A Primer On Cooking Oven Baked Ribs

The best ribs still happen to be those from Memphis or Kansas City that have been cooked in barbeque pit. These ribs are professionally prepared by pit masters over wood coals for 12 hours or so. One disadvantage of this is that many of us do not have access to these barbeque pits. What are those people who love ribs supposed to do? The oven is the only way that they can bring a semblance of these ribs to their homes. Oven baked ribs are also very tasty and juicy. Open pit ribs will have a smoky flavor that will be lacking in the oven cooked ribs. In case you love the smoky flavor of the open pit cooking, you can achieve a semblance of this using the smoky barbeque sauce or the liquid smoke. The smoky flavor can also be put aside in favor of the moist and juicy ribs that will be prepared in the oven.

Despite the oven taking up only a few hours to cook the ribs as opposed to the 12 hours or so required by the open pit method, the result is impressive. Each and every person that you are expecting should be allocated half rack of ribs if they are to be enough. You will need equipment such as saucepan, oven, a cookie sheet that is lined with foil, large skillet and a large roaster with a rack inside. Ingredients for this recipe include pork ribs that have been removed of excess fat and cut into slabs 3-4 inches, barbeque sauce, 3-4 cups of cooking liquid, salt & pepper and cooking oil. The cooking fluid can be a mixture of anything that you like or some red wine, beef broth and water.

Here is how to cook ribs an oven. Begin with heating up the oven to a temperature of 250 degrees Fahrenheit and then take the fat stripped ribs, sprinkle them on all sides with pepper and salt. Take the skillet and heat up a few olive oil tablespoons over the medium heat range. Take a few batches of ribs and put them into the pan for searing without overcrowding it and proceed to sear the ribs on all sides till they become brown. The ribs may brown but they are yet to be fully cooked and more on the underside. Take the ribs out of the pan and place them on the larger roaster's rack after they have sufficiently browned. Take another pan and heat up your cooking liquid mixture to the boiling point. Have some cooking liquid poured into the roaster's bottom and make certain that it covers the bottom but that it doesn't immerse the ribs. Cover up your ribs and ensure that they cook at 250 degrees for approximately 3 hours. After the three hours elapse, the ribs are ready and they should be taken off the oven and the broiler settings adjusted to high. Have the oven's rack adjusted to six or eight inches over the broiler. Broil them for 2-3 minutes and ensure to brush them with the barbeque sauce till they get ready.