NEVER Wrap Your Ribs in Foil Again - Try This Old SOUL FOOD Trick

📖 Get all 305 of Grandma's secrets here: https://earlenetatum.com You laid the rack on a sheet of foil, wrapped it tight, and put it in the oven for three hours. When you opened it the meat was grey and soft and sitting in its own water, and the bones slid loose in your hand. Somebody said that is how you know it is done. It is not. Falling off the bone is not the same thing as done. The foil did that. This is the rack the way it came off a pit in the yard behind the smokehouse: the long rack off the side of the hog, a small pecan fire you read with your hand, the meat on one side and the coals on the other, salt the night before, a rag on a stick, sauce in the last half hour, and one thing she did with the rack in the twenty minutes after it came off the fire that I have never seen another soul do. That is the eighth piece and it is saved for the end. Seven pieces get you there, and I tell you why each one works so you can run your own fire without me. Here is the afternoon, in order: 0:00 Why a foil rib comes out grey and soft 2:27 One. The right rack, and the skin on the back 4:24 Two. A small fire and a long afternoon 6:17 Three. Where the meat sits and the lid comes down 8:14 The summer I wrapped every rack 10:05 Four. Salt the night before, uncovered 11:51 Five. The mop: a coffee can and a rag on a stick 13:34 Six. Sauce last, thin, twice 15:29 Seven. How you know it is done, and why falling off the bone is not it 17:46 Off the fire, and the corner nobody gets out of 19:32 Eight. What she wrapped it in 21:48 If you have no yard 22:42 The whole afternoon in eight lines 23:30 Your Saturday There is a new recipe here every single day. Come back and cook with me. Next time I am doing green beans. Most of you drop them in boiling water for six minutes and pull them out bright green and squeaky. That is a raw bean with the colour cooked off it. Callie Mae's went in the pot after breakfast and came out at supper, and I am going to show you what went in that pot with them.