How to Smoke Ribs on a Charcoal Grill (EASY!)

what's going on everybody today I'm gonna show you how to smoke a rack of ribs on a charcoal grill now I also like to smoke meat a lot of the time in these Brinkmann smokers Brinkman Brinkman but I want to show you guys how to do it on a charcoal grill because chances are you have one laying around and it's actually not that hard so let's talk about setting the grill up first there's three main components when it comes to setting to grow up the first is your water pan you're gonna obviously need a pan that can withstand a good bit of heat and the water in this pan is gonna be responsible for keeping that meat moist and also infusing that meat with the smoked flavor kind of like air braises if you will next is your charcoal so what you want to actually do is arrange the charcoal around the outside of the water pan in a ring and you want to make sure that this that this ring isn't continuous the whole way around or else it's gonna burn in two directions so what you want is your ring to burn in one direction like the band this is the best way to make sure that your grill never gets too hot and it'll burn for a long time third is your wood chips I like to use Applewood on most things especially pork you want to soak your wood chips in water beforehand and then you want to sprinkle them throughout your charcoal ring this is gonna give you that smoke throughout the cook as far as prepping the ribs what you're gonna do is remove the membrane from the inner side of them I prefer spareribs over baby back ribs because they have a lot more meat on them and they're cheaper so when I take the membrane off the ribs I like to find the farthest visible bone which is right here then I'm gonna take my knife and with the tip I'm just gonna slice it no I'm gonna take a paper towel and grab it and just rip it off the whole way down you might have to make a few run throughs but in general that's a pretty good way to do it some people also take off this flap of meat right here I don't I don't see the problem with it we're gonna cook it with it on I've actually cooked a lot of ribs with the membrane on it's not a huge deal if you can't do it next we're gonna want to rub these ribs down one thing I want you guys to understand is you can't screw the spice rub up as long as you put salt pepper and some other stuff on it that you like it's gonna turn out fine it's all about the cooking in general for me the components of a good rub are some type of red pepper like paprika or cayenne or smoked paprika garlic or onion some type of herb salt pepper and one type of sweetener brown sugar sugar or I even use stevia sometimes the sweetener is actually really really key for smoked meats so give your ribs a rubdown with whatever you want today I'm just gonna be using some weber burger seasoning because it has a lot of these different things in it and it turns out just fine I like to rub my ribs down with the rub wrap them in saran wrap and store them in the fridge overnight that's gonna help those spices kind of really get in there when it comes to placing the ribs on the grill you want to make sure the ribs are never directly above the hot coals this is gonna make sure that the underside of your ribs never get burned if you're still scared about this put some foil under it call it a day I used to only smoke meat on the grill when I had a thermometer telling me what temperature the grill was but I found that the charcoal smoke ring really can't burn much hotter than 250 degrees you want to try to avoid unnecessarily opening the lid during the cook because you want to keep that heat in there but you do want to periodically check that there's enough water in your pan and that the coals are never underneath your ribs if you see the coals burning under your ribs rotate it ideal cooking time for me is about five hours you can go more but I wouldn't go less I've smoked ribs for four hours kind of in a pinch before and they come out a little bit chewier and the meat doesn't pull off the bone is cleanly key temperature you want to keep that grill between 200 and 250 ideally the charcoal smoke ring really allows you to do that pretty easily it's not going to burn hot so there you go guys a really really easy way to get good barbecue right in your backyard try it let me know how it goes [Music]

Channel: Dishes and Fishes

Views: 240,001

Keywords: 6-5-20, smokedribs, bbqribs, bbqspareribs, babybackribs, homebbq, pitmaster, homemaderibs, charcoalgrill, webergrill, traegergrills, smoked ribs recipe, bbq ribs, ribs

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Length: 4min 46sec (286 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 10 2020