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Pork ribs showdown - regular vs Berkshire

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d16lee
d16lee Posts: 46
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We visited Famu Japanese butcher (http://famu.ca/) on Sat and noticed they had Berkshire pork from SRF!!!  I picked up a package and I'm going a Turbo Ribs showdown. 



It's actually not too unreasonably priced.  The cut is thicker so much more meat packed on vs. the regular baby backs beside it.  I paid maybe $5 more for the Berkshire than the other rack (organic pork from T&T).

Here it is rubbed with Oakridge Pork and Chicken rub and sit overnight in fridge


Here are they on the grill.  The 2 on the right are the Berkshires.



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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Awaiting the results!  

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • d16lee
    d16lee Posts: 46
    edited July 2015
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    The ribs turned out really good, despite lack of a deep smoke ring.  (That's turbo ribs for ya! :) )  The Berkshire has a richer flavor but both were quite good.  Here are some pics




    Regular ribs 



    The Berkshire.  The SRF cut has a bit of pork loin attached.  Very moist.


    Both wife and son are happily fed - most important part. :)


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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Man those look excellent!  

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • GATraveller
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    Nice. Thanks. 

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  • Griffin
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    Mmmm...ribs. Looks great. So would you say its worth the extra money?

    I don't think I've ever seen anybody probe ribs before.

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  • d16lee
    d16lee Posts: 46
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    Griffin said:
    Mmmm...ribs. Looks great. So would you say its worth the extra money?

    I don't think I've ever seen anybody probe ribs before.
    If you aren't tasting for it, you would not notice it.  For convenience sake, I probably wouldn't get these.  Going to the Japanese butcher, even on the same street as the other grocery store, I'm too lazy for that. :) And they came frozen so I would have to plan to cook it.) It's not the extra $5 vs. the organic pork ribs I got - these are meatier. 

    I had probes in there for the wife.  I was just going to set it up and leave the wife to pull them.  She had me draw diagram of which ribs were which, write down the temperature, etc. that I just figured I work from home. 


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