Grilled Spares

[Toby Keil]

Last night around 5:30, I got a wild hair and decided I wanted to grill something so off to the store I went. I found a nice rack of spares on sale so I picked them up and brought them home, opened and rinsed with cold water. I didn’t trim, just removed the membrane. Once the membrane was off, I sprinkled with salt and pepper then added some Wolfe Bold and on the grill they went. As I was enjoying a cold beverage while the ribs started to cook, I happened to look over at my lemon tree and thought “I wonder how lemon would taste on the ribs?” so I picked one, cut into quarters and squeezed some on, I did this about every twenty minutes and ended up using the whole lemon. Once the ribs were about a half hour away from coming off, I basted with some jacked up Sweet Baby Rays. Overall they were pretty good and the lemon added an interesting taste. Next time I do spares on the smoker I’m gonna try a rack with lemon juice.

On the grill just after added lemon juice.

On the grill and basted with Sweet Baby Rays.

Off the grill and ready to dig in.

 

[Captain Morgan]

beautiful

 

[Griff]

Well done Toby.

 

[BluzQue]

Primo Ribs! Toby


8)

 

[ScottyDaQ]

Yum!

Lemon on ribs is good ! Try it with just salt and pepper some time

 

[Que~Dawg]

Nice ribage Toby

 

[surfinsapo]

They look good. What was the biggest difference in your opinion between this method and your usual method as far as flavor and tenderness.

 

[Toby Keil]

They look good. What was the biggest difference in your opinion between this method and your usual method as far as flavor and tenderness.

I do prefer my ribs cooked on the smoker as the slow cook leads to a more tender rib, these were good but not as moist as I like. I'll definitely try using lemon juice again though. What I need to do is kick in some money for Larry's rub ingredients because I would live to try Wolfe Citrus with lemon juice and I'm out of his citrus rub now.

 

[Big Bears BBQ]

Looks perfect....................

 

[Puff1]

Those look awesome Toby 8)

 

[john a]

Works for me Toby, very nice.

 

[007bond-jb]

Yeah works for me too