re: How do yall smoke your ribs?

On my old offset smoker, I would get a good fire going in the smoker, and spread a thin line of coals around the perimeter of the grill area. Once they were white, and the temp below 300, I put the ribs on. I would use a chimney starter on my side burner to get more coals going, and only add them after they were done flaming, and put soaked wood chunks, like big huge large chunks, on top of it. About 3 hours total time.

For the rub, I just made some out of brown sugar, salt, paprika, and a few other things. Turned out pretty good. I prefer doing mine all dry, so no sauce except a bottle for those that want to put it on at the table. I've also used some of Emeril's essence as a starter for the rub, and added brown sugar to it. Had a little more spice to it but they were still good. I could fit 3 large racks on my old smoker with ease, without having to put them in racks. About an hour into it I flipped them around so that one end wasn't at the smoker end the whole time.

On my new-ish Weber 22.5 inch kettle, I use the snake method. Turned out great.