First time trying to cook beef ribs. Seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, cooked at 225F until 205F and spritzing with water every 1 hour. Why did it scrunch up like this? Did I skip a step on the prep side of things?
by PeriliousKnight
35 Comments
TechnicalDecision160
LOL
bigrichoX
They always do that. Depends sometimes on the trim. They look good, were they good?
avalanchefan91
Dawg it looks good. That’s what it does.
CulturalChemistry45
Completely normal dude
CoatStraight8786
That’s what they do.
kebmpb
Looks like crap. Send to me for disposal 👍🏻
oldskool47
First timer?
santanzchild
Thats what beef on a bone does…
Spartan349
Looks fine,if you were wanting to maintain bones attached to the meat, I would take it off at around 195. But if you want juicy and tender 205 is great.
freewheelinfrank
Eat it and circle back to tell us how great they were.
ItsTheTed
Not an expert, but I think that might be natural. My briskets shrink during cooking – I assume as the muscles contract. How did it taste? If it was banging I really wouldn’t care what it looked like.
Spitfire36
Scrunch up? That’s normal for meat to “retract” and show the bone.
Fantasy-account-12
How does it taste? That’s what matters.
Monkey-Gland-Sauce
Looks damn good to me!
Dry-Nefariousness400
Homie you’re good. This is what they do. Now you have built in hand grips to gnaw’em
Relevant_Winter1952
This is exactly what is supposed to happen when you smoke them
Aloha-Bear-Guy
They look beautiful honestly but the true test (texture and taste) only you can judge.
Lemissa1
They look amazing!! Im new to all this but mine always look like that, just natural contracting I think.
spanky088
Those look perfect as long as their tender prepare to have your mind blown. Dino ribs are amazing.
Molotor
u/PeriliousKnight this is normal, surprising the first time, but its hella good!
jrdnmdhl
Guy doesn’t know about shrinkage?
hashtagprayfordonuts
Eat the damn ribs boy!
smotrs
That scrunching up is totally normal for Dino Ribs. How’d they taste, texture, feel?
StagedC0mbustion
Looks fire
AgentJR3
You’ve done nothing wrong. That’s exactly what I want to see when cooking them. Means you’ve rendered the fat and will have some crazy tender meat
Crumb_Bum_Creep
This is near to perfection
weeglos
You sat there taking pictures of them for Reddit when you should have been carving them up and eating them.
Tri-Tip_Master
They always scrunch up. Spritzing is overrated btw. they look good.
Prior_Stress_4978
Did you wrap it?
BigDro_42069
It looks good
Appropriate-Sun834
Yes
notorious_tcb
Of course it’s going to “scrunch up”, you just put it in a 225 oven for hours. Perfectly normal.
I would say your grill needs a good clean or you used too much wood. The bark is a little blacker than I’d want to see. But that’s just personal preference for me.
trustytip
Meat shrinks and bulges when you cook it, beef will be less long but much higher, think of muscles tightening up
Big_k_30
They always do that. I usually don’t get a nice “on the bone” presentation except for maybe the 1 bone in the middle. I usually just remove the bones and the membrane and slice it like brisket. The plate ribs are too expensive for what you end up with IMO, compared to just doing a smaller brisket for half the cost and the basically same end result.
35 Comments
LOL
They always do that. Depends sometimes on the trim.
They look good, were they good?
Dawg it looks good. That’s what it does.
Completely normal dude
That’s what they do.
Looks like crap. Send to me for disposal 👍🏻
First timer?
Thats what beef on a bone does…
Looks fine,if you were wanting to maintain bones attached to the meat, I would take it off at around 195. But if you want juicy and tender 205 is great.
Eat it and circle back to tell us how great they were.
Not an expert, but I think that might be natural. My briskets shrink during cooking – I assume as the muscles contract. How did it taste? If it was banging I really wouldn’t care what it looked like.
Scrunch up? That’s normal for meat to “retract” and show the bone.
How does it taste? That’s what matters.
Looks damn good to me!
Homie you’re good. This is what they do. Now you have built in hand grips to gnaw’em
This is exactly what is supposed to happen when you smoke them
They look beautiful honestly but the true test (texture and taste) only you can judge.
They look amazing!!
Im new to all this but mine always look like that, just natural contracting I think.
Those look perfect as long as their tender prepare to have your mind blown. Dino ribs are amazing.
u/PeriliousKnight this is normal, surprising the first time, but its hella good!
Guy doesn’t know about shrinkage?
Eat the damn ribs boy!
That scrunching up is totally normal for Dino Ribs. How’d they taste, texture, feel?
Looks fire
You’ve done nothing wrong. That’s exactly what I want to see when cooking them. Means you’ve rendered the fat and will have some crazy tender meat
This is near to perfection
You sat there taking pictures of them for Reddit when you should have been carving them up and eating them.
They always scrunch up. Spritzing is overrated btw. they look good.
Did you wrap it?
It looks good
Yes
Of course it’s going to “scrunch up”, you just put it in a 225 oven for hours. Perfectly normal.
I would say your grill needs a good clean or you used too much wood. The bark is a little blacker than I’d want to see. But that’s just personal preference for me.
Meat shrinks and bulges when you cook it, beef will be less long but much higher, think of muscles tightening up
They always do that. I usually don’t get a nice “on the bone” presentation except for maybe the 1 bone in the middle. I usually just remove the bones and the membrane and slice it like brisket. The plate ribs are too expensive for what you end up with IMO, compared to just doing a smaller brisket for half the cost and the basically same end result.
…nowhere?