Memphis style method for ribs

1. : memphis style refers to the john wills method and recipe of john wills bar-b-que pit, in east memphis tennessee.
2. John and his family have provided pork ribs "crunchy brown on the outside and lean white in the middle with a sweet and tangy sauce.
3. " step #1: the memphis starts with rubbing a spicy dry marinade into the meat before cooking.
4. Step #2: tending the ribs on a long, low, smokey fire, of white oak or hickory.
5. Bastingi with a second marinade, turning often on a horizontal rack, every half hour or so. Cook over a (225°F) degree, smokey fire.
6. Cooking could take 5 to 9 hours depending on the size of the cooker etc. Stop using the basting sauce about an hour before serving.
7. Step #3: warm the memphis sweet sauce and either brush it on during the last 20 minutes of cooking or serve it on the side.
8. Weber method; see #1 above and then.
9. Cook on low indirect fire on a large weber kettle with chunk style charcoal.
10. Use a water filled drip pan under the ribs, a boiling pot of water over the coals.
11. Stand the ribs up on edge in a vertical rack, and try to cook the ribs on a calm day, (wind under 10mph).
12. Cook 5 to 7 hours basting often (every half hour), with the basting sauce, stop using the basting sauce about an hour before serving.
13. See step #3 above for sweet sauce tips.
14. Mikenote: this recipe along with the following recipes will provide you with the most mouth watering ribs you ever locked a lip on. : memphis style method : memphis style dry marinade : memphis style basting sauce : memphis style sweet bbq sauc.