Experimenting With Ribs

After attending the American Royal, I had all kinds of new ideas for flavor profiles.  So what better way to test them out then to make a bunch of ribs in different styles and feed them to my buddies to judge which is best.  So I made a rack of spares and a rack of baby backs for each recipe for evaluation.  6 racks in all.  Two were made purposely "toned down" for my kids to eat for dinner and the other 4 racks were full on high intensity competition flavor etc.

Below you can see 6 racks of ribs cooking on a rib rack on my PG1000.  All of the racks turned out pretty good, but there was a clear winner which will become the baseline comparison for future "enhancements."

"RRIIIIIIBBBBBSSS!" and beans...

So some friends of ours have us over and make some crazy good beans... and they were nice enough to give me the recipe.  Knowing I can cook about anything on the PG1000, I could not wait to get them on the pit for a trial run! My three year old daughter Jenna went shopping with me for "supplies" for the beans.  As we were walking through the store I asked her "What should we make to go with the beans?"  Her reply, "RRIIIIIBBBBSSS!"  I'm pretty sure everyone in the store heard her... It was one of my proudest moments as a father.

The beans were great - I made them with some pulled pork I had in the freezer, and the ribs weren't bad either.

Jenna was happy with them anyway... I guess that's what matters.

Ribs and Rib Tips on the PG1000

Mixing up some beans

Beans Ribs and Glaze on the pit

Getting there

Ribs are glazed

Done

Jenna is all smiles with her "RRIIIIBBBBSS"

Jackson liked them too

Poor Kelli was out of town and missed all the yum!  Hope she had fun at her "scrap-booking convention"