Spare Ribs Help

Tom

A buddy of mine wants me to cook him some ribs. I mostly have cooked baby backs on my egg. He brought over some spares. I plan on fixing them the same way I do baby backs but my experience in the past has been they dont quiet come out as tender. Any suggestions for preperation and cooking?[p]
Tom

Nature Boy

Tom,
Spares come out nice and tender. They just need more time. The best spares I cooked were 6 hours at 250 dome over a dry drip pan. Figure a minimum of 4.5. When it feels like they want to pull apart, it is time to chow.[p]Just coat them with a good rub a few hours before cooking, and slather them with mustard if you feel the urge.[p]Get your fire burning clean first, throw in a chunk or two of wood, let the smoke thin a bit, and let em rip. Don't open for at least 2 or 3 hours, then move or rotate depending on how they are looking...if they are getting darker on one end than the other, then rotate em. The less you mess with them the better.[p]During the last hour, spritz with some juice every 20 minutes or so, or brush with sauce...unless you like them dry (which I am doing more and more).[p]Have fun, and let us know how they came out!
Beers
NB

Tom

Nature Boy,
With baby backs I usually put em in foil for about an hour during the cook. Should I skip that part?[p]Tom

Nature Boy

Tom,
Well, not sure what to tell you here! [p]If you are accustomed to the foil, and comfortable with the method...go for it. The only times that I have tried the foil method HAVE been on big spares. And they came out fine. I don't like to go more that 45 minutes in the foil though.[p]But if you have not tried them without the foil, I would try a good long patient cook without mucking with stuff too much. If not this time, maybe next time![p]Have a blast!
Chris

char buddy

Tom,[p]got on google and do an advanced with the following key words[p]"St.Louis Style Ribs, homemade Rumrunner" [p]then hit the cachedkey. Really nice pictoral on how to cut up and cook spares as though they were baby backs.[p]The message is at this web site
"www.hwforums.com/2016/messages/495.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages"[p]hope this helps. If it doesn't, check with Tim M and see if you can retrieve those messages for you.