Direct or Indirect Heat for My Ribs?

Unknown

Curious as to whether you favor direct or indirect heat for ribs. Seems like most here prefer direct.[p]FYI, I do not favor the "fall-off-the-bone" type of rib, if that factors into this discussion.[p]Thanks in advance for your input -- happy Memorial Day!

Martini Mark in PTC

Bulldog Bob,
I go indirect in a rib rack sitting on the grill, with just a piece of foil covering about half the exposed grilling area. Rub them down with whatever; make sure to pull the membrane off the backside of the ribs first. Slather some sauce on 15 minutes before finished & they will be perfect. Takes me about 1.5-2 hours for room temp ribs going on at around 200-220 dome temp. Don't overcook. They will be perfect at 140. Happy holiday!

Martini Mark in PTC

Martini Mark in MSP,
Don't forget some apple wood chunks or chips....that will sweeten them even more.

Smokey

Bulldog Bob,[p]The 3-1-1 method uses both. 3 hours indirect, 1 in foil and 1 direct. [p]The foil will give the fall off the bone texture. You may try skipping that and adding a little more time to both the indirect and direct parts of the cook.[p]Smokey

Lawn Ranger

<p />Bulldog Bob,
For pork ribs I like the raised grid, direct method that Woodoggies uses. 230 degrees, flipping and basting every 30 minutes for about 4 hours. It is proven very good to me. [p]These were the ones my son Ryan did last week for his first cook.

Nature Boy

<p />Bulldog Bob,
I vote for indirect, sans foil. 5-8 hours in the 225 range. Tender, one-bite-at-a-time ribs. Here is Hatch cutting up the ones I cooked up yesterday. They wuz goood. [p]As you can tell, folks have their favorite ways, and there are many routes to rib nirvana. Happy cookin!
Chris

mad max beyond eggdome

Nature Boy,
does that hatch fella ever go home??? or does he just camp out in the nature ranch garage? .. .seems to me you should have him at least doing some grinding for you to earn his keep. ..heeeeee[p]hope you is havin a good holiday at your end of I66!!!![p]its been a good eggin weekend so far. ...trex steaks (cow licked of course) and prociutto wrapped asparagus saturday. ..tsunami spun beer butt chickens and vidalia onions last night. . ..we'll see what's in store for tonight. ..[p]beers mang!!!

Nature Boy

mad max beyond eggdome,
Naw, Hatch just visits and always carries his weight believe it or not.[p]So, you see (in the picture) our new next door neighbor in that million dollar brick house goin up where the trees used to be? 6 weeks ago it was all trees over there.[p]Dang
Cocacolas toya mang. Have fun.
Chris

mad max beyond eggdome

Nature Boy,
LOL. . .i'm just impressed that someone would spend a million bucks to live next door to you!! .. heee. .. . but then, once they smell the smoke from all those eggs, i'll bet they get really friendly, really fast!!! . .. you just need to make sure to tell them to keep the booze hidden (from your other neighbor that is) ...