CB. . .next time you are heading to la capital buzz me and I will smoke ya some ribs. I have a bradley smoker, bring in rub from san antonio texas and get good BBQ sauce at omaha courmet. Used Tubbs last time. A bit of a hot kick to it. I dug it.
I buy ribs from nacional. Coat heavily with rub from Rudys BBQ in texas. Fire up Bradley to 220-250 and get the smoke going with apple, cherry or borubon wood pucks. Mix them sometimes.
3 hours in the smoke. Rotating the trays sometimes to cook a bit more evenly. Then take them out and put in foil with a bit of apple juice underneath the ribs. Supposed to put back in for 2 hours no smoke but I do 1:45 so they still have some pull and don't totally fall of the bone. 2 hours and you get them falling off.
After 1:45 I take out of foil and raise temp to 250-270. . .once the dry a bit from the "steaming" in the foil, I brush on some sauce. Last time tubbs but have had luck with generic kraft BBQ sauce with some rub from Blacks BBQ in Lockhart texas mixed in to give it a bit of a kick.
You get a real smoked flavor, the flavor of the dry rub, and then the sauce. They are tender as all hell. It does take 6 hours but most of which are unattended hours so I can drink beer, play guitar, watch TV etc.
My 4 rack Bradley does 4 racks one rack cut in half on each rack.
Yesterday I made a 4 pound ribeye. Rudys rub on top, montreal grill seasoning on bottom, 2.5 hours at 220-250 in mesquite smoke. Damn. . . .yummy. Sometimes I then slice and blacken them. Yesterday they looked so good, I didn't bother with blackening.
For xmas I cooked a 10 lb ribeye. Bought 17 lbs but only smoked 10 for navida and froze 7. It was like 10,000 pesos for 17 lb rib eye. Yesterday was 2600 pesos for over 4 lbs.
I wish the sold prime rib down here but angus ribe eye works. Actually chef pepper does prime rib eyes but already sliced, maybe I can cut a deal and get a bug hunk before they do the slicing.