OK, Farkanauts, I've sat idly by for far too long....
INCOMING!!!
The boy is at Grandma's for the week, so it's just the wife and I. Found some excellent fresh spares at Costco this morning. Local grocer has a special on sweet corn at $0.25 an ear, so I picked up a few ears, along with a couple potatoes....and of course, 2 fatties.
Spares, rinsed and trimmed
Dusted both racks with turbinado sugar, then hit the top one with 3 Little Pigs KC All Purpose and the bottom with 3 Little Pigs Touch of Cherry...
Spares on the smoker at 240* (stabilized shortly after at 270*)
About 2 hours in, added the corn and the potatoes (rubbed one with olive oil and 3LP KC All Purpose)
2 Fatties sliced: one rubbed with 3LP Touch of Cherry, and the other completely nekkid, just the way God intended...
Spares sauced (one rack with 3LP Spicy Chipotle and one with Head Country), and pulled after 3.5 hours...
Plated; unfortunately, not good enough for a money shot, as the flash farked things up on the potato...
Forgive my noobishness if I'm wrong, but I believe this is what's considered a perfect bite through...not a great background for the shot, but please use this for my entry.
Not the best ribs I've made, but farkin' close. I've never used 3LP Spicy Chipotle sauce before; while I love their KC BBQ sauce, this one seemed to have an overabundance of black pepper, which I didn't care for. The texture was perfect, though, and the rack with the cherry rub and Head Country sauce was excellent. I have a newfound love affair with smoked sweet corn; the slow cook really brings out the sweetness in the corn! It was so good tonight that I didn't even bother to add butter or S&P. I've never rubbed a potato before, and really enjoyed the flavor. The fatties...well, nekkid fatties are always the best, but I really loved the flavor of the cherry rub on that Jimmy Dean All Natural! Take that, Farkanauts!! Up next, the onslaught continues with...SPATCHCOCKED CHICKEN!!!