Bought a 5 pound dino ribs, cooked it using vertical smoker over applewood 275-280F for 5 hours till 175F, wrapped in foil with butter and spritzed with beef broth + honey at 160F. Pulled out at 205F it was probe tender. Total cooktime was 6 hours. Let it rest for an hour and its chewy. What went wrong? Rub was just a mix of salt pepper paprika garlic onion powder.
When i probed it, slides like butter, after resting it became hard and chewy, what went wrong, over cooking? Pulled too soon?
by IndependentEnd6581
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You didn’t make enough for all of us.
You didn’t opt in for the undercoating package
This is look’s very nice
Have you calibrated your probe? Sounds like right process.
May have been lean steer?
My personal opinion meats always nice.
How did you rest it?
Cook them longer?
I think it’s the meat, lack of proper aging could cause this or just an old milk cow.
Might have been the ribs themselves. Sometimes beef or pork is dry and tough. It’s just the animal itself.
It’s disappointing but will work nice in chili.
It is a strange combination of looking overcooked but not fall off the bone rendered. I think you might have over-trimmed it or maybe it was a super lean cow. Interesting video on trimming beef ribs I happened on this week coincidently.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlieiTGsECk&t=1156s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlieiTGsECk&t=1156s)
While opinions are varried on this, I would have gone lower. Not sure if it would have made a difference, but I like to cook my dinos around 235-250.
If it’s too chewy could always make a proper chili out of it!
It’s hard to tell from the picture, but if I had to guess based on the bark and the time (lower than I normally go for), maybe it didn’t cook long enough for the collagen to break down into gelatin? At the same time, I don’t see a ton of fat on there, so I’m a little hesitant to say that’s what it is.
Pull at 195-200 and let it rest wrapped in butcher paper for at least 30 minutes.
Also, do you have a little pale of water the cooking area for moisture?
If you live in a drier climate, that’s a must.