Brithday Ribs & Wings

Beef & Pork Ribs, Buffalo Wings and Sweet Potatoes on A Royall 3000

Patti had called a few of my friends and planned a surprise get together for my birthday. Some of these guys I haven’t seen in years. With some of the stories from Ken’s past, Patti was shocked to hear he lived to celebrate this many birthdays! You don’t know how happy I was to see who our “Crash Test Dummies “were tonight.

We did 6 racks of ribs both beef and pork all with a different rub. On the wings we used Grandville’s Extra Spicy BBQ Jam; it has a nice snap to it. Then, on the sweet potatoes I finished them off with Grandville’s Ginger BBQ Jam.

To add an extra layer of flavor I used Dr. Pepper to hold my racks. Along with a big pot of our baked beans, this was a real treat for everyone. I can’t understand why anyone would want to go out and eat when they can do this…

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 6 hours

Grill: Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill

Pellets: House blend: hickory, oak and cherry

Ingredients: Ribs, Beef & Pork

4 racks of pork ribs

2 racks of beef ribs

5 cans of soda, we used Dr. Pepper

Your favorite dry rub or rubs (we used 6 different rubs today)

Ken’s famous beans

Recipes for wings and potatoes to follow

Ribs on the Royall 3000

Directions: Rub the ribs down real good and place on the grill. Last two hours of cooking/smoking add the chicken and potatoes. Sauce the chicken and potatoes the last 30 minutes of your cooking time. If you like to sauce your ribs do them now, too. Sometimes we sauce them on the grill but mostly we serve sauce on the side when we’re doing ribs.

Cooking Directions: Royall Wood Pellet Grill

Open the lid and set the dial to “Smoke”, turn it on. After about five minutes you can shut the lid. Give it about 10 minutes to heat up. Patti has lined the drip pan with foil for me, it makes for easier clean up. Place everything directly onto the grill and just let it hang out in the smoke and get happy for 6 hours or so. This is referred to as “smoking”; the temperature is around 165-180 degrees. You want to hit 190 degrees with your ribs. Low & Slow.

I added my soda cans and stacking grill grate at the beginning so we wouldn’t have to deal with them hot. The soda steams as you’re cooking, adding another layer of flavor and keeping things moist.

Using Diet Dr. Pepper, should we call these our diet ribs? The Royall 3000 has the stacking grates, but I wanted to try the Dr. Pepper. I liked how it worked and will be doing it again. Patti wants to try the cherry Dr. Pepper next time.

The last 2 hours of your cooking time add the chicken and sweet potatoes. It was pointed out to me that you never put chicken on the top shelf. The drippings will drip down onto other food and if you don’t get the temperature to at least 165 it is possible you can make someone sick. I like my ribs to hit 190 that are where they start to break down and get real tender.

Add the sauce last 30 minutes of your cooking time so the sugar does not burn.

Note: I used a spray bottle when cooking on the grill filled with a 25/75 Worcestershire sauce and Dr. Pepper mix that keeps things moist and adds tons of flavors.

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees, anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.

Cooking In the Oven:

We have been getting requests for recipe conversions for the oven. I tell folks all the time that cooking on a Royall wood pellet grill is just as easy as cooking in your oven. Just about anyone can do it and do it well. Think about it. You set your control knob to the temp you want, put your meat in and leave it for a set time.

It is the same thing, time and temp. is what it is all about. The Royall is just like your oven except it uses wood pellets and has wheels.

If you want to smoke in your oven they sell oven smokers for that. I, myself, would not spend the money on one of those when you can make your own out of foil.

Foil smoke packets. (Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.) Just set it in the oven. You might want to make sure you turn on your vent fan or your house will fill up with smoke. You will give your alarms a good work out.

Beef and Pork Ribs. Buffalo Wings,  Sweet Fingerling Potatoes
and Ken’s Special Baked Beans

About our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Royall Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker, Traeger, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pellet heads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can even do some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste.

Take it and run with it….

Live your Passion,

Ken & Patti

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