[be-baw]

Sounds awesome but a lot of work. For many years, I cooked my ribs in a crockpot, which always was adequate. Lately, I’ve been slow-roasting them in the oven. To season I use Emeril Lagasse’s spice mix and a bottle of KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce.

Clearly, I’m not the aficionado you are.I’m just happy to find them at less than $2/lb

[NautiNurse]

We've been using the slow-oven moist roast for a couple of years now. Meat falls off the bone. When given the choice, the vote is oven over grill every time now.

Preheat oven to 250ºF. Line a large roasting pan with a big sheet of aluminum foil, over the edges. Place prepared rack(s) of ribs on metal rack in lined roasting pan. Add water to cover bottom of foil lined pan below rack, taking care to not submerge any portion of the ribs. Cover tightly with another sheet of foil. Do not disturb for five hours.

For the health conscious--of prepared BBQ sauces, Bone Suckin' Sauce, Stubbs, and at least some of the Kraft sauces do not contain high fructose corn syrup. OTOH, Sweet Baby Ray's first ingredient is high fructose corn syrup.

[NutsOnYew]

We make our own dry rubs: Montreal, Cajun, Blackening, Jerk, etc. Easy to find basic recipes on the net, then modify them to your taste. We like things a bit spicy, so we routinely ramp up the amount of cayenne and/or crushed red peppers and/or Hungarian paprika, but that's just preference.

NOTE: If you ever make a rub, make a bunch of it and bottle/label the remainder so you will not have to make it again next time.

Regarding BBQ sauce, cannot do much better than Sweet Baby Ray's. Just saying.

[miss marmelstein]

I swear the crockpot should be called a ‘deflavorizer.’ I finally put mine out on the curb hoping someone would take it away. Back to using my Creuset and oven! My homemade baked beans are in it as I write.

[Political Junkie Too]

For years, I used a crock pot to slow-cook ribs, too, when I was living in a condo. I'd baste them with liquid smoke for the flavor.

Now that I'm in a house with a back yard, I bought a Traeger smoker/grill. I bought some pork baby back ribs the other day that I'm cooking as we write.

Here is a link I posted in 2010 to a crock-pot recipe for slow-cooking an inexpensive cut of eye round of roast beef.

-PJ