Post your gas grill rib recipe/cooking methods!

[motorvated]

Hey all! Just got my new grill, and im looking to make some ribs on it. I've never done them on a gas grill, but I've cooked them in the oven. Tomorrow I have a good deal of yardwork to do, so i'de like to slow cook (BBQ) some ribs on my new gas grill. How do you guys/girls do it? My grill has 4 different burners all with there own climate control. I've heard indirect heat is best to slow cook the ribs. Like using the left two burners, but having the ribs on the right side of the grill. Anyway, im looking for your methods to turn out some amazing ribs! Lets have it.

[russiankid]

Get some chicken wings, and put this one them.


Then cook on the grill till they're a gold brown color. I usually get the right color on the grill, then put them on the top rack and turn off two burners and leave two on low. Then I close the lid, and that allows them to get nice and tender with low heat. The fat drips off of them onto the burners, which creates a nice scent that goes through them too.

[TGilb2007]

He asked about ribs dude.


And honestly, I have never done ribs on a grille yet, and mine here is charcoal. I cannot wait to be able to use my grille all the time too, gonna be SWEET!!!!!

::wipes drool from mouth::

[ho1ywars]

boil the ribs for 3 hours, it gets the meat really tender. put a bit of viniger in the water.. helps them hold the mioster.

maranade the ribs in BBQ sauce overnight. completely cover them.

slap them on the grill tomarrow and bake the BBQ sauce onto them. flip, apply more sauce, flip, apply more sauce and so on.

[jjm4life]

there is a difference between grilling ribs, and true barbeque. are you doing beef or pork ribs?
unfortunately with a grille you are not going to get that deep smoke flavor of a true bbq rib. if you ever look at ome closely, they get a nice pink "rim" around the meat from the smoke. thats the sign of good bbq.
you can boil them as mentioned, but thats sort of cheating.
the key to bbq is "low and slow". aim to keep your grille in the 250* range and plan on hours. youre only going to need maybe two of the burners on low. if you have a meat thermometer (thts what she said) use it. a bone temp above 150 is safe.keep them on the top rack and put tinfoil below to catch the drippings. they will cook and add to the flavor. you can even pour it back onto the ribs occasionally to help keep them really moist. you can also tent them in tinfoil if youd like too. again, helps keep them moist.
regardless on if you like your ribs wet or dry, i would only apply a sauce towards the end. as for prep, dry rub of your choice. no need for a we marinade.
for what its worth, the style we went with, we would finished the ribs directly on the grill, and sauce them there, gives the sauce a little time to caramelize the sugars in the sauce.
a good basic rub. brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder, onion poweder, brown and white pepper, touch of salt (paprika has a lot of salt to it) cayanne if you like heat.

o, and ps i used to run a very successful bbq catering company.

[lordoc22]

Like they all said grilling ribs really isn't going to cook it right, for that you would need a wood burning barbecue pit that would take at least 5 hours to cook..... start of with a dry rub consisting of your favorite seasonings.. go with a teaspoon of each seasoning per pound...id say bare minimum a teaspoon of salt and ground black pepper per pound....then don't boil it but put it on a cookie sheet with some water in the bottom...like enough to cover the bottom off the sheet. Place the dry rubbed ribs on the cookie sheet and cover with foil. Place them in the oven for 3 hours on 325f....when they're done heat up your grill on medium heat slather bbq sauce on the ribs and toss them on the grill until all the bbq soaks in and gets crispy.....take off your ribs slice em up and serve with some potato salad or cole slaw

[jjm4life]

^^ that is some good info. i prefer to avoid baking altogether but you're right about keeping them moist with the foil and cookie sheet.

[RedDawg]

let them soak in some BBQ sauce overnight

[sleepersatty99]

the best way that i do it even in the cafe is to slow cook the ribs on 200 to 250 for about 6 hours but make sure you first put on a dry rub of brown sugar, garlic powder, salt, pepper a little chili powder for that little spice. and then cook in the oven. after 6/8 hours of cooking, slap on some of your fav BBQ sauce and finish them off on the grill to get that nice char ans smokey flavor.