Two slabs of bone-in smoked beef ribs.

These smoked beef ribs are coated with a simple rub of salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, and onion and then cooked low and dull on your smoker. Definitely satisfy that primal urge to gnaw meat from a bone. They're one of the all-time things we've ever thrown downwards on the smoker.

Two slabs of bone-in smoked beef ribs.

If you accept yet to feel the unparalleled aroma and gustation of smoked beefiness ribs left for hours over smoldering hard wood, and then this recipe needs to jettison to the elevation of your must-make list. Call your butcher. Cancel your Sat plans. Fire upwardly the smoker. And ready to be enthralled.–Angie Zoobkoff

Smoked Beef Ribs

Two slabs of bone-in smoked beef ribs.

Y'all can fume the ribs equally private ribs, or yous tin take your butcher leave them every bit one large rack that you lot cleave when done. These are sometimes called dinosaur ribs, like what Fred Flintstone eats at the bulldoze-in.

Jake Levin

Prep 30 mins

Cook 7 hrs xxx mins

Total 8 hrs

  • Smoker, wood chips, chunks, or pellets (depending on your smoker), spray canteen

For the beefiness barbecue rub

  • 1/ii loving cup fine sea salt
  • 1/2 loving cup ground black pepper
  • iii tablespoons sugariness paprika
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • one tablespoon onion powder
  • one teaspoon basis cayenne pepper

For the smoked beefiness ribs

  • ane (v-pound) iii-bone rack of beef plate short ribs*
  • H2o cider vinegar, or a combination

Make the beefiness barbecue rub

  • In an airtight container, mix the rub ingredients together. Embrace and store it in a cool, dry identify for up to several months.

Make the smoked beef ribs

  • Nearly an hr before smoking, sprinkle 1/4 cup of the rub on the ribs and utilise your easily to spread it evenly. Reserve the remaining rub for other uses.

  • Prepare a smoker per manufacturer's directions for a temperature betwixt 225° and 275°F (110° and 135°C). Toss the wood chips, chunks, or pellets in the smokebox or use them per manufacturer's directions.

  • Place your ribs, fatty side up, in the smoker. Place a pan of water below or near the ribs to help go on some wet in the surroundings and fill a spray canteen with h2o, cider vinegar, or a combination of both.

  • Smoke the ribs, existence certain to maintain the smoker temperature and add wood as needed and occasionally spritz the ribs with the spray bottle, until the ribs are a very deep brown and reach an internal temperature of 165°F (74°C), 2 to half dozen hours, depending on the exact temperature of your smoker and the thickness of the ribs.

  • Remove the ribs from the smoker and wrap in heavy-duty aluminum foil or pinkish butcher's newspaper (non freezer paper, which is ofttimes coated with chemicals).

  • Return the ribs to the smoker and proceed cooking until they reach an internal temperature of 200°F (95°C) and the meat is exceptionally tender, 2 to 3 hours more.

  • Keep the ribs wrapped and let them rest for 1 hour before serving with napkins aplenty.

*What are beef plate ribs?

Beef plate ribs are the Fred Flinstone version of barbecue. As well called Dinosaur ribs, these ribs can be grilled individually or they can exist left as a large rack that gets carved after cooking. Having them cut lengthwise is a particularly impressive mode to serve them. Besides the stupendous size, beef ribs tend to have more gelled fat running through the meat and it gets rendered down in the grilling, making the ribs like eating brisket or a really proficient steak.

Serving: 1 rib Calories: 1024 kcal (51%) Carbohydrates: 17 m (6%) Protein: 108 g (216%) Fat: 57 one thousand (88%) Saturated Fatty: 24 g (150%) Cholesterol: 326 mg (109%) Sodium: 1042 mg (45%) Potassium: 2346 mg (67%) Fiber: 7 g (29%) Saccharide: ane g (ane%) Vitamin A: 1970 IU (39%) Vitamin C: 1 mg (1%) Calcium: 146 mg (fifteen%) Fe: 15 mg (83%)


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Originally published July 30, 2019

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