On Sep 14, 7:43*pm, "Brick" > wrote:
> On 14-Sep-2009, Dana > wrote:
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> > I cooked ribs on Saturday, the usual gig. *Started with 6 racks of
> > baby-backs, trimmed-down to 7-ish bone racks for consistency.
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> > Sunday, I had a bag of rib trimmings, 3-4 bone racks and such. *So I
> > figured I'd have some fun, prepped them just like I would for smoking,
> > put them in the oven and followed the same basic time/temperature/
> > seasoning recipe I normally do, except I brushed the ribs with smoky/
> > sweet KC Masterpiece a little before they were done, thinking the
> > smoke in the sauce might help.
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> > The result were tender, smokeless, colorless ribs that were dead
> > ringers for pretty much all the mediocre "barbecue ribs" I've had in
> > restaurants before I knew what was barbecue was. *This experiment
> > wasn't without value - it's nice to be reminded of just how vastly
> > superior proper barbecue is.
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> > Dana
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> Nice to see you still lurking around here now and then Dana. For
> those of you Johnny come latelys, Dana got me into the minion
> method of fire building many years ago. I think he since gave up
> on his offset smoker, but I'm a slow learner, so I continue to make
> 'Q' in/on the old NB Silver smoker.

Yup, I'm mostly cooking Q in a WSM+DigiQ these days, but
I sure had a good time with the Silver Smoker and learned a
heck of a lot with it. I don't think you're a slow learner, not for
a minute :-)

Good to hear from you, Brick.

Dana