RIBS lol The Ribs were on sale. So I cooked some and freezing the rest until Puppy Bowl Sunday along with my wings. I do not fry my wings but oven bake them on a rack’ spray some oil on them and bake at 400 for 1 hour and a half until crispy. Meanwhile, prepare mix on side - 1 Tbsp of Worshire Sauce, 2 Cups of Tabasco; 2 Tbsp of Butter - heat and melt them together. When wings are ready, dip in sauce and let it sit for a minute then remove and place in dish. I am considering getting an Air Fryer.
Someone was nagging me to get an air fryer and not to use my deep fryer. But I wanted a deep fryer for years and the skinny boys 2 men here love that stuff. I know it would be healthier...
How do you do your ribs? I have a cheating ribs recipe. Mind you, we only cook beef ribs here but still. Ribs are still ribs.
My cheat cheat for them is to buy as many as fit in a pile in my slow cooker. Add some commercial BBQ sauce (I like Stubbs for this) and cook on high for about 4 hours. Not much longer. You do not want the meat falling off the bone. You want to lightly chew it off! Then arrange on baking or broiler pans and put them High under the baking thing or under a broiler in an oven - for only a few minutes until they char ever so slightly. Add more sauce.
Are they as spectacular as properly smoked ribs? Heck no. Will they do? Oh yes.
But I found a rib place not far from here and brought a mess of them home recently in a rainstorm (yay rain), and they were almost too good to make them myself ever. They didn’t even need BBQ sauce. They were perfect. And yet the place made the worst cole slaw we all ever tasted. It was mushy with zero bite, zero acidity. They should have been knighted for the ribs but shot in the kneecaps for that cole slaw. Oh well.