Ribfest 2011 - Find our favorite rib recipe

Now that I've used the big green egg some more and have a good feeling for how it works, I figured now is as good a time as any to work on finding a go to rib recipe.

The plan was to take 6 different racks of baby back ribs, try 6 different rub / sauce combos and do a blind taste test with a neighbor who also loves BBQ. From there Ribfest was on.

I had the colored rubber bands that are used to keep roasts together. I crated a unique color combo per rib and rubbed each up. Gave each rib a few hours in the rub, pulled out of the fridge to get to room temperature. Using the V-rack I put all 6 ribs in the rack and got ready to warm up the egg.

For Rib fest we tried the following:
Store bought Famous Daves Rub and Sauce
Store bought Dinosaur BBQ Rub and Sauce
Chris Lilly's Memphis BBQ Rib Recipe from his book Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book
The Rib Recipe from the Weber Way to Grill Book
Bourbon Rib Recipe from Smoke and Spice Book
And a recipe from the web

I fired up the egg with some cherry and apple wood chips, let the egg reach 300 degrees and put the ribs in for a 3 hour smoke.

Once the 3 hours were up I took all of the ribs out to baste each in sauce and put back on at full heat in the egg for a good hot seer.

We broke each Rib combo into individual bones and did a blind taste test of all 6 ribs.

We really enjoyed all of them, but in the end the consensus for best taste was the Weber Way to Grill Recipe. I just had the best overall full flavor.

We had a lot of fun trying this eggventure. It wasn't the easiest to make 6 different combos and keep them all separated, but I'm glad we did and can't wait to make an entire batch of the weber recipe.

Up Next: Vacation, we're going to be gone for 2 weeks, so no eggventures for a couple of weeks.