Types of Ribs - Best choice?

[Hoser]

For me the choices are:

1. St louis style
2. babybacks
3. Country style

[Texas-Hunter]

The bonus to Looie trimming for me (And ALL sausage makers) is the "scrap" tips. You CAN rub 'em up and smoke them too, of course. I chew the gristle...wheee!

Here's a link to a quick tute I did on the scraps.. LINK

I'm a Looie fan as well...

[DennyD]

Spares are by far and away my favorite. I go through all the ribs at the store and buy the slabs that are the thickest and meatiest at the rib ends, then trim em as St Louis ribs. If you take your time and choose em well, they're much meatier than any BB ribs I've ever had, and you've got the rib tips to fix along with the ribs. Always at least one really good sized solid chunk of meat there, and I eat most of the cartilage in the rest of the rib tips. They used to just say shark cartilage was good for you, but now they're using all kinds of cartilage in food supplements. Why buy the supplements when you can get it in your BBQ?