Quick advice: about ribs in a rack

[jim D]

I am in the middle of doing three slabs in a rack that holds them on edge. I never used a rack before.

It is on a smoker with indirect heat - actually it is a ceramic egg with the deflector plate in place.

I want to know if I should turn them over during this cook, to get the other side of the slab pointing down toward the indirect heat source.

THANKS Folks!

[k.a.m.]

If you are going to wrap I would probably flip them half way through the open time. This will let both edges even up some.
I do not use racks but this is probably how I would do it.

[OldUsedParts]

JD, I'm not familiar with the deflector plate but I did 3 racks in a rib rack on my ECB for Christmas Day and "did not" flip them. They cooked uniform and were delicious according to the ?guest judges? I put the meatier side down for the entire cook and after 5 hours at 235 I double wrapped them in foil and put in an Ice Chest/Cooler to rest before slicing. However, it sure wouldn't hurt anything to flip them if you're not worried about loosing heat as I was.

[k.a.m.]

JD, I did 3 racks in a rib rack on my ECB for Christmas Day and "did not" flip them. They cooked uniform and were delicious according to the ?guest judges? I put the meatier side down for the entire cook and after 5 hours at 235 I double wrapped them in foil and put in an Ice Chest/Cooler to rest before slicing. However, it sure wouldn't hurt anything to flip them if you're not worried about loosing heat as I was.

And there you have it.
Good looking bones.

[OldUsedParts]

thank you, Sir

[jim D]

Thank you all for commenting. I read this on my phone while outside, and took action, but did not post immediately.

As is often the case with this or any cooking method, I decided it was more or less a toss up. With that, I thought I'd try to flip one and see what happened. It turned out to be easy so I did them all.

I did not foil them for cooking but have foil over them to rest in a throw away aluminum pan. People will come over at 6:30 tonight. I was able to keep them at right at 260 deg F from 12:15PM to 4:45PM. For the last hour I felt thy had shrunk some, so I got them all out of the rack, to lay flat on the grill.

I cut one out of a rack and have judged them to be very good, indeed. Thanks everybody. It is easy to get nervous when you are doing something sort of new and a football/NYE crowd is headed your way!

[OldUsedParts]

ooooo, a football NYE crowd can be dangerous if you mess with their snacks
however, it sounds like you made it all line up for the opening kick off

pics???? hint hint hint