🍖Smoker BBQ
Kansas City Sticky Spare Ribs
Pork spare ribs with a sweet rub and a thick, sticky tomato-molasses glaze — the KC classic.
30 min
Prep
5 hr 30 min
Cook
Medium
Difficulty
11
Ingredients
5
Steps
Ingredients
Servings
- 1 rack pork spare ribs (St. Louis cut)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic granules
- 1 tsp onion granules
- 2 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp butter
- 150 ml Kansas City BBQ sauce
- Hickory wood
Method
- 1
Remove the membrane and apply the combined sugar, paprika, salt, pepper, garlic and onion.
- 2
Smoke at 120°C (250°F) over hickory for .
- 3
Wrap in foil with the honey and butter and cook a further 1½ hours until tender (the '3-2' stage).
- 4
Unwrap, brush generously with BBQ sauce and firm the glaze for back in the smoker.
- 5
Rest and cut between the bones.
Notes
- KC sauce is thick and sweet — apply it at the end so the sugars don't scorch.
- The honey-butter wrap is what makes them sticky.