NEVER Grill Your Ribs Again — Try This Old FARM Trick

Find All my recipes in one place! Otis Granger Cook Book: https://otisgranger.com/ There's a rack of ribs on a grill somewhere right now — black on the outside, the sauce gone to tar, and when he cuts into it the meat is gray and clinging to the bone. Everybody at the table chews a long time and says they're good. They're not. And it isn't his fault. He was handed a steak tool and told to cook a roast with it. I find the grills rusted through in the garages of the houses I clear. And on top of the cabinets in the same house is the roaster — and that's where the ribs in that house actually came from for fifty years. The grill was his. The roaster was hers. Hers were the ones people remembered. My mother never owned a grill. She made ribs every third Sunday from butchering to spring, and I haven't had better in four states since. A roaster, a lid, and one thing she put UNDER the ribs that nobody puts under ribs anymore. I'm Otis. Forty years of barns and estate auctions across the Midwest, and the kitchen is the last room I clear. In this one: the three cuts and which one the store hopes you buy — the membrane you must pull off every rack — why a grill can't cook a rib, in plain chemistry (and why boiling them first is worse) — salt the NIGHT BEFORE, and why — the lid, and why a covered roaster beats an open grill at any price — the bend test and the bone twist instead of a thermometer — why sauce goes on in the last twenty minutes, not the first — cutting from the bone side — and the eighth piece, the thing she put under the ribs that I have never once seen in a modern kitchen. A quart of sauerkraut, an onion, ribs on top, lid on, three hours. The kraut steams them, the drippings cook the kraut, and the side dish makes itself. That's the farm trick — and it's why she never needed a grill. Honest warnings in the video: a real smoker makes a flavor an oven can't, and this is for the other ninety percent. Hate kraut? Onions and an apple do most of the same job. Did your mother put the ribs in the oven or did your father put them on the grill — and whose were better? Be honest. Tell me, and tell me her name. I read every one.