I prefer to slowly barbecue my country style ribs on the grill on a weekend. No pre boiling or anything. It takes about 2 hours.
However, there are times I want to have barbecue ribs at the end of a workday and just don’t want to spend 2 hours at the grill and not eat until around 7PM.
The crockpot is the answer. I put in my barbecue sauce, about 3/4 of it as I want some left for basting later. Add about a half cup of water and stir thoroughly, then add the ribs. The slow cooker is set at it’s lowest setting for a slow cook.
Now, when I come home, I remove the ribs from the slow cooker to a plate (they are usually falling apart so the ribs might be in smaller parts) and transfer to the grill, which is preheated. I grill them at a medium temperature. It’s only going to take about 10 minutes to grill, so begin basting each side of the ribs with the barbecue sauce from the start, turning often to keep them from burning.
You can see the ribs seperating from the bone. Very tender.
This is the best idea I ever heard of for eating spare ribs. Lets see if I can wait the ten minutes before I have 99% cooked spare ribs. (ha ha ha )
Actually you can pull them out of the slow cooker and eat them when you get home and many people do. I like to put them on the grill first, though, so I can begin coating it with barbecue sauce, not to mention adding the grill flavor. We’re not trying to cook them, just get that barbecue flavor.