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Question on cooking ribs

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Parrotheader

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Usually when we cook ribs we follow the following general procedure:

1) Soak/boil ribs for several hours to tenderize meat
2) Bake ribs in oven to cook meat
3) Grill for a few minutes to finish cooking and blacken while applying BBQ sauce

Obviously there's a bit more detail to it than that, but that recipe generally produces fantastic results. However, my father-in-law gave me some ribs yesterday that he picked up from the store that already had BBQ sauce applied to them, but the meat hasn't been cooked yet. He did the same thing last year and I just threw them straight onto the grill to try and slowly cook them. But with all the sauce on them they quickly burned. What would be the best way too cook them if the sauce is already on there? Wrap them in tinfoil and grill them?
 
Put them in indirect heat (i.e. to the side of the grill, not over the coals)
Brining them for ~2 hours is a good way to get started if they're not marinated.

FWIW, Cook's Illustrated did an empirical study on the best way to cook ribs.

They did various combinations of boiling, baking, brining, and grilling.

They found that brining + indirect grilling heat + dry rub made the best ribs.
 
I didn't even know what brining was until I looked it up just now. Actually, that looks a lot like what my wife does with them when she's soaking them since she's adding all sorts of salt and spices to the mix.

I think I'm going to try the procedure similar to what we've done in the past, I'll just have to do it with the sauce already on them. I'm going to wrap them in foil and bake them for a bit then slowly grill them (probably still in foil.) Hopefully it'll turn out ok. Thanks for the feedback.
 
the reason why boiling works is b/c it cooks them on slow heat. Any slow heat method works. Just keep the temp to about 200 and youwill end up with tender juicy ribs.

 
Originally posted by: Parrotheader
Usually when we cook ribs we follow the following general procedure:

1) Soak/boil ribs for several hours to tenderize meat
2) Bake ribs in oven to cook meat
3) Grill for a few minutes to finish cooking and blacken while applying BBQ sauce

Obviously there's a bit more detail to it than that, but that recipe generally produces fantastic results. However, my father-in-law gave me some ribs yesterday that he picked up from the store that already had BBQ sauce applied to them, but the meat hasn't been cooked yet. He did the same thing last year and I just threw them straight onto the grill to try and slowly cook them. But with all the sauce on them they quickly burned. What would be the best way too cook them if the sauce is already on there? Wrap them in tinfoil and grill them?
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I do it exactly this way most of the time. But if i'm using a dry rub, i'll just toss it on the grill without preboiling it, but cook it much more slowly, and they turn out great as well. Not too sure what your problem is. How 'slow' are you slow cooking them? It should be a couple of hours at least.
 
Baking the ribs before grilling them with BBQ Sauce is a good idea, but putting them in a smoker for a few hours is even tastier! Yum! 😀
 
Well, I ended up slowly baking them at about 325-350 degrees for an hour wrapped in tin foil to keep the BBQ juices in. Then I kept them in the tin foil and cooked them slowly on the grill for the next 45 minutes. They turned out great! Good eats. Yummm!
 
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