How do you make your beef ribs?

@dragon54u (31633)
United States
August 28, 2009 2:18pm CST
I found some beef ribs on sale, marked WAY down! Trouble is, I've never made them before. How do you cook them? I have my dad's barbeque sauce recipe, I just have to know how to cook them. Do you boil them? For how long? Then you bake them, right? Help me out here, all you good cooks! I have a real craving for these ribs!
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@Sissygrl (10909)
• Canada
29 Aug 09
hi Dragon, I almost always put my ribs in the crock pot with some good old honey garlic sauce. I loooooooooooove them that way. pork or beef ribs doesn't matter. when you do them in the crock pot, they are so juicy and just seem to FALL right off the bone. mmm See now i went grocery shopping today, but didn't buy any ribs.. They where on sale here last week. two of those short rib racks for 10$. they where pork though. This week was sirloin steak.. I got me some of those juicy bad boys! well i'm hungry now!
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@Sissygrl (10909)
• Canada
29 Aug 09
mm crock pot. lol I am always scared to buy the "old" meat.. it always looks a little.. on its way out.. wonder why grocery stores dont freeze them themselves before the date on the package and sell them at a lower cost that way..
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I'm trying the crock pot today! I don't just get them on sale, I get them marked down in the "must sell" section of the meat. That means they'll be good for a few days or I can freeze them for later. Even when they're on sale they're expensive so when I find some "old" ones marked down, I grab 'em!
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• United States
28 Aug 09
I actually do a all day long cook on mine. I pop them in the oven at 200 degrees turning and basting them with my sauce for about 6-7 hours or until the meat starts to fall off bone, oh so good. But if you do not have the time par boil the ribs (put them in cold water and bring them up to a boil) and then through them in the oven or on the grill but in this fashion the meat will be a fair bit chewier.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
28 Aug 09
Thank you! I want them today, but I picked up another package for another day. I used to have a recipe for a whole chicken that called for cooking 10 hours at 200 degrees after rubbing with salt and paprika. Oh, it was delicious!! Talk about meat falling off the bone, it was the best chicken I ever had!
• United States
31 Aug 09
There is just something about slow cooking that cannot be found in the faster methods.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
28 Aug 09
I don't know that I have ever had beef ribs before. I always have pork ribs. I know some people boil them first. I don't simply because I do not have a pot big enough to boil them. I normally just bake them at a really low temp all day and baste once in awhile.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
28 Aug 09
I always had pork ribs, too, until one evening I went out to dinner and they had no pork ribs, only beef. So I ordered those and they were the most tender, juicy ribs I'd ever had! I like them both but beef is more melt-in-your-mouth. I'm impatient tonight so I've already boiled this batch and they've been in the oven for an hour or so. I hope they're ready in another 70-90 minutes!
• United States
29 Aug 09
Awsome find @ the grocery store! We almost NEVER find a deal on ribs around here, especially BEEF! Pork sometimes, but never beef. My hubby makes them on the grill and then the last hour he puts the bbq sauce on it and volia! I have never made them myself unless it's like country pork spare ribs, wich are a lil different than what you have.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I was really, really pleased at finding these!! Yesterday I boiled them then baked them as advised. Today I found a crock pot recipe and I'm trying out a new sauce that I tasted in the grocery store months ago--a jar of Heinz Chili Sauce combined with a can of cranberry sauce. It was delicious!! Almost as good as my dad's recipe using ketchup, mustard and brown sugar and Lea & Perrin's, I just want something different today but still crave those ribs!