Wild Wiily's Wondeerful Rib Rub

[chowder]

RUB:

1/4 cup paprika

1/4 cup fresh ground black pepper

1/4 cup coarse sea salt

1/4 cup sugar

2 tblspns chili powder

2' ' garlic powder

2' ' onion powder

2 ' ' cayenne pepper (DO NOT GET THIS IN YOUR EYE)

MOP:

1 Beer (I like to use Saranac Black & Tan)

1/4 cup cider vinegar

1/4 ' ' veg. oil

1/2 med onion (chunked)

2 cloves garlic

1 tbl spoon Worcestershire sauce

1 tbl spoon of the rub from above.

Glaze:

11/2 cups ketchup

1 cup beer

1/4 cup cider vinegar

1/4 cup minced cilantro

3 tbl spoons packed brown sugar

2 ' ' Worcestershire sauce

2 gloves garlic, minced

2 teaspoons gound cumin

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 ' ' Tabasco

Ok, night before smoking apply 1/2 the rub to the ribs, put ribs in plastic bag & in fridge

Next day, get the smoker to temp ( I like 210)

Get out the ribs, hit them lightly again w/ the rub & into the smoker

mop the ribs every once/hour I fill the smoker w/ as many as I can get in there.

IMPORTANT- if you are going to hunt while the ribs are smoking don't leave too much beer w/ the person who is supposed to mop them. ALSO- always hunt downwind of the smoker- I got a nice 6 pt two years ago on the last day of muzzle loader using the smell of the smoker to cover the rub scent that was on me!

smoke ribs for 3 hours or so

As the ribs approach 3 hours in the smoker (this when I dragged in the 6 pt and found the beer gone...) You need to heat the glaze in a saucepan carefully to reduce and thicken it.

Brush the ribs w/ the glaze 1 or twice durint the last hour in the smoker (stop basting w/ the mop when you start using the glaze)

Kids like to slobber even more glaze on the ribs so that's where any extra can go.

[muskybob]

Nice recipe chowder, thanks. Who's wild willy?

[hermit]

Wild Willy's rub is from Smoke & Spice by Bill and Cheryl Jamison. Though if I remember right the original recipe calls for 2 teaspoons of cayenne not 2 tablespoons.

Excellent BBQ book, only thing I ever made from it I didn't like was the Apple City Baby Back Ribs- junk. Otherwise highly recommend the book and rub!

Dang maybe I can get my neighbor to give me some ribs one year.