When to do Rub

[MichiganBill]

I'm gonna do back ribs tomorrow over at the folks. Just purchased my first batch of Texas BBQ Rub. It's some pretty powerful stuff, as most you you certainly know. Which raises a question---How soon before you put them in the smoker do you guys put this particular brand of rub on? Overnite? 4 hours? Just before?

Thanks

[jgh1204]

The night before if I can or just before cooking if I cant.

[Bad Santa]

Howdy Bill, welcome....I usually place the ribs into a tub and juice 'em and rub 'em just a few minutes before they go on the pit. If I'm just doing ribs then after I start my fire, I'll prep the ribs and let 'em set while the pit gets to temp and settles into its thing...then by that time the ribs have come up to room temp and the juice and rub has made a nice paste over the ribs and it's ready for the smoker. That's just 1 way you can do it....they don't have to set long and soak, they is ready when first rubbed down, that's the beauty of this :wink: rub.....Good luck with your cook and enjoy eating them.

[RibRater.com]

I've been rubbing BB's right before I toss them on. hasn't failed me yet.

Quite frankly, the ribs I get at places like smokey bones taste like salty ham to me and, while I can't confirm this, I;ve heard that this taste is often a by-product of leaving rub on ribs to long before you cook them.

If one of the more experienced people could comment on that I would appreciate it.

[bigwheel]

Well I dont claim to be real expurienced..but I got comments on everything ya know:) Hammy ribs can mostly be attributed to buying them factory pumped..as opposed to the non-enhanced models..or that is whut folks say anyway. Now as for me guess I like hammy ribs..and I think maybe Texas bbq judges must like em too. I have went to buy great links to drive across town to buy unpumped Swifts (they aint easy to find most times) only to have my hiney spanked royally at the cooking contest by somebody using little pumped hormels...so it aint necessarily a bad thing as far as I can tell. Now for a rub to be fully to blame for making em hammy..it would take some cure in the rub..such as but not limited to such things as Tender Quick Prague powder etc. Regular old rub shouldnt be allowed to be fully blamed. Now to make em too salty just takes too much salt and would intensify the saltiness the longer they was allowed to bask in it I think. Used to let mine swelter overnight in rub but about gave it up. Prob let it set on there about an hour or two should be plenty. Also keep your eyes peeled for unsalty ribs. They is a rib and chickken chokers best friend in my book. The Texas BBQ rub should fit the bill nicely. Now I have only tried it on chicken...but got hunch it would be good on ribs too.

bigwheel

[RibRater.com]

Gotcha. When I want ham I get a newsoms or a smithfield. My preference in ribs is smoky/spicy....very un-hamlike.


To date, I haven't purchased a set of ribs that came out hammy like smokey bones and some other local establishments. I'm sure they were just run of the mill ribs which means they were probably pumped full of some matter..but they didn't taste like ham when they were done.

Not sure then what exactly is causing that "cured" flavor on most restaurant ribs.

[bigwheel]

Well now dont get me to lying too heavy about restaruant ribs..cuz I aint had none in years. Most of the bbq places around here try to use good ribs St. Louis cut from Farmland was all the rage for a while. and most of them cook of the Southern Pride gassers or Oylers which they claim is strictly wood fired..and I know one which is telling the truth about that. I aint sure the others aint really electrified. Just recalled the last storebought rib I had come from the Railhead and cooked on an Oyler. It was mushy and bland with no smoke flavor. Did not taste near as good as ham. I aint sure how a person could mess em up that bad. Any idears?

bigwheel

[Bad Santa]

Messed up by a person trying to make a living selling bbq that has been seasoned w/a doctored-up, salty commercial Sysco rub as cheaply as possible, being massed produced, by a no-brainer, gas fired, faux smoke machine run by a young, uncaring employee who is thinkin' about gettin' off work asap, then sat and held til service then fired to crisp n glaze, would be my thought..... :wink:

[david brace]

Messed up by a person trying to make a living selling bbq that has been seasoned w/a doctored-up, salty commercial Sysco rub as cheaply as possible, being massed produced, by a no-brainer, gas fired, faux smoke machine run by a young, uncaring employee who is thinkin' about gettin' off work asap, then sat and held til service then fired to crisp n glaze, would be my thought..... :wink:
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DB

[wood_is_good]

Messed up by a person trying to make a living selling bbq that has been seasoned w/a doctored-up, salty commercial Sysco rub as cheaply as possible, being massed produced, by a no-brainer, gas fired, faux smoke machine run by a young, uncaring employee who is thinkin' about gettin' off work asap, then sat and held til service then fired to crisp n glaze, would be my thought..... :wink:


So tell us how you really feel about it :lol:

[vinman]

Messed up by a person trying to make a living selling bbq that has been seasoned w/a doctored-up, salty commercial Sysco rub as cheaply as possible, being massed produced, by a no-brainer, gas fired, faux smoke machine run by a young, uncaring employee who is thinkin' about gettin' off work asap, then sat and held til service then fired to crisp n glaze, would be my thought..... :wink:


Santa...you forgot to say pimple faced young uncaring employee.

[Bad Santa]

I stand corrected...Thanks vinman :lol:

[vinman]

I stand corrected...Thanks vinman :lol:

No problem :wink:
They are the main reason I'm not in the restaurant business these days.
Dang kids!

[WBC]

I'm gonna do back ribs tomorrow over at the folks. Just purchased my first batch of Texas BBQ Rub. It's some pretty powerful stuff, as most you you certainly know. Which raises a question---How soon before you put them in the smoker do you guys put this particular brand of rub on? Overnite? 4 hours? Just before?

Thanks

I've always done it just right before. That's one of the reasons to use rub, you don't have to let it sit.

[bigwheel]

Dang Santa just keeps getting mo badder and mo badder:) Do think he got storebought bbq all figgered out. Now I am prepared to be amazed on how good it is sometime..just aint happened yet. If somebody would only send me a bus ticket to Llano I would like to check out Cooper's Brisket. Yankees brag on it purty heavy..but a county mounty stationed up in Burnet say whilst Coopers was indeed tolerable it was the 2nd best bbq joint in Llano. He say the other place which aint got a name is mo betta. I am real cornfused. A crisp 20 to pay for the meal would also come in handy. I simply volunteering to this on behalf of the group. I mean I would hate for some far off person to make a trip all the way down there and find out it aint no good. Let me know.

bigwheel

[vinman]

Dang Santa just keeps getting mo badder and mo badder:) Do think he got storebought bbq all figgered out. Now I am prepared to be amazed on how good it is sometime..just aint happened yet. If somebody would only send me a bus ticket to Llano I would like to check out Cooper's Brisket. Yankees brag on it purty heavy..but a county mounty stationed up in Burnet say whilst Coopers was indeed tolerable it was the 2nd best bbq joint in Llano. He say the other place which aint got a name is mo betta. I am real cornfused. A crisp 20 to pay for the meal would also come in handy. I simply volunteering to this on behalf of the group. I mean I would hate for some far off person to make a trip all the way down there and find out it aint no good. Let me know.

bigwheel


Now I don't know where cowtown is but you're more than welcome to hitch a ride in whatever we're riding in when the yankees invade Llano at the end of this month.
Isn't the no named place the city market or sumthin like that?
I'll be staying only a few miles from there and figure it'd be an OK place to get some food until I make it to the Salt lick.

[bigwheel]

Well Cowtown just be a little West of Dallas on about whichever road you is using. Doubt I make it to Llano to join the fun. I bees a very person ya know? Hope yall have a blast. I think that City Market place is a different town..Luling maybe? I aint sure. You seen one of them bohunk towns you seem em all in my book:) Now in Llano the "other place" is on the S. end of town on the road that goes to Fredericksburg. East side of the road. Least I drove by a bbq place a bunch of times that was so located.. and it didnt say Coopers Olyde Tymie BBQ on the sign etc..so I figger that must be the place.

bigwheel

[vinman]

Well Cowtown just be a little West of Dallas on about whichever road you is using. Doubt I make it to Llano to join the fun. I bees a very person ya know? Hope yall have a blast. I think that City Market place is a different town..Luling maybe? I aint sure. You seen one of them bohunk towns you seem em all in my book:) Now in Llano the "other place" is on the S. end of town on the road that goes to Fredericksburg. East side of the road. Least I drove by a bbq place a bunch of times that was so located.. and it didnt say Coopers Olyde Tymie BBQ on the sign etc..so I figger that must be the place.

bigwheel


I knew it was someplace that started with an L.
We'll yankee up someplace I'm sure. We're also planning on removing some of your excess beer...even if it's just temporary. :lol:

[bigwheel]

Well like the old boy at the beer joint trough axe me one time...Do you know why beer makes you go winky tinky so much? (Now he did not say winky tinky..I just doing an expletive delted for the benefit of the wimmen and chillins on here:) Using off color words is a sign of a limited vocabulary ya know? Anyway of course I had to say no..then he says..Cuz it dont have to stop to change colors. hee hee hee. Now aint that a riot? Yall ever tell that one up in Ohiya?

bigwheel

[vinman]

Well like the old boy at the beer joint trough axe me one time...Do you know why beer makes you go winky tinky so much? (Now he did not say winky tinky..I just doing an expletive delted for the benefit of the wimmen and chillins on here:) Using off color words is a sign of a limited vocabulary ya know? Anyway of course I had to say no..then he says..Cuz it dont have to stop to change colors. hee hee hee. Now aint that a riot? Yall ever tell that one up in Ohiya?

bigwheel


Oh....I'll tell it now. :lol:

[jshively]

Messed up by a person trying to make a living selling bbq that has been seasoned w/a doctored-up, salty commercial Sysco rub as cheaply as possible, being massed produced, by a no-brainer, gas fired, faux smoke machine run by a young, uncaring employee who is thinkin' about gettin' off work asap, then sat and held til service then fired to crisp n glaze, would be my thought..... :wink:

:shock: :shock:

Question and I figured you would be an expert on this. Want to hire a midget for my new pit to do all the work. Now how do the elves get up there to do everything? I was thinking step stool or building him a little place to hang out in the right side of the pit so when it beeps he can run out onto the grates and do what needs to be done.

[Bad Santa]

That waiting room/holding area sounds like it would work fine on a horizonal run, now if you're talking a very big vertical box, (excess of 48 inches) will probably require rigging n' hoist, or scaffolding of some sort. Of course we be talking covered top to keep outta the inclement weather.
Steps are what I provide in main housing/work area along with plenty of stepstools handy at all times.