Need help with smoking/grilling ribs

[Howard]

Unfortunately, it seems like the charcoal grill I'll be using will be small and won't have a cover. I suppose this means that I'll have to turn the direct heat into indirect, somehow.

Should I lay foil over the charcoal?

 

[tfinch2]

If you're going to smoke ribs, don't use charcoal. Use wood.

 

[Howard]

I do have some hickory chips...

EDIT: That isn't the problem. I want to know how I can cook them without turning them into burnt sticks.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Use a Dutch oven.

 

[Siddhartha]

Get an electric smoker. I have one, it does great with ribs. I am going to try a shoulder next.

 

[mundane]

Complete tangent: I searched Wikipedia to figure out WTH a Dutch Oven was (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_oven), and found this jewel of the vernacular under "Other uses in popular culture". Seems like content you'd expect from urbandictionary.com, not wikipedia.

The term "Dutch oven" is also jokingly used to refer to the act of farting in bed, then pulling the covers up over another's head, so as to trap them with the stench. It may stem from the fact that the Dutch are seen as cheap, and this definition of dutch oven has free gas.

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

you can always use an oven and use alton brown's baking method. i recomend it espically since you dont have a lid.

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_11125,00.html

here's the link to the recepie

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: PaNsyBoy8
you can always use an oven and use alton brown's baking method. i recomend it espically since you dont have a lid.

Alton Brown Rocks. 🙂

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

Originally posted by: PaNsyBoy8
you can always use an oven and use alton brown's baking method. i recomend it espically since you dont have a lid.

Alton Brown Rocks. 🙂

 

[iwearnosox]

Im putting ribs on my kamado in the morning. Yay, ribs! 🙂

 

[potato28]

Take lighter fluid, dump some onto charcoal. Let it sit for a few minutes. Light, watch , and wait for about 20 minutes or until u see the coals are red. Take ur wood chips, put some on and put the ribs on. Keep putting wood chips onto the coals as needed. Check meat, flip, check, and then eat?

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: potato28
Take lighter fluid, dump some onto charcoal. Let it sit for a few minutes. Light, watch , and wait for about 20 minutes or until u see the coals are red. Take ur wood chips, put some on and put the ribs on. Keep putting wood chips onto the coals as needed. Check meat, flip, check, and then eat?

I think he was looking for a low and slow cook.