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Recipes => Pork => Topic started by: Arkansas on August 18, 2018, 08:38:08 PM

Title: Spare ribs
Post by: Arkansas on August 18, 2018, 08:38:08 PM

Do you pull the film off the underside of pork spare ribs like you do with baby backs? After messing with it for a little while, I’m thinking not.

Title: Re: Spare ribs
Post by: Pork Belly on August 19, 2018, 04:06:58 PM

It will come off it is just a bit harder than baby backs. It is not critical, in fact the ribs will be moister if you leave it on.

Title: Re: Spare ribs
Post by: TX Gent on August 21, 2018, 02:20:10 PM

I'll second Pork Belly on leaving back membrane on.

Up until recently I did remove it before smoking. Having read awhile back leaving it on helps hold moisture in the ribs that's the way I've rolled the last two times. Can't say definitively that's the case but I believe it's helping. It's just my sense of it... if that makes sense...lol

The only way to actually know would be to cut a rack in half and smoke half a rack peeled and half not peeled with the same placement in the smoker. Even then without a moister meter(?) the moistness of the meat might not be apparent.

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