Saucy Country Style Ribs – We take the low cost country style ribs, the pork shoulder type (yes there are two different pork cuts called country ribs), season and smoke on a kamado style grill. Then we slather the ribs in sauce and finish smoking until they are probe tender.

With as expensive as meat has become lately, it’s good to have some low cost meat options. That’s what we get with these saucy country style ribs.

This is a fairly quick cook compared to pork shoulder and most spare rib recipes.

If you are looking for traditional rib recipes, we can help:

• Simple Wet Brined Ribs
• Hot Honey Spare Ribs
• Peachy Sweet Spare Ribs

Saucy Country Style Ribs Ingredients:

• Country Style Ribs
• Salt
• Your favorite BBQ Rub
• Your favorite BBQ Sauce

There is not much to this recipe, except for the cooking time. Not even really any weights and measures because this is more of a guideline than anything.

These are the country ribs made from pork shoulder which is full of fat and collagen. The pork shoulder country ribs need to cook to north of 180F to render that fat and collagen. Actually, 200F is a better target.

Thus, these need to be cooked a lot longer than the more traditional country style ribs. Furthermore, here’s one of my favorite traditional country style ribs recipes.

Season the Country Style Ribs

Begin by seasoning with salt and your favorite BBQ seasoning:

Prepare the grill for the Saucy Country Style Ribs:

We are shooting for indirect grilling here. On a standard charcoal grill, place the coals to one side and the meat on the other. While in this kamado style grill from Everdure, we put the plate setter between the meat and the fire to deflect the heat around the meat.

Target temp inside the grill is 275F (+/- 25F)

Smoke Wood

For pork, lighter fruit woods are fantastic as well as the traditional hickory or two of my favorites, pecan and oak. Hickory can be overpowering for some. A combo of hickory and a fruit wood like apple, pear, cherry or peach softens the harsher hickory.

For this cook, we used a couple chunks of oak.

We have a very long list of smoke woods and what proteins they pair well with.

After about an hour, our country ribs are coloring up nicely:

To Foil or not to Foil

Once the country style ribs hit 150F-170F, which is when the temps stall, you can drizzle with sauce and wrap them in foil. This will speed up the process but will not produce bark as good as no foil. This is totally personal preference.

Although we did not foil these ribs.

We went for better bark.

Stay tuned for better bark.

Time to Sauce the Country Style Ribs

Once the ribs hit the stall, fill a sauce pan with BBQ sauce and dunk each rib which is the quickest way to completely coat them:

Then, place the saucy ribs back on the grill and keep smoking:

Feel free to dunk the ribs in sauce a couple more times before they get to that preferred internal temp of 200F-205F..

These saucy country ribs were dunked twice more before they hit 200F-ish:

Finally, remove the saucy ribs from the grill and plate.

Check out that glorious bark:

Additionally, I served these with a little added Alabama white sauce and some wavy chips:

Saucy Country Style Ribs Recap:

These low cost country style ribs are a great and quick way to get your BBQ fix for not a lot of money. These take a fraction of the time of a pork shoulder and less time than most spare rib recipes. Smoky, savory, saucy and succulent. Heaven, indeed!

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Saucy Country Style Ribs

Saucy country style ribs, seasoned and smoked on a kamado style grill, then sauced and smoked even more to infuse that sauce and get the pork probe tender

Course BBQ, Country Style Ribs, Entree, Ribs

Cuisine American, American Fare, Barbecue, BBQ, Country Style Ribs, Ribs

Keyword Bark, Collagen, Country Ribs, Country Style Ribs, Everdure, Everdure 4K, Indirect Grilling, Kamado, Kamado Grill, Low Cost, Saucy, Saucy Country Style Ribs, Saucy Ribs, Smoke Wood, Stall, The Stall

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 2 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Servings 6 People

Ingredients

• Country Style Ribs
• Salt
• Your favorite BBQ seasoning
• Your favorite BBQ Sauce

Instructions

• Season the country ribs with salt and the BBQ seasoning
• Prepare the grill for indirect grilling with a target temperature inside the grill of 275F (+/-25F).
• Toss a chunk of smoke wood on the coals and the ribs over the indirect heat and close the lid
• Once the country ribs hit 150F-170F (after about 90 minutes) pour a bottle of sauce into a small pot and dunk each country style ribs in the pot completely submerging each one and put the ribs back on the grill and close the lid.
• Dunk the ribs every 20-30 minutes until the country ribs hit 180F at a bare minimum but closer to 200F is recommended
• Remove from the grill, serve and enjoy

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Scott Thomas

Scott Thomas, the Original Grillin’ Fool, was sent off to college with a suitcase and a grill where he overcooked, undercooked and burned every piece of meat he could find. After thousands of failures, and quite a few successes, nearly two decades later he started a website to show step by step, picture by picture, foolproof instructions on how to make great things out of doors so that others don’t have to repeat the mistakes he’s made on the grill.

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