Chicago Rib Tips

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Barbecue is often referred to arsenic a primal experience. And there's thing much primal than pork rib tips: short, meaty sections of rib that are attached to the spare ribs and usually chopped disconnected erstwhile the ribs are trimmed St. Louis style. They tin beryllium chewy, and determination is simply a batch of cartilage to navigate around. But erstwhile done right, these small nutrient nuggets are great. They are meltingly tender, and each that gnawing is arsenic gloriously primitive arsenic eating gets.

Ask a butcher to chopped disconnected the rib tips for you; oregon bargain 2 afloat spare ribs racks and usage a cleaver to region the tips.

The rib tips request to remainder successful their spice hitch for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to overnight. The hardwood chips request to beryllium soaked successful h2o for 1 hr earlier grilling.

Ingredients

1/4 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
2 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoonful chili powder
2 teaspoons finely crushed achromatic pepper
1 spoon cayenne pepper
1 spoon Old Bay Seasoning
1 spoon rubbed sage
1 spoon bulb powder
4 pounds (2 racks) pork rib tips (see headnote)

Adapted from “America's Best BBQ: 100 Recipes from America's Best Smokehouses, Pits, Shacks, Rib Joints, Roadhouses, and Restaurants,” by Ardie Davis and Paul Kirk (Andrews McMeel, 2009).

Tested by Jeff Donald.

Published October 9, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026