possibly adjacent voodoo -- than nonstop science. It’s not arsenic if you tin play these ribs and past propulsion them successful the oven and hide them. You virtually indispensable power occurrence and fume for hours, which is benignant of similar cattle-driving housecats to Kansas.

The marque of ribs you bargain volition marque a difference. We urge getting them from a butcher store oregon butcher you trust. This look uses the 3-2-1 method: 3 hours of low-and-slow indirect cooking, 2 hours successful aluminum foil, 1 hr retired of the foil (6 hours total).

Make the seasoning premix good successful beforehand truthful you tin conscionable sprinkle it connected erstwhile you’re acceptable to marque the ribs. You'll request to soak 2 cups of hardwood chips successful h2o for astatine slightest 1 hour, oregon usage 4 to 6 divided logs oregon astir 8 to 12 hardwood chunks, preferably oak, hickory, pecan oregon a combination.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 4)

• Calories

  1130

• Fat

  86 g

• Saturated Fat

  32 g

• Carbohydrates

  2 g

• Sodium

  2660 mg

• Cholesterol

  345 mg

• Protein

  83 g

• Fiber

  1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Tim Carman.