WSM Smoked Beef Ribs Recipe Video

GETTING READY
1. Start by trimming up and removing the membrane from the bone side of the ribs. Removing the membrane is the key to a flavorful outcome. With a blunt knife, start in one corner and gently lift the membrane from the bone. Once you have a good start, grab it with a paper towel to get a firm grip and pull. It may take a bit of strength but if you are careful and pull evenly and firmly, you should be able to lift it off in one piece.
2. Once cleaned and trimmed, dust with the seasoning rub. Do the tops and sides, and coat them generously. If you can, let the rub sit on the meat in the refrigerator for an hour or three or even overnight.
3. Setup your Weber Smokey Mountain and preheat to 225°F, hot enough to kill bacteria but not too high to evaporate all the moisture.

MAKING
4. Put the meat in racks or directly on, bone side down, and add the wood. Too much smoke will ruin the meal. Add no more than 2-4 ounces on a tight cooker, double that if it leaks a lot. Put the lid on.
5. You will not need to add more wood and you will not need to turn the meat over. Cook bone down all the way. Keep the lid on and resist peeking until about 3/4 of the way through the cook. The exact length of the cook depends on variables such as the composition of the meat.
6. Though, beef ribs can be cooked on a grill it won't have the kind of tenderness and flavor that it will from a smoker. Smoke whole racks, as large as your smoker will allow. Beef ribs are usually cut into racks of 4 or 5 bones, but that's still a pretty big piece of meat. Make sure that you don't block the airflow in your smoker. This might require doing some stacking, but try to give the beef ribs as much space as possible to let the smoke get to them. If you need to stack ribs onto of each other then, you will want to re-stack them during the smoking process to get the smoke flavor to all the ribs.
7. These ribs should be smoked at around 225 to 250 degrees F. I find that they will be tender and tasty after 6 to 7 hours on the smoker. But remember the longer you go with a lower temperature, the more smoke flavor you will get and the more tender the ribs will be.
8. Mop the ribs with a mixture of barbecue sauce and olive oil during the last hour of smoking.
9. Wrap them in foil and rest well.

SERVING
10. Cut them into individual ribs and serve on very large plates with plenty of napkins.

The recipe directions are sourced from AmazingRibs.com.