Quick cooking pork ribs?

[shotgun427]

We are grilling this weekend to celebrate a graduation and one of the meats that we want to do is pork ribs. The problem is that I don't have 4 hours to cook these puppies. Anybody have any suggestions on how to speed up the process? Boiling? Finishing in an oven?

 

[S197HQQKEM]

Them fools what think shredded baked pork slathered with sauce and covered with cole slaw usually boil their ribs before they grill them.

 

[EEE]

Which ribs, baby back or spares? For back ribs you can cook them ahead of time in a 300 degree oven for about 2 hrs wrapped in foil. You can brush them with liquid smoke for a little flavor, if you want. Then you can refridgerate them and heat and sauce them up on the grill. This is how places like Tony Romas do theirs.
Not really bbq, but they will taste good and get eaten.

Or if you have the time during the week you could smoke them and store in the fridge to reheat on the grill.

Boiling is for pasta.

 

[kevwun]

You can cook baby back ribs in about an hour and 15 minutes. Cook them directly over the coals. Do them meat side up until they are almost done, then mop them and turn them and let them cook for 20 or 25 more minutes.

 

[Sucklebuster]

You can do rib ahead of time, then reheat on grill. They will be "ok" , not great - but most folks think they are great as long as they are tender. A little BBQ Sauce will add a crisp bark and help them out on the grill...

 

[Sucklebuster]

On another thought - I spoke to a LONG TIME pit master at a BBQ joint known for great RIbs. He said the faster the better over direct heat from a wood fire is the way to go on ribs. They had outstanding ribs, time and time again.

Now that would require learning the "art" of BBQ cooking to do it that way. Ive never tried it, but seems like it could be done with practice.

 

[kevwun]

Before the smoking fad, cooking over direct heat was the norm. In many places, it still is. You can cook any type of meat over direct heat. You can even do briskets in 5 or 6 hours.

 

[hornian]

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[kevwun]

Fad was probably a bad choice of words, before smoking became popular would have been better. Where I grew up, smoking was just about unheard of, with the exception of using smoke to make dried sausage. Everything else was cooked over direct heat. Everyone in the area still cooks like that. I could be way off base, but I get the feeling that smoking is much more common among city dwellers. It might just seem that way to me.