During the Summer, we probably grill at least 3 times a week and my husband just loves to smoke and grill ribs. I thought it would be fun to show you via video, how my husband cooks the baby back ribs and the rub he used that has supposedly won all kinds of ribbons.
While we have a freezer full of beef (part of a cowboy’s wages), including beef ribs, we decided to buy some pork baby back ribs. We always buy all our grilling goods at walmart, including ribs, boudins, brats, and even sweet breads. The only thing we usually can’t find at our walmart, is crosscut ribs. My husband loves the 2″ crosscut ribs!!
The rub comes from a friend of ours, Ricky. He said it has won ribbons in all sorts of cook-offs. We’re putting it to the test today! Like any dry rub or marinade, you can pretty much add what you want to make it your own. And there’s always a debate on dry vs wet but because of the famous Falcon mustaches, we usually go with dry to avoid extra mess.
Now watch my cowboy prepare and grill these baby back ribs.
- 2 tablespoons Paprika
- 2 tablespoons Celery Salt
- 2 tablespoons Dry Mustard
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon Cayenne
- 1 tablespoon Chili Powder
- 1-2 slabs baby back ribs
- 1 bottle bbq sauce
- melted butter, (optional)
- Combine the first 8 ingredients in a mason jar to create your rib rub.
- Generously cake on the rib rub onto the baby back ribs and smoke for about 45 minutes.
- Take ribs off grill and wrap in Reynolds Grilling Aluminum Foil.
- Place back onto grill for about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Unwrap and bathe in bbq sauce and melted butter. To make it easier, you could prepare the bbq sauce and melted butter together ahead of time. Cook another 15 minutes and it's done.
Love the video!! We grill year around almost every weekend. It never gets old! Going to try the rub out, thanks!!
I’m so glad you liked the video Maria! I’ve never put him in one or two and I never know if my readers care to see or not..but I thought it would be fun. And the rub was great. If we were to change anything, we’d add more rub to each side. BE VERY GENEROUS!
Lori what a trooper he was to let you film the video. . Tell your cowboy he did good. I know he probably did not like being filmed, but he handled it with great style and he’s so laid back!
That was a good video! Funny when you messed with him, onery woman! :)
Your recipe looks great1 Can’t wait to try it.
I made these for the 4th of July and they came out AMAZING!! I was very generous with the rub and applied it the day before so it would have time to really soak in. Thank you for posting the video it made it so easy to understand! This recipe is a keeper! Everyone loved them!!!
What happened to the recipe?? The video was cute but I need the rub recipe
Traci, I’m so sorry. There were some formatting issues when we moved my blog to a new host. It should be fixed now!