Simple spares

sudsandswine

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After doing a couple cooks of “competition style” spares for various gatherings we attended, I was kinda over pig candy and wanted to experiment with something more on the savory end of the spectrum, with a nod to oldskool KC flavors. I ended up just taking my 2:2:1:1 by weight coarse pepper, kosher salt, granulated garlic, and granulated onion mix as a base, then added some paprika, brown sugar, and raw/turbinado sugar to taste. I didn’t want the prominent note to be sweet but did need to offset the salt and pepper. The MSU rub ended up working pretty well, I’d use it again but swap out the restaurant grind black pepper for something slightly more fine. Small detail.

Started out with some full spares, I think this rack was just under 5.5lbs.

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Ends and tips were deboned for sausage grind fodder, my favorite thing to use for sausage. Nice slab, it’ll cook.

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Seasoned up

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75% of the way there, hickory and pecan for smoke. Primo XL @ 275*ish

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All done, turned out pretty tasty. I haphazardly squirted a small amount of Joe’s KC sauce on my serving to complete the package.

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Thanks for lookin’ :thumb:
 
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Woah, the slab gave you plenty to work with..... and the rack was outstanding. :clap: The last picture says it all.

I’ve been shopping for certain things at a grocery store I hadn’t frequented much and they’ve had spares semi reasonably priced in light of recent price hikes lately. They’re Smithfield, which I kind of stopped cooking because Costco and Sam’s don’t carry them (although Sams used to carry Smithfield Prime for a brief time which I really liked). I have kind of taken a liking to them, they’re aways very well marbled, no processing “surprises”, and good flavor.

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Hard to pass by these in the bin and not take em home
 
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