Elmers Bar B Que Baby Back Ribs Recipes

BABY BACK RIBS (SMOKER, OVEN, OR OVEN-TO-GRILL)

Steps:

• Make the Spice Rub: In a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar, salt, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, oregano, ground mustard, and cayenne pepper.
• Preheat the smoker to 225°F or the oven to 300°F. (If using the oven, set one rack in the middle position and one rack in the top position.)
• Remove the membrane that coats the underside of each rack of ribs. Using a butter knife, loosen the membrane around one of the end bones, scraping it away from the ribs. Once you get under it, grab the membrane with a paper towel and peel it off. If you're lucky, it will come off all in one piece. (Alternatively, ask your butcher to do this for you.)
• Coat the ribs evenly on both sides with about half of the spice rub. Allow the ribs to sit for about 15 minutes to "sweat" and absorb the rub, then coat the racks with the remainder of the rub. It will seem like too much rub but it's not - use it all.
• Smoker Method: Place the spice-coated ribs in the smoker and cook for 2 hours. Remove the ribs from the smoker and double wrap each rack in heavy-duty foil. Return to the smoker for 1½ hours. Remove the foil-wrapped ribs from the smoker (hot grease may drip out of the foil, so be careful). Carefully unwrap, leaving the ribs on the foil, and brush to the top of each rack with about 3 tablespoons of the BBQ sauce. Fold the edges of the foil around the ribs, creating a makeshift "pan" for each rack. Place the racks back in the smoker on the foil and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour more, or until the racks are tender. To determine if they're done, lift them from the center with tongs - if they bend easily and the meat "cracks" on top, they are ready. Let the ribs cool for about 10 minutes, then slice and serve.
• Oven or Oven-to-Grill Method: Line a baking sheet with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Place the spice-coated ribs on the prepared pan, cover the pan tightly with foil, and bake until tender, about 2 hours. Turn the oven to broil. Remove the foil from the ribs and brush each rack with 3 tablespoons of the barbecue sauce. Broil until the sauce just starts to bubble and caramelize, 2 to 4 minutes. Keep a close eye on the ribs while they're under the broiler; because of the sugar in the rub and sauce, they will quickly go from nicely caramelized to burnt. (Alternatively, you can skip the broiling and finish the ribs on the grill. Preheat the grill to medium and grill the baked racks for 10 to 15 minutes, brushing occasionally with the BBQ sauce until charred in spots and heated through. Adjust heat as necessary to prevent burning.) Let the ribs cool for about 10 minutes, then slice and serve.
• Reheating/Freezing Instructions:The cooked ribs will keep in a covered container in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days, or they can be frozen for up to 3 months. To reheat, thaw the ribs overnight in refrigerator if necessary, then place on a foil-lined baking sheet. Brush the ribs with another layer of BBQ sauce and cover tightly with foil. Warm in a 250°F oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until warmed through. Remove the foil and continue cooking for 10 to 15 minutes to allow the sauce to set and the bark to crisp up.

ELMER'S BAR-B-QUE BABY BACK RIBS

Steps:

• 1. Ribs: wash off the blood and slice as you would want to serve them. Set aside
• 2. In a large bowl pour in the vinegar, water and worcestershire sauce and mix well.
• 3. Take the ribs and rub with meat tenderizer. Place them in the bowl. Dump in the coarse crushed red pepper and with your hands mix the ribs and pepper all around in the vinegar. Wrap with foil and place in the refrigerator for about 5 to 6 hours. Bring back out about an hour before cooking to allow meat to come to room temp.
• 4. I grill on a cast iron char coal grill so I use about 10 lbs. of coal. Place the ribs on the grill when coals have began to turn a little white close the lid and allow to cook slowly and turn on both sides until done. When done take the sauce and dip the ribs down in it and place back on grill and let heat on both sides a few minutes to lock in the flavor.
• 5. Sauce: In a large stock pot put the butter in and turn on medium heat. Let the butter melt. Chop and dice the onion, then put in the butter with the pressed garlic. Let onions slowly become tender. Add in the pepper, salt, brown sugar, mustard, celery seed,vinegar and lemon juice. Let this slowly cook for about 20 minutes with the lid on the pot. But go and stir often. Now add in the texas pete and worchestershire sauce and stir for a bout 3 minutes while heat is still on.
• 6. Now add in the ketchup and stir to mix in. Add about a cup of water to the bottle and shake well to gather up all the ketchup that is left behind. Pour into the pot then keep stirring while it comes to a gentle roll. Cook another 15 minutes.
• 7. The taste test: Daddy always took a slice of bread and dipped a corner down in the sauce to taste the flavor and see if it met his approval. When it taste tart and hot he knew it was ready for his ribs.

BARBECUED RIBS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Cut ribs into 6 serving pieces. Place ribs, meaty sides down, in shallow roasting pan, about 13x9 inches.
• Bake uncovered 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, in 1-quart saucepan, heat sauce ingredients over medium heat, stirring frequently, until butter is melted. (Or microwave sauce ingredients in 1-cup microwavable measuring cup on High about 30 seconds or until butter is melted.)
• Brush sauce over ribs, using pastry brush. Turn ribs over, using tongs, Brush meaty sides of ribs with sauce.
• Bake uncovered about 45 minutes longer, brushing frequently with sauce, until ribs are tender and no longer pink next to bones. To serve any remaining sauce with ribs, heat sauce to boiling, stirring constantly, then continue to boil and stir 1 minute.

NO FAIL BBQ BABY BACK RIBS (GRILL)

Steps:

• Remove silver skin from bone side of ribs. Never used to do this, but now understand why the pros do. Using the tine of a dinner fork helps get things started, then it just peels off.
• Put a large sheet of foil on the counter and place the ribs meat side down. You want enough foil to VERY lightly wrap (or tent) the ribs for grilling.
• All the spice measurements above are estimates. We like things a bit on the zippy side, but not burning hot -- just a little bite. With that said, we season the bone side of the ribs heavy with garlic powder, medium heavy with cayenne, medium heavy with pepper, and light with salt. Really hard to over do it, as after 4+ hours on the grill, the spices seem to mellow.
• Flip the ribs and repeat the seasoning. Again, may look heavy, but the flavors kinda vanish during cooking. Why you need to try it once and adjust to taste the 2nd time. I never taste the garlic no matter how much I put on, but the cayenne does adjust the spiciness. Even when we go pretty heavy with the cayenne, it is not over-powering.
• Lightly wrap the ribs. You want to create a tent on top so the foil does not touch the meat. Pull up the ends lightly and seal. You do want to seal things so moisture does not escape. You can put these in the fridge all day, or put on the grill immediately.
• I have a Weber Genesis gas grill that has a front, center and rear burner. Don't have to pre-heat, but I only turn on the front burner to low-medium -- grill will heat to about 250 degrees. Place the ribs towards the rear of the grill (away from the burner). Leave them there for 2 hours. Nothing you need to do except make sure the temp stays around 250. 200 is fine, 300 is fine -- but lower seems to produce better results.
• After 2 hours, open the foil and coat with BBQ sauce. Should be a lot of juice in the foil at this point. If not, add some water, beer, or something. Re-seal the foil and let them go another 2 hours.
• Now the tricky part. Pull the ribs towards the front the grill. Get a couple wide spatulas, open the foil, and carefully lift the rack of ribs from the foil and place directly on the center of the grill. At this point, the ribs will be pretty much done. Remove the foil from the grill. Turn on all the burners and coat the ribs with sauce. Close the lid. Things should start smoking from the sauce dripping and burning. If things are not smoking, turn up the heat. Keep an eye on things at this point. You do want a nice char, but you don't want to overdo it. Maybe 10-20 minutes for this step.
• Get the 2 spatulas and remove to a cookie sheet or platter. Enjoy.
• If you like Sweet Baby Ray's Original, you will like these. Fall off the bone every single time, and they require very little effort or attention. You can adjust the base seasoning to your liking. I have made these with the same general recipe and process from anywhere between 3 hours and 6 hours with very little loss in outcome. Hence the reason I call it "no fail".

BAKED BBQ BABY BACK RIBS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Mix ancho chile powder, white sugar, brown sugar, salt, black pepper, cumin, dry mustard, cayenne pepper, and chipotle pepper in a small bowl until combined.
• Place ribs meat-side down on aluminum foil. Prick back of rib rack several times with a knife.
• Generously apply coating of dry rub to all sides of rib rack.
• With rib rack meat-side down, fold foil around it to create a tight seal. Transfer to sheet pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until tender and cooked through, about 2 hours. Remove and cool 15 minutes.
• Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Open foil, drain and discard any accumulated juices and fat. Brush barbeque sauce on all sides of rack.
• Place rack meat-side up and return to oven, leaving foil open. Bake for 10 minutes, remove from oven, and brush another layer of barbeque sauce on meat-side only. Repeat baking and brushing with sauce 4 more times, for a total of 50 minutes baking time.
• Cut rack into individual rib segments and serve with more barbeque sauce.

ELMER'S BAR-B-QUE SAUCE & CHAR-GRILLED CHICKEN

Steps:

• 1. In a large stockpot melt one stick of butter. Slice the onion thin and add to the hot butter. Slowly cook until tender with the garlic, salt, red pepper, and black pepper.
• 2. When onions are tender add the mustard and stir till dissolved.
• 3. Add the vinegar, bottle of Worchestershire, Texas Pete, apple cider vinegar, and brown sugar. Stir until well-blended. Cover the pot and allow to cook about 5 minutes not burning.
• 4. Add the ketchup and stir until blended well. Add water to the ketchup bottle about halfway. Shake well to mix leftover ketchup in it. Stir well and bring to a simmer.
• 5. Let sauce simmer stirring often.
• 6. Prepare the grill with the charcoal and let embers have a little white ash top before placing clean chicken over the coals. Grill about 30 min on skin side down first flip and grill 30 min on the other side.
• 7. Once the chicken is done, submerge in the pot of barbeque sauce and lay back on the grill. Let cook a few minutes on both sides to set in the chargrilled sauce flavor. Watch carefully as not to let burn at this stage.
• 8. We cover our grill all the way when cooking the chickens. After the chicken starts cooking, the coals will want to flame up. This is when we close the open vented grill. You should know how to adjust the airflow if you are an outdoor griller.
• 9. It is important to know this sauce is best used over chicken cooked on charcoal. It just achieves its best flavor that way. Once the chicken is done daddy would submerge the chicken into the sauce and cook a little longer on each side not to burn just to set the flavor. If you are grilling ribs and want to use this sauce, add celery seed about a tablespoon to the recipe and I don't know why daddy said so and I do it.