Grilled Beef Short Ribs

Beef short ribs, slathered in a brush on steak sauce (not that stuff used to mask the taste of bad steaks) and then slow smoke on a kamado grill over charcoal and smoke wood. These grilled beef short ribs are cooked until super tender, extremely juicy and finally, beyond tasty. There just isn’t anything better than smoked beef ribs. 

Grilled Beef Short Ribs? I know you’ve seen them. Those cube-like chunks of beef with the little bone on the one side should not be confused with beef plate ribs which are much, much larger and more expensive? Beef short ribs are loaded with striations of fat making them incredibly delicious if cooked properly.

Additionally, if you haven’t tried beef back ribs yet, I highly recommend them. 

It’s actually quite simple. You take them to 195F-200F, or even 203F as some suggest, just like a brisket. See, there’s a lot of collagen to go along with that fat which has to be melted. Otherwise the meat will be chewy.

Further, to get that collagen to liquefy it has to go above 195F. So treat it like a brisket, except the smaller size means not having to smoke for 12 hours.

I did these in under 3.

Grilled Beef Short Ribs Ingredients:

• Beef short ribs
• Salt
• Pepper
• Your favorite BBQ rub
• Andria’s Steak Sauce

I almost feel like they should have dots ranging from 1-6 on the side and I should be rolling them down some green felt.

How to Prepare Grilled Beef Short Ribs

Simply coat all six sides of the beef short rib cubes with salt, pepper and then the BBQ rub:

Now time for the Andria’s Steak Sauce:

Steak Sauce?

I know some of you are wrinkling your nose right now. Don’t think of that certain A-OK steak sauce. Think heaven. This is not something you use to mask the taste of a bad steak. This is brushed on during the cooking process to enhance the flavor of steak. It’s also great a marinade. It’s absolutely amazing. Thus, I use it on everything from pizza to venison to oysters to steaks. A poor, but somewhat adequate substitute for Andria’s is Worcestershire sauce and granulated garlic/minced garlic (or even jarlic). Make sure to give it a go in meatloaf or burgers (trust me!)

I poured some on the plate and then dipped each side of the beef short ribs in the Andria’s.

On a side note, Andria’s launched an amazing new BBQ sauce which is surprisingly low on sugar. We used the sauce on these smoked pork steaks and these ribs we cooked on a gas grill. 

How to Grill Beef Short Ribs on a Charcoal Grill

Then I dropped the beef short ribs into my kamado grill hovering right around 300F degrees:

How long does it take to get these beefies to temp? Depends on how hot the fire is. I did them around 300F and thus it took close to 3 hours.

If you were to do them at say 225F, they would take significantly longer.

The moral here is don’t judge by time. Indeed, judge by temp. Get an instant read thermometer.

Stop guessing.

I can’t tell you how much better my grilling has become since I got one.

Finally, here are the short ribs ready to come off the kamado grill:

How long should you grill short ribs?

Cook to temp and not time. They need to be cooked to between 195F and 203F.

Of the ones I grilled here, the smallest one was sitting at 203F and the biggest was 195F, thus I covered the entire spectrum.

Indeed, how did I do?

One more shot:

Grilled Beef Short Ribs Recap

That’s it. Season with salt and pepper, then rub them and give them a little bath of sultry/savory and throw them into the smoker.

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Grilled Beef Short Ribs

Grilled Beef Short Ribs are simply seasoned, slathered in Andria's and then smoked on the grill until they are uber tender and juicy with a lovely bark.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time3 hours hrs

Total Time3 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Course: Entree, Finger Food, Main Course

Cuisine: American, American Fare, Barbecue, BBQ, Beef Ribs

Keyword: #Grilled, #Smoked, Andria's, Andria's Barbecue Sauce, Andria's BBQ Sauce, Andria's Steak Sauce, Andrias Brush-On Steak Sauce, Barbecue Beef Ribs, BBQ Beef Ribs, Beef Short Ribs, Grill, Pellet Cooker, Pellet Grill, Pellet Heater, Pellet Smoker, Short Ribs, Smoked Beef Ribs, Smoker

Servings: 4 People

Ingredients

• Beef short ribs
• Salt
• pepper
• your favorite BBQ rub
• Andria's Steak Sauce

Instructions

• Season the beef short ribs with salt, pepper and your favorite rub
• Pour some Andria's on a plate and dip each side in the sauce
• Place on a 300 degree smoker with some smoke wood (I used pecan)
• Smoke until they get to 195-203
• Remove from the heat and serve

Scott Thomas

Scott Thomas, the Original Grillin’ Fool, was sent off to college with a suitcase and a grill where he overcooked, undercooked and burned every piece of meat he could find. After thousands of failures, and quite a few successes, nearly two decades later he started a website to show step by step, picture by picture, foolproof instructions on how to make great things out of doors so that others don’t have to repeat the mistakes he’s made on the grill.

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This article was initially published on: March 29, 2016