How To Smoke Ribs On A Pellet Grill | Weber SmokeFire EX6 Pellet Grill

0:04 how you doing i'm darren with ash kickin bbq if this is your first time to the channel then welcome if you've been here before then welcome back today we're talking ribs now today's cook is gonna be a special one this is my first smoke sesh on the weber smoke fire ex-6 second generation i'm really excited to see how this cooker does and it's also going to be a collaboration cook with my buddy tommy over at the gallery backyard

0:28 barbecue he's cooking a rack of ribs on his weber smoke fire ex-6 second generation and so i will have a link for his video up top or down below you can go and check that out and let him know that i sent you over there i'm pretty excited to be doing a collaboration with tommy he's a great guy he's an awesome cook so be sure you go over and check out his channel if you haven't already

0:50 now we're going to be doing just a rib cook on this weber smoke fire and i'm pretty excited to see how it turns out now like i said in my burn-in video the first generations did have some issues with the cookers as far as grease fires and stuff like that now we're going to be keeping this rib cook very simple we're just going to be using chicken fried barbecue texas rib grind bill pervice's rub i'm pretty

1:14 excited to try it this is the only rub we're going to be using this is just going to be a good at-home eating rack of ribs now what we have here is just a rack of st louis cut ribs this started off as a rack of full spare ribs that i trimmed down myself went ahead and removed the membrane just got it squared up and looking pretty decent so that's what we're going to be going with today

1:33 if you're curious how i trimmed this rack of ribs from a rack of spare ribs down to a rack of st louis cut i'll have a video up top you can go and check that out it shows you a complete breakdown of how to break these down it's really simple but this is a very nice looking rack of ribs it's very well marbled we got some good fat on there and i think it's going to cook up really well

1:52 providing that the weber smoke fire does its job so let's bring in and show you how we're gonna prep these ribs up all right guys so like i said this is gonna be a very simple simple cook just some nice eater ribs i like to start on the bottom and take our texas rib grind we're just going to hit it and it's got some really nice savory notes to it some sweet notes it's got some really coarse black pepper in

2:18 there which i love i'm a big fan of black pepper so we're just going to go ahead and get that pressed in and we're also going to make sure we get our edges right now always get your edges all right now at this point we're just going to flip it over and we're going to hit the top and because this is the only rub that we're using feel free to go a little heavier with it it's a good size rack of ribs and it can

2:42 handle it and like i said we're not we're not layering rubs on today we're just going with one delicious flavor on these ribs i love the coarseness to this rub i love the black pepper to this rub it's going to be absolutely delicious all right guys we have our rack of ribs seasoned up one thing i like to do is just make sure that i got all my edges and i just use the xs on the board for

3:04 that so that's looking pretty good now i'm just going to let these sweat out for a little bit we're going to head out to the weber smoke fire ex-6 get it fired up we're going to be running at 275 degrees today i like to cook ribs at 300 but i'm gonna run at 275 today just because i don't know how that pit works and i don't want a grease fire on there so we're just gonna run at 275 let it get

3:26 some good smoke and the first step we're just going to be cooking these to color once they have a good color and our bark is set then we'll be wrapping them but i'll bring you along for the process so i'll meet you outside at the weber smoke fire we have our ribs on the weber smoke fire we're running at 275 degrees i just kind of bunched these together like this got them straightened out how you put them

3:49 on is how they're going to cook so we're just going to let these go for about an hour and a half and then we'll come out and check on them so we'll see you guys in an hour and a half so it has been an hour and a half you can see our ribs are looking really good we got some nice color we're starting to get a little pull back down here now they are looking a little dry so i'm

4:07 just going to go ahead and just give them a little spritz just to keep them moist the color is almost where we want i'd say about another half hour or so maybe 45 minutes but they're looking really good we're still running at 275 degrees we've had a lot of nice smoke rolling on here the weber's been running flawlessly so that's fantastic so i'm gonna let these go about another half hour 45 minutes i'll bring you back and then we'll get

4:31 them wrapped up and see how they finish out so see you guys then so it has been two hours you can see our ribs have fantastic color here the bark has set nothing's coming off when we touch it so let's get these inside and get them wrapped up and finish off this cook because i'm excited to try them and see how see how they are you can see the smoke fire's putting out some really great smoke even at 275 so

4:55 meet you guys in the house and we'll get these wrapped up all right guys go ahead and check out that color it's looking absolutely awesome pretty even color all around and then on the bottom nothing is too burnt up so that is fantastic right there the weber is doing a fantastic job which i'm really really happy about i was kind of going into this wondering how it was going to go but no issues whatsoever been running at 275 the entire time and

5:22 like i said fantastic color on those ribs so we're going to go ahead and get them wrapped now all right so to wrap these up we're kind of running my normal process we're just going to do a few pads of butter and then we're going to do a little head country apple habanero i like this wrap at home just using some sauce because the sauce has you know some sugar and you know all that stuff that people

5:43 usually wrap with is already in your sauce so kind of makes it easier just use some sauce adds a little moisture in there as well now at this point we're just going to go ahead get our ribs on and we're just going to wrap them up like we normally would i got two sheets of aluminum foil here heavy duty and i like to just go over and over and just fold them up nice and tight right there

6:16 and at this point we're going to get them back out onto the weber so we will see you guys in one hour so it has been one hour in the wrap we're gonna go ahead and check our ribs now we got some nice pull back along the bones here we got a little bone starting to blow out here that's usually a good indicator that they're done i'm just going to go ahead and yeah they're probing like butter that's fantastic

6:45 center bone there if you're curious about internal temperature it's about 203 205 205 degrees there middle bone so those are done now what we're going to do at this point is we're just going to slide this over here and we're going to go ahead and grab our ribs and look at that absolutely wonderful great color nice pull back now what we're going to do here is we're just going to

7:16 set them right there and we're just going to let them sit in the cooker for about three minutes and get their color back we just want to go ahead and get the color back on these we want this to dry out and then to sauce we're just going to use this wrap liquid here there's butter and sauce in there i don't like a real saucy rib at home so we're just going to leave this in here

7:37 to keep warm and we're going to let that dry out and then we're just going to sauce them quick so i'll see you guys in about two three minutes all right guys it's been about three minutes you can see right here the color that came back on those ribs that's fantastic beautiful color on there so that's what letting them dry out a little bit does and that is a fantastic color so now all we're going to do

8:03 is just get our wrap mixture here and we're just going to sauce these up a little bit and it's going to be a real light glaze but it's going to be really nice and have a nice richness to it with that butter in there and then it's got that sauce that we wrapped with in there so this is just kind of how i've been liking to do it as of lately at home very nice looking rack of ribs here on this weber

8:31 very happy with how these are looking so far and that is all we're going to do for our sauce so we can get that out of there now at this point we're just gonna let this sauce set for maybe five minutes so i'll pick back up in five minutes all right guys so it has been about five minutes go ahead and check out those ribs great color nice glaze on them nice pull back and these babies are done

9:00 we are going to get them inside let them rest on the board and then we're going to do a taste test so i'll meet you in the house in a little bit all right guys and here we are we got our weber smoke fire ribs ready to go they look awesome smell wonderful have a good smoke smell to them and i'm really excited to try them and see how the weber smoke fire did you can see they're extremely tender

9:25 they're bending they're not breaking a little split right there i think these are cooked very well we're going to find out when we slice into them so let's just go ahead and do that now just go ahead and yup slicing like absolute butter gotta love it these are some good ribs actually i'd have maybe considered these for an extra set of comp ribs to be honest check that out we got a lot of moisture in there we got

9:52 a nice smoke ring beautiful bark great color on there and i am very excited to try that is a fantastic looking rib right there if i do say so myself and everything so far in this cook has shown me that the weber smoke fire is a good cooker but at the end of the day all that matters is taste so let's go ahead and give this a try that's a clean bite off the bone it's tender it's delicious it's juicy

10:25 wonderful flavor from bill's rub the texas rib grind really nice smoke flavor from that weber kudos to them on that that is a really good flavor on there go ahead and check that out nice clean bone really really great flavor on those ribs i'm very impressed with that cooker so far weber you passed the first test great job on there and again just look at how great these ribs look they look phenomenal

10:56 a lot of moisture in them and that just comes from quality ribs go you know buy well marbled ribs buy quality ribs that's your biggest thing in cooking a great rib but yeah absolutely awesome i'm gonna try this one because this is a big dog clean bite weber well done it seems like you've made some adjustments obviously this is just the first test we're going to put this thing through the ringer though and i'm really looking forward to

11:26 trying it out again fantastic ribs if you haven't tried bill's texas rib grind absolutely give that a try this is my favorite kind of rib for at home not too saucy just a good eating rib guys also be sure you go over to tommy's channel at the gallery backyard barbecue and check out his video on his ribs on the smoke fire this is a really great collaboration i'm glad he brought it up thank you tommy for that i really appreciate it and i'm

11:51 really looking forward to see what we're both going to be cooking up on this smoke fire because if i know tommy which i think i do he's going to be putting that thing through the ringer and so am i and we're not going to hold anything back so first test weber you passed now we got some more work to do guys i hope you enjoyed this video if you did be sure to like subscribe ring that bell

12:12 stay safe and i will see you next time