So I am about to embark on my 3rd smoke. I picked up three racks of spare ribs Thursday night, and late last night started my prep work on them.
Got the first rack done, wrapped and in the fridge - opened the second rack and whoa, the stench was horrible. Checked the date on the label, sell by Aug 27th. Third rack was ok. On top of that, I have company which is why I am doing this smoke today, and was embarrassing when I opened that rack up and the stench hit...
What is frustrating to me, especially as I am still new to this - the three times I have bought spare ribs, two times I ended up with a bad rack. The last time, the rack that was bad, I had purchased about 4 days prior, and it's sell buy date was the same as the day I went to prep them, so that was marginal I guess that tim
Does this happen to other folks a lot? It was tough last night as it was already late, and too late to go pick up another rack, will have to do that this morning.
Got the first rack done, wrapped and in the fridge - opened the second rack and whoa, the stench was horrible. Checked the date on the label, sell by Aug 27th. Third rack was ok. On top of that, I have company which is why I am doing this smoke today, and was embarrassing when I opened that rack up and the stench hit...
What is frustrating to me, especially as I am still new to this - the three times I have bought spare ribs, two times I ended up with a bad rack. The last time, the rack that was bad, I had purchased about 4 days prior, and it's sell buy date was the same as the day I went to prep them, so that was marginal I guess that tim
Does this happen to other folks a lot? It was tough last night as it was already late, and too late to go pick up another rack, will have to do that this morning.
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