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I really like the shape of this rack as it accommodates the larger pork spare ribs, which I really like. It provides plenty of space between the racks, assuring that smoke flavor will permeate and that you can easily mop the ribs if you so desire.
That said, cleanup is a bear!! The previous reviewer asserted that cleanup is easy....I beg to differ. The rack has a lot of wires and they are not at all easy to scrub. This may be advertised as 'Non-Stick' but several hours in a smoker will bake on a lot of 'gunk'. Even after soaking, the 'stuff' was still present. I finally gave up and sprayed it with oven cleaner. That was an improvement but I don't know how this will impact the rack over the long run. I am not sure that I will be using this accessory again.
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I purchased this for my dad for Father's Day, I'm not sure why but he's suddenly been on a rib kick. He and my mom saw this contraption on some TV show and specifically requested it.When it came in the mail (I'd ordered from Amazon as they had it at the lowest price at the time of my ordering) I discovered that the thing was HUGE. Now this wasn't a problem for my dad who has an enormous gas grill that puts most grills to shame, but it never would have fit on my dinky little Home Depot Discount Grill.
The wire was all coated with a non-stick layer which I knew right away would be a beast to clean but it's what he wanted! So I assembled my pile of gifts, including a smoker box and some Charbroil Hickory Wood Chips, 2 Pound Bagand headed over to the parent's house. We cooked ribs that day, both the sauce covered and dry rub kind. The large size of the Rib Rack allowed us to fit enough on there to serve the entire family. Now of course we weren't allowed to know what all Dad did to them top secret info, but they were fantastic!
The negative is that my sister and I had to do the cleanup and that thing is a real pain to clean. With Dad being a neat freak we had to scrub and scrub and scrub finally we gave in and informed him that there would always be little dark spots on it similar to his rotissery basket.
Though I don't expect he'll use it often, I do know that he'll use it again the next time he decides to cook up a pile of ribs.
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Steven Raichlen's three seminal grilling cookbooks (How to Grill, Barbecue Bible and BBQ USA) are, far and away, the dirtiest, rattiest, most falling-apart cookbooks on my shelf. I think about buying new copies, but then I'd have to spend hours copying all of my margin notes on the recipes.Steve's line of grilling accessories show the same dedication to grilling and smoking incredibly great food that his cookbooks do. I have a few of his toys and goodies, and, far and away, the one I love most is this grilling rack. No compromises, no cut corners--this is the perfect tool for grilling ribs in the back yard on your classic Weber kettle grill. (The packaging doesn't advertise the fact, but the rack was plainly designed to fit exactly on a standard 22 inch Weber, leaving the side areas uncovered so you can add coal and wood to the fire.)
It works beautifully with baby backs, spareribs, and the larger beef ribs, doubling the typical capacity of the grill and exposing everything to that yummy smoke. My restults have been uniformly wonderful. Sturdy and durable, too. While the coating is advertised as "non-stick," I do find it best to wiggle the ribs around a couple of times in the first hour of cooking. After that, you're golden. As for cleanup, I get good results by running mine through the diswasher...although it should be no secret that anything used in smoke cooking is unlikely to be perfectly clean ever again.
This review is giving me an appetite...I wonder if I can stop by the supermarket for some beef ribs on the way home?
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If you baste your ribs when smoking them, this is not a good choice. It has way too many wires. It is a cleaning nightmare takes up to an hour to clean after smoking ribs for several hours.Also, once Baby Backed Ribs are smoked in this to the point that they are "fall-off-the-bone-tender", they are very, very difficult to remove from the rack. Because there are so many wires that are too close together, the ribs cannot be removed vertically or horizontally from this rack after they are done. The curved ribs get caught below the top wires and cannot be removed. It is way over-engineered to a fault making smoking ribs a real chore.
I have tried three different non-stick sprays on this rack prior to using it to no avail. I have stopped using it for Baby-Back-Ribs after at least a dozen uses.
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