Selecting BBQ Beef Ribs

Series Summary

The term barbeque or barbecue refers to the act, equipment, and food produced when cooking meat over an open fire, charcoal, or gas. The term itself has many competing origins, some say it is a French folk etymology from the words barbe-à-queue, meaning from beard to tail, but others believe it comes from the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean. But despite the debate, BBQ remains an important part of social and family life in many countries, and for many people int he United States, an integral part of the American Dream.

In this free video series, our expert Terry Leafty will show you how to select, season, and cook BBQ beef ribs. He will also teach you how to prepare and finish the sauce, and how to cook BBQ beef ribs in the oven. He'll show you how to prepare the grill and te3achy ou all about good grilling technique. Finally, he will show you how to remove the ribs from the fire and serve.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert village I'm Terry today we are going to talk about preparing barbecue ribs for cooking. Okay ribs are pretty beef ribs are pretty simple for buying you can get them at the local meat market or your local grocery store. Beef ribs average anywhere from $1/25 to $2.50 a pound. In this particular one is a $1.99. These ribs have a lot of ribs on them, always have your fat or your this is called the membrane an this is the meat side. On beef ribs it is usually takes it is very tough meat so it takes anywhere between you should cook them at least 6-8 hours. Depending on whether you are prebaking them in the oven and then finish them off in the grill or if you boil them. If you boil them you need to boil them for about a hour. But it would boil a lot of flavor out it. So that is why choose to wrap them in the tin foil and I place them in the oven for 6 1/2 to 8 hours. "