3-2-1 Smoked Baby Back Ribs

My favorite way so smoke ribs is the 3-2-1 method. It get that name from the time it takes to cook. In a nutshell, you smoke the ribs at 180 bone side down on the smoker grill for 3 hours, then cover the ribs in a pan covered with aluminum foil and cook at 225 for 2 hours, then replace them bone side down on the open grill for 1 hour at 180. The first three hours is cooking and smoking, the 2 hours covered is for tenderness and juiciness, and the last hour is to firm them  up and cook until done.

You can google Treager 3-2-1 ribs and follow that or use what i have hear as i have tweaked it a little to my taste.

FEEDS 6 adults

Items needed

• 2 rack baby back pork ribs
• dry rub mixed
  
• mob sauce and mop
  
• aluminum foil
• aluminum pan 1/2" deep or more

Dry rub ingredient

    There are hundreds of dry rubs for ribs. Use or create your own or save time and use what i use . Salt Grass Seven Steak Spice. It has seven ingredients that most rubs i have seen have already. Mop Sauce is the key to taste anyway in my opinion. Mix all that together and stir well until dark brown. Use this to mop the ribs every hour and right before you wrap them.  

Mop Sauce ingredient

• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup bourbon whiskey (i sub this for Apple cider that some people use)
• 1/3 cup Dijon mustard
• 1 TBS Worcestershire sauce
• 
  1/3 cup warm honey
• 1/3 cup BBQ sauce (your favorite)
  

PREP Work

Prep your smoker to 180.

Rinse the ribs from blood and lay out to prep.

Lay the rack of ribs out and remove the thin membrane on the bone side peeling it back and off. Use a paper towel to grab hold of it and pull. This allows the smoke in to the meat.

Pat the ribs dry on top and add the dry rub rubbing it in and adding as needed to coat the meat side. Turn over and dry rub the bone side as well.

Smoking 

Add a coating of mop sauce and your are ready to place on the grill. 

3 hours at 180

Mop the ribs every hour during the first 3 hours. 

2 hours at 225

Place the ribs in a pan and mop sauce them and cover with foil

1 hour at 180

Uncover and mop again and place bone side down for the remainder of the time.

Remove the ribs and wrap in cellophane and wrap all together in a towel and set aside to rest at least 30 minutes. Your done and ready to enjoy