Beef short rib failure

LordRiffenstein · Nov 20, 2018

Had guitar friends over for a weekend of loud guitars, beer and BBQ. Decided to do short ribs. Had bought Simmental ribs, had them before and came out great, fantastic marbling on them.

SPOG and Black Ops, on the Traeger at 250F until I liked the color, then wrap in BP. Probing tender after about 6.5 hours so let them rest for about 2.5 hours in the oven at 158F.

They looked and tasted great but they were dry. Not sure what happened, I vented them for about 15mins before putting them in the oven. Did notice both packages had a hole thru the BP from a bone. The beer brined pork roast we also had was a winner.

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sudsandswine · Nov 20, 2018

They look pretty good from this vantage point :thumb:

rwalters · Nov 20, 2018

They look great, but that’s a bummer! It’s frustrating when you invest the $$ in good meat and it comes out anything other than fantastic. First world problems are the worst...

razorbrewer · Nov 20, 2018

LordRiffenstein said:
SPOG and Black Ops, on the Traeger at 250F until I liked the color, then wrap in BP. Probing tender after about 6.5 hours so let them rest for about 2.5 hours in the oven at 158F.

They looked and tasted great but they were dry. Not sure what happened, I vented them for about 15mins before putting them in the oven. Did notice both packages had a hole thru the BP from a bone.

Have you ever checked your oven temp with a probe or thermometer? Oven temps can vary significantly from their readout and can also have major temp swings. Could be that the 2.5 hours in the oven overcooked them.

Mike Twangzer · Nov 20, 2018

Doesn't look dry to me. I doubt there were any complaints. The cook is your worse critic.

EyeBurnEverything · Nov 20, 2018

They look good from here, but they look like they could have been cooked a little longer before being put into the oven. When i do a 4 bone short rib plate i cook around 275-300F for almost 9 hours before it was probe tender.

Big George's BBQ · Nov 20, 2018

I would hit that

fwdiii · Nov 20, 2018

Those ribs look real good from here!! Too bad how they actually turned out.

LordRiffenstein · Nov 21, 2018

razorbrewer said:
Have you ever checked your oven temp with a probe or thermometer? Oven temps can vary significantly from their readout and can also have major temp swings. Could be that the 2.5 hours in the oven overcooked them.

It's a 1.5 year old Wolf cooker so I doubt it's off by much.
And I've done the same before and had short ribs and brisket resting in there for 4-5 hours without drying out.

LordRiffenstein · Nov 21, 2018

EyeBurnEverything said:
They look good from here, but they look like they could have been cooked a little longer before being put into the oven. When i do a 4 bone short rib plate i cook around 275-300F for almost 9 hours before it was probe tender.

They were probe tender and I was getting ITs of 200F-201F.
I do think I should have kept them on another 30mins but the probing felt right.

sthamm · Nov 21, 2018

Have any pics closer up? Hard to tell, but maybe over rendered the fat? I've done a slab of beef ribs before where one portion of the slab wouldn't probe tender until much later than the rest. By the time it probed tender in that stubborn area, the slab was overdone, over rendered and dry.

bschoen · Nov 21, 2018

I would rather have your "failures" than much of the stuff I have eaten from name restaurants.

Smoking Piney · Nov 21, 2018

They sure look great!

BillN · Nov 21, 2018

I double wrap them in foil when they come off the smoker then pack in towels in a cooler, they will hold many hours with no risk of drying out.

LordRiffenstein · Nov 22, 2018

Let's set of this works.

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AggieBoilerQ · Nov 22, 2018

You lie. They are awesome tasting from over here. :grin:

mtmota · Nov 25, 2018

I’ll tell you next time leave the fat... remove some of the silver but even if you leave some of that it will be gone at the end of a long cook. Perhaps think of wrapping with paper maybe half way through...

Results are repeatable...

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