Deer Rib Soup

when you skin the deer cut the ribs at the spine then cut the big slab across the bones into thirds so you have racks that look liek they came from the store. Pressure cook them at 10 lbs for 20 minutes or crock pot for 4 hours until they are tender but can still be handled. Put a rib rub on them and put on the grill to char for at bit and baste with a half and half mixture of cider vinegar and mustard. you will never throw deer ribs away again. I use a saws all to cut mine.

Only in Louisiana.

We cut outs into about 2-3in cuts and throw them into our vegetable soup. Highly recommend it

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Deer Rib Soup

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Damn, y’all some hungry SOB to wants make some ribs soup!! But, while your at, could you find a good Deer Hoof Stew recipe?

I've done three ways in order of best to worst:

1. Debone and cut up into about half inch to inch pieces. Add to chili when you put in your chili plate ground meat after cooking down the trinity. I cooked in cast iron dutch oven and let my chili simmer for a good while with the lid on. You get the thick sauciness from the ground chili meat and tender meaty chunks from the stewed down ribs.

2. Debone and flour and fry as steak fingers. Want to cook them down tender, but don't overcook. This is the hard part and I have probably never done it good, but they eat.

3. Smoked on the bone - I have since seen how Steven Rinella does it, but I did mine like some farm pig slabs and I over did it. His pressure cooker method finishing on the grill with a sauce sounds good.

After doing them the way I did in my chili I will save all ribs from now on out. Its really not that much trouble to debone them. Just get that outside layer of fat off. Can do at camp in a half hour over 2 beers.

Put deer ribs in pot of water, couple onions cut in half, garlic and couple cap full of crab boil....boil ribs until tender...a while!!! Remove from water, dry rub seasoning...put on pit or broil in oven on bottom rack...add sweet baby rays....get ribs sticky with bbq sauce...Thank me later! Judging by some of these posts, most of these folks never been poor! We used to eat everything on a deer back when I was a kid. Necessity taught us how to cook it well....

Fast forward to these days....I throw them away 90% of the time cause I’m not poor any more, but every once and a while my brother and I will sit, spit and drink a beer and talk about the good ole days and we will cook those deer ribs or smoke a coon just for the old days...seem to taste better now we don’t HAVE to eat it anymore!

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I heard this is the best thing to make with the ribs. Any tips?

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Tips? Yes, the person telling you that hates you and wants you to spend the next day with some weird waxy feeling in the roof of you mouth. Avoid that person from now on.