Braised Baby Back Ribs

Total Time: 27 hrs Preparation Time: 24 hrs Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 rack baby back rib rack
• sweet barbecue sauce
• olive oil
• vegetable oil
• hickory chips
• water, to use at the grill
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon onion powder

Recipe

• 1 combine rub* ingredients in a plastic bag, shake to mix.
• 2 rub olive oil on ribs then generously cover both sides of ribs with rub, there's enough to do 2 racks.
• 3 wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hrs or as long as 24 hours.
• 4 for covered charcoal grill: start coals 30-45 minutes prior to cooking, soak a couple hand fulls of hickory chips in water.
• 5 meanwhile, place each rack of ribs, curved side down on two layers of heavy duty aluminum foil, which have been wiped with a thin coat of vegetable oil use a piece of foil large enough to seal over the top.
• 6 form a pan with the foil.
• 7 after coals turn white push them all to one side, drain wood chips, place soaked wood chips on hot coals, replace grill top.
• 8 soak some more chips.
• 9 place ribs and foil on cool side of grill, carefully pour water to the foil 'pans' to no more than 1/2" up the sides of the ribs.
• 10 replace lid on grill.
• 11 every 30 minutes add a few coals and some of the soaked chips and reverse the position of the ribs (rotate and reverse).
• 12 turn over about 1/2 way through the cooking process so they finish curved side up.
• 13 depending on your grill it could take as long as 4 hrs or as little as 1 hr to cook.
• 14 to finish ribs, remove from heat, drain liquid from foil pan (reserve for sauce if desired) carefully cut racks into serving sized chunks (3-4 ribs), brush with sauce and return to hot side of grill for a few minutes to brown a bit.
• 15 you can brown them under the broiler right in the foil pans if coals are not hot enough.
• 16 this procedure can be replicated on a two (or more) zoned gas grill.
• 17 put the chips in another foil 'pan' and place them over the heat, when they start to smoke put the ribs over the cool side and cover.
• 18 replenish chips as necessary, rotate and reverse rib pans about every 30 minutes.
• 19 *this is a sweet rub and may be a bit too sweet for some tastes, if so decrease sugar.