Smoothsmoke
Babbling Farker
A heads up to everyone in So Cal. Spares are on sale starting today at Ralphs grocery stores at .99 cents a pound. A damn good price if you ask me.
Southern California $.99/lb Spares
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che22879
is one Smokin' Farker
thanks for the heads up!
Carbon
is Blowin Smoke!
Thanks, I saw the ad but have not been to the market yet. I hope they're not the one's that come in frozen 10lb boxes from Denmark. I've had mixed results with those before and the racks were very small. They tend to bring these out once or twice every year. Vons market too, same product.
che22879
is one Smokin' Farker
I got those for labor day and they were very disappointing. Extremely small.
leanza
Babbling Farker
"Denmark Alert"..."Denmark Alert"....... Although I thought only Vons sold the Dennies?.
kyle corn
is one Smokin' Farker
It does say "FRESH" spare ribs, does that not mean anything? I thought they can't mark previously frozen as "fresh".
Anyways, so what's the problem with these Denmark ribs? They're just small or is the flavor lacking too?
Smoothsmoke
Babbling Farker
If these aren't any good, Smart and Final has some at $1.69
JediDog
is one Smokin' Farker
I would stick that, can't beat farmer John brand.
Smoothsmoke
Babbling Farker
I just spoke with the butcher. He said they are expecting a shipment of fresh spares tomorrow morning, most likely farmer john brand. If that is the case, I'm loading up big time. :thumb:
Carbon
is Blowin Smoke!
Ok, I'm buying then! :-D
Smoothsmoke
Babbling Farker
Just picked up some slabs a few minutes ago. They are not Farmer John. They are Prairie Fresh brand, cryovac.
Bigmista
somebody shut me the fark up.
I prefer those to Farmer John
che22879
is one Smokin' Farker
same here
kyle corn
is one Smokin' Farker
I went to a Ralphs and was disappointed to find that they cut EVERY rack right down the middle! :crazy: Some of them probably would have been OK, but would have produced very small ribs. Some of them were BAD and very tiny, probably would have been OK as bean meat.
I dug through the case and found one rack that was acceptable, it was trimmed pretty much like a St. Louis, so I bought that for $3. The guy told me I can go back tonight and they'll have a new shipment in and will leave some uncut for me. My friend went to another Ralphs and they had cryos available. The only downside is the 3 rack max per person.
I dug through the case and found one rack that was acceptable, it was trimmed pretty much like a St. Louis, so I bought that for $3. The guy told me I can go back tonight and they'll have a new shipment in and will leave some uncut for me. My friend went to another Ralphs and they had cryos available. The only downside is the 3 rack max per person.
Carbon
is Blowin Smoke!
I picked up some of those yesterday. I will smoke a couple of racks in the pizza oven tomorrow.
They also had individual racks, non-cryovac, for 99 cents/lb as well. I did not get those.
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HB-BBQ
is One Chatty Farker
That cut is called a Santa Barbara style and seem to be common with the Farmer Johns. I bought cryo packed ones from Albertsons once thinking they were St. Louis cut, live and learn i guess.
I only go to Costco and RD for my spares. Sam's carries the Prairie Fresh brand which are good but pricey. My wife was just there this morning and said they were $3.99# ouch. I had her stop by Costco and they were 1.99#.
Thanks for the heads up on the Ralphs ones Smoothsmoke.
kyle corn
is one Smokin' Farker
Thing is, I spoke with the butcher and he admitted that they arrived complete and in cryos and that according to him, "97% of our customers request them cut in half" so he said when they arrived they just "banged them out" and cut every single rack in half.
Carbon
is Blowin Smoke!
That is so wrong. These customers want them like that so they can fit them boiling pots or what?....lol....
HB-BBQ
is One Chatty Farker
I guess that leaves you, me and the rest of the Brethern in the minority :roll:
Carbon
is Blowin Smoke!
It's funny, every time I go to my local Asian market the butcher asks me how I want the slab cut. I once told him I wanted it cut St Louis style and he had no idea what I was talking about.....I kinda expected that.
