Another simple rib poll

smoke ninja · Mar 8, 2014

I've done a few and have one more after this. Ill post conclusions when I'm done.

Do you take the membrane off when cooking ribs? I'm talking in the backyard here.

c farmer · Mar 8, 2014

I take mine off.

Bludawg · Mar 8, 2014

Leave it on

GoolsbyMD · Mar 8, 2014

There was another poll about this two weeks ago I think.. Maybe. But it was almost perfectly split 50/50. I'll see if I can find it.

JazzyBadger · Mar 8, 2014

When I first started cooking ribs I'd take the membrane off and trim them all down to a nice St. Louis style. Now I can't be bothered. I take them out of the cryo, season them, and throw them on the W.S.M. Typically I skewer them because when I cook ribs it's a biiiig thing and there's almost always country style ribs on there and a pot of some sort of beans, so I need the room.
Only one of my sons likes spare ribs, so we get to chow down on three racks all to ourselves. Ohhh yeah.

sliding_billy · Mar 9, 2014

I leave them. I actually like the texture better with the membrane.

Jack Daniels · Mar 9, 2014

I'm a puller ever time comp, home, whatever.

campdude · Mar 9, 2014

I've done them both ways, but mostly I pull it off and trim to St Louis style.

Mo-Dave · Mar 9, 2014

jazzybadger said:
When I first started cooking ribs I'd take the membrane off and trim them all down to a nice St. Louis style. Now I can't be bothered. I take them out of the cryo, season them, and throw them on the W.S.M. Typically I skewer them because when I cook ribs it's a biiiig thing and there's almost always country style ribs on there and a pot of some sort of beans, so I need the room.
Only one of my sons likes spare ribs, so we get to chow down on three racks all to ourselves. Ohhh yeah.

I do much the same, but what is this skewering thing you speak of?
Dave

dadsr4 · Mar 9, 2014

I remove the membrane. Everyone I cook for likes the texture better without the membrane. The only time I have seen meat left on the bones is when the membrane is left on. Such a waste!

Diesel Dave · Mar 9, 2014

Yup take it off here too............................oh yeah pull the membrane as well :heh:

Mo-Dave · Mar 9, 2014

I voted other, because sometime not often, I take it off, mostly leave it on, so I am on again, off again.
Dave

THoey1963 · Mar 9, 2014

I took mine off...

Mo-Dave, that avatar is freaky... :shock:

Enrico Brandizzi · Mar 9, 2014

I took it off

cholloway · Mar 9, 2014

I voted depends. Same answer for my underwear.

Fwismoker · Mar 9, 2014

Leave on....higher heat melts it off.

pjtexas1 · Mar 9, 2014

I never used to remove but once I switched to hot and fast they come out so much better with the membrane on. The membrane protects the ribs from the direct heat and pretty much melts away.

landarc · Mar 9, 2014

I almost always remove the membrane. I have cooked both ways and prefer the membrane off. That being said, if I was doing a large picnic cook over fire, I might leave it on and cook bone down.

danno79 · Mar 9, 2014

I voted depends, not for my underwear though,LOL. When I do ribs, and I like to do Spareribs, if its frozen, I take it out of cryo, rub it, leaving membrane on, steam it with a 4"deep full size pan, and a 2' deep full size slotted pan for 45 min. to 1 hour, depends, LOL. If its thawed, I remove the membrane, rub it, then smoke it. Depends, but that's just me.

Firefighter · Mar 9, 2014

Off for me as well.

Another simple rib poll

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