A stab at a weepin' slab! PICS

Pretty awesome cook, bro! :thumb: I hope you don't mind me posting your pics in line with the text. It makes it easier to read.


I gathered some rib spice help earlier to put this together for you. Hope the brethren realize how amazing all their posting is.

Little bit of minion method


followed by 3/4 of a chimney of lit and two chunks of hickory and the top vent


bottom vent


closed it up to let it even out the temp


wandered inside to start prep


rubbed the bones with s/p, garlic, onion, paprika, guajillo chile, rosemary powder, bay powder
rubbed the tips with s/p
tried a thin coat of honey and s/p on the scraps to see what would happen


temp settled in


2hr in


weep began 3hr15min in, shut down vents and removed some of the lit coals to bring the temp down, checked 10min later, pulled and rested


little bit of the "pig honey"


looked pretty good cut, smoke ring was weak because the pit moisture was low due to minimal amount of meat. I usually add a little water in a pan suspended just above the fire right before the meat goes on. That gives the moist environment needed for thick smoke rings.(I don't know the science behind it, just how this smoker acts.)


and it was dead on!


Thank you all! Especially Pitmaster T. That was one of the easiest racks to cook. The scraps with honey and s/p were excellent. Very bacon-esque. I don't know how honey would do in a longer time frame as the scraps were done at 2hr., but it could be an awesome rub glue for future slabs. The tips with s/p only were tasty. The bones with the multitude of spices were killer. I didn't add sauce to anything. It didn't need it.

P.S. Please don't rely on the this time frame. The smoker I used cuts 25-40% of cook time out due to double insulated walls and the draft system. Its basically like using a convection setting on a kitchen stove.

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Looks great and Boshizzle fixed your pics

That's a pretty unique looking smoker you got there, nice!

Yes, very unique smoker, it kinda looks like a dog house! Ribs look killer!

JS-TX said:

Yes, very unique smoker, it kinda looks like a dog house! Ribs look killer!

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Yeah, tell us more about that smoker.

Boshizzle said:

Yeah, tell us more about that smoker.

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Yeah that's what I was hinting at. I love seeing and hearing the stories about the different smokers and techniques others are using.

That's some mighty fine lookin' pig you made there!

nice lookin eats man!

I've got to simplify my rib cooks and stop that 3-2-1 stuff especially since I like a dry rib.

I Too have honed my rib techniques from pitmasterT about 2 years ago also. I don't ever think I said thank you Because I never posted. So thanks! Here was my vid
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I sooooo want to go back to Brenham. I went as a child. I want to take my kids there one day. I have boys 4 and 7

Nice ribs and smoker!

The ribs look really good. The "pull" off the bone looks perfect!

That smoker is pretty interesting! I dig it.

Pitmaster T said:

I sooooo want to go back to Brenham. I went as a child. I want to take my kids there one day. I have boys 4 and 7

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It's a nice quiet and peaceful countryside. I live on the farm I inherited from my grandfather. I never knew that after all that hard work I would be mine one day. Not much to do besides play pool, go to the movies, work around the farm, BBQ or drink beer. Next year when we get our house built, y'all should come down and stay in the guest house which really is a dairy camphouse tha i have remodeled. We got a pond, creek, artic cats, cows, archery targets, plenty of beer, BBQ pits and chit talkin! I'm game. We have had several pelletheads come down and spend the weekend with us

Pitmaster T said:

I sooooo want to go back to Brenham. I went as a child. I want to take my kids there one day. I have boys 4 and 7

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Who wouldn't want to go to a place that cow's think is heaven. Blue Bell ice cream refrence for those not in the know. I used to live in Houston and we would take weekend trips around there. It is beautiful.