Name: Grilled Beef Short Ribs
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 180 min
Total time: 190 min
Ingredients: Beef short ribs; Salt; pepper; your favorite BBQ rub; Andria's Steak Sauce

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Grilled Beef Short Ribs? I know you’ve seen them. Those cube like chunks of beef with the little bone on the one side? They are laced with wonderful striations of fat and look like they would be fantastic, but how do you cook them? It’s actually quite simple. You take them to 195-200, or even 203 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 or the meat will be chewy. To get that collagen to liquify it has to go above 195. 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

Beef Short Ribs Enlarged - 1 — Magic Cubes of Deliciousness

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. They also remind me of this pic I put on Instagram:

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

Beef Short Ribs - 5 — Rubbed and Ready Beef Short Ribs

Now time for the Andria’s Steak Sauce:

Beef Short Ribs - 7 — Time for an Andria’s bath

I know some of you are wrinkling your nose right now. Don’t think of that certain A-OK steak sauce. Think heaven. This stuff is not something you dip your steak in after you cook it because a steak needs no sauce after it’s cooked other than maybe a little compound butter melted on top. This is a basting and marinating sauce. It’s absolutely amazing. I use it on everything from meatloaf, scallops to steaks. A poor, but somewhat adequate substitute, for Andria’s is Worcestershire sauce and some granulated garlic.

I poured some on the plate and then dipped each side of the beef short ribs in the Andria’s. Then I dropped the soon to be grilled beef short ribs into my smoker which was hovering right around 300 degrees:

Beef Short Ribs - 8 — Time for a smoke bath

How long does it take to get these short ribs to temp? Depends on how hot the fire is. I did them around 300 and it took close to 3 hours. If you were to do them at say 225, they would take significantly longer. The moral here is don’t judge by time. Judge by temp. Get an instant read thermometer and stop taking the guess work out of your grilling. I can’t tell you how much better my grilling has become since I got one.

Here are my ribs ready to come off the grill:

Remember, you’re looking for 195 to 203. The smallest one of these was sitting at 203 and the biggest was 195, so I covered the entire spectrum.

So how did I do?

Beef Short Ribs - 17 — Great bark? Check Smoke ring? Check Juicy? Check Awesome? CHECK!

One more shot:

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

If you have any questions or comments, leave them below or send me an email.

If you are looking for those huge beef ribs (known as plate ribs) then we can help.

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Grilled Beef Short Ribs

A simple, yet elegant way to make grilled beef short ribs.

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time3 hrs

Total Time3 hrs 10 mins

Course: Entree

Cuisine: BBQ

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

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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.