HolySmoke77
Knows what a fatty is.
Any suggestions on where I would have a decent chance of buying some quality ribs for comps. I see too many pics of straight perfect ribs...where in the H### are they purchasing them?
Straightness of ribs is hardly an issue of concern for me. Cook them right and have some knife skills. Done
By knife skills, do you mean cut through the bone?
Not cutting through the bone. Just careful selection, trimming and cutting of the ribs. I use smaller ribs, so the curvature isn't as much of an issue. I suppose if you are using a larger 4.5+, you would run into this issue more often.
Hi So where do you get your smaller ribs from? I'm in Paramus, always looking for some good ribs to smoke.
Thanks DanB
Don't know if there's a Kroger near you, but they sell single cryopacked ribs.
For that matter, ANY single crypacked ribs allow you to see the bones in each rack. Usually by sorting through what's in the case you can find 3 or 4 racks that are nice and straight.
Even then, we sometimes need to be "creative" on how we slice up the individual bones for the box. If you're good you can "fake it" pretty well. As Ron said, the presentation in the box may LOOK like they're perfectly straight rib bones, but a good rib slicer can fool you. Rarely do we see a perfect rack of ribs where all the bones are perfectly spaced and straight. They almost always "crawl" to one side as you go down the rack. You just have to know how to work around that.
Straight or not, the best tasting ribs always go in the box and more times than we'd like, the ugliest rack will taste the best, so you have to learn how to slice with some skill.
What wampus is saying is that you do not have to cut parellel to the bone on your cuts. You might have to angle your cut so that their might be more meat on the top or bottom of the rib, which will make the rib look straight.