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3-2-1 is one of the newer methods of doing ribs. The baseline is of course NOT the 3-2-1 method but actually usinging no foil at all.
The foil method was adopted as temperature Trends went downward (in the 225 range) and the desire to make a moist set of ribs that had not been subject to longer colder smoke times was needed. Foil method has made some really great braised ribs that have one many a KCBS championship.
I am not sure at all where the foil thing comes from as far as the Texas Crutch term as No one that I know that has been making BBQ ribs or brisket ever used it. Of course, my BBQ friends predate the Nixon Administration.
Now of course let me say I am not saying don't use the foil method, it is fine and I have enjoyed many a rib done this way as it is quite the fad. I only offer this as sort of respectful correction that 3-2-1 is not baseline in my def because it is not a traditional starting point. If you define it as the accepted method, however, I would say you have a good argument that it is a baseline point. As more and more backyard grillers enter into the fray, as well as those on the comp circuit, you tend to do what the accepted mode is.
The foil method was adopted as temperature Trends went downward (in the 225 range) and the desire to make a moist set of ribs that had not been subject to longer colder smoke times was needed. Foil method has made some really great braised ribs that have one many a KCBS championship.
I am not sure at all where the foil thing comes from as far as the Texas Crutch term as No one that I know that has been making BBQ ribs or brisket ever used it. Of course, my BBQ friends predate the Nixon Administration.
Now of course let me say I am not saying don't use the foil method, it is fine and I have enjoyed many a rib done this way as it is quite the fad. I only offer this as sort of respectful correction that 3-2-1 is not baseline in my def because it is not a traditional starting point. If you define it as the accepted method, however, I would say you have a good argument that it is a baseline point. As more and more backyard grillers enter into the fray, as well as those on the comp circuit, you tend to do what the accepted mode is.