My neighbor says they boil their ribs first!



by Live_Bird704

35 Comments

  1. Peripatetictyl

    Start firing guns at 3am, reviving engines, get 20 roosters… but make sure they aren’t your neighbors for long, boiling ribs…

  2. My aunt from Baltimore did this and they always came out very “rubbery”. They weren’t terrible, just not that great.

  3. PennStateFan221

    Imagine all the kids who don’t like certain foods bc their parents never learned how to cook it properly 🥲

  4. archaic_ent

    I’ve got an indoor hibachi in winter I’ll sometime pressure cook a pile of marinated ribs then hibachi the hell out of them. They come out beautiful.

    (I butcher them into singles or double before the marinade)

  5. PlasticGuitar1320

    It’s common practice in restaurants with fatty pork ribs,they get boiled in a stock pot with onion, bay, salt and water.. then put on the grill and basted…

  6. Im pretty sure one the weber cookbook I got with my first kettle grill suggested doing this.

  7. Depressed-Industry

    I’ll take my ribs with a side of flavor thank you.

  8. Lol, that’s the trick… A well known local rib joint gave me the lowdown…. They boil their ribs in cola first on a low boil… Then baste them and leave them marinated for a day before slow cooking….. Amazing and they don’t need to slow cook for 6 hours, more like 3!!…

  9. ThePracticalEnd

    From [Meathead’s Last Meal Ribs](https://amazingribs.com/best-barbecue-ribs-recipe/)

    “If you boil ribs the terrorists win

    A lot of folks boil their ribs before grilling them and slathering on the sauce. The concept comes from Eastern Europe where Poles and Czechs prepare ribs by simmering them in water with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and caraway seed, making a very nice pork stew.

    But water is a solvent. It pulls much of the flavor out of the meat, and it can make the meat mushy. When you boil meat and bones, you make a rich flavorful soup. All that color in the pot is flavor that you can never get back into the meat. Boil meat too much and water can even dry it out by causing the proteins to contract and squeeze the moisture out of the muscle fibers.”

  10. ImaRaginCajun

    I remember doing that exactly one time. Was not impressed at all. Ever since then, low and slow is the way to go.

  11. Daliban4lyfeDAWG

    “Hey, I’m making dinner tonight! Can you take these ribs and just suck any possible flavor out of them and replace it with water? I like em “juicy”‘

  12. Racine262

    There is a restaurant here in Racine, WI that, rumor has it, boils ribs before finishing over charcoal. They are delicious. Might be the only place that can pull it off. They aren’t competition smoked ribs, they are sit down and eat a rack and a half ribs.

    The place is called Oh Dennis.

  13. Unwariest_monkey

    I stand by it that basting a turkey is to speed up cooking not to add moisture. I remember my mom basting the fucking thing 20 times over the course of the day. “Adding flavor” no, literally drying it out more.

  14. bridge1999

    Did they boil the ribs in a crawfish boil seasoning?

  15. Reinstateswordduels

    Before I had a yard and a grill I tried a Filipino recipe for boiled ribs that was absolutely fucking incredible

  16. Bbqandjams75

    I worked at a restaurant that steamed their ribs and made a fortune from it. Folks been boiling ribs way before we was born in the south

  17. Sometimes I do and they don’t come out rubbery. My dad would to and it was the same. Just depends on time and how much effort I willing to put forth

  18. Might be sous vide. I joke about boiling my steaks when serving to guests, but it’s just sous vide.

  19. Live_Bird704

    Nah just curious. I live knowing what other people are thinking.

  20. samson_mask

    I did this yesterday because I had to prep 6 slabs for a cookout and the ribs didn’t even make it to the serving table from the grill people liked them so much. They taste just as good as when I slow cook them.

  21. Lil_Shanties

    Jesus it’s like when my MIL was worried because I didn’t boil the ceviche

  22. I had an ex that did that, is there any wonder why she’s an ex?

  23. SnooHesitations8403

    Yeah, there used to be a local guy selling BBQ. He roasted his brisket in a gas oven, then threw it on the smoker, just long enough to get some stank on it. I asked him once, what kind of BBQ he did, Memphis, Kansas, Texas, etc. He said, “I don’t know, it’s barbecue.” And he charged through the nose for it, like he’d been tending a stick-burner all night long; like $60/pound.

  24. Brandimperiordh12

    My mom said I was supposed to do this… really glad I said no

  25. Brewingdan

    I grew up on boiled, kinda nostalgic. Living in Europe, most times they are braised, then grilled.

  26. parker_db15

    That’s a very old school way of cooking ribs unlike the 10/12hr smokers out there you’d have to start cooking a few days before a holiday. But to each their own

  27. oregon_assassin

    It works. My wife’s grandpa boil’s them in hurricane and finishes them on the grill with bbq sauce

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