Grill Maestro

It’s the holiday season and aspiring grill maestros like myself might be thinking about giving the gift of food. Who wouldn’t love a delicious side of hickory smoked baby back pork ribs hugged in a delicious barbecue sauce just waiting for you under a tree? Well, just partially smoke those ribs (essentially do the 3-2 [...]

My wife gave me a copy of The Great Ribs Book by Hugh Carpenter & Teri Sandison as a holiday gift and it’s a fun little book for the ribs aficionado, which I am. Overall, it’s heavy on recipes and light on actual rib preparation and cooking techniques, though that is typically the style when [...]

Have you ever heard of the 3-2-1 Ribs cooking/grilling/preparation method? If you’ve ever enjoyed ribs where the meat fell right off the bone, you’ve likely seen the product of the 3-2-1 rib method of cooking. The numbers refer to the number of hours spent in each step of the process and it’s a pretty reliable [...]

I love beef ribs. I love pork ribs. And in my years of making ribs, I always made the big ribs… never the baby back ribs. Sometimes I boiled them, basted them in sauce, and then threw them in the oven or put them on the grill. They were usually good but not great. Actually, [...]