Oops
I mentioned in yesterdays post that I ended up making the filet mignon recipe twice. Well the reason was, we decided to cook some beef ribs on Saturday so we could freeze the bones and give them to our dogs whenever we want to give us some quiet time or we have guests over. We started doing this about a year ago and found out that buying a slab of beef ribs is only about 4 dollars and you get around 7 to 8 bones out of it. Much better than buying rawhide bones in the store which go for around 4 bucks a piece. The bones once cooked won't splinter and the dogs just love them. The bonus to all this is that you can make some good BBQ with beef ribs so we get a meal and the dogs get a treat.
That was the plan. We invited some friends over and had everything all ready. I started the ribs early in the day because they take 6 hours to smoke and when I brought them inside the house I was petrified to find out that they were a big hunk of charred bones. After investigating, the meat under the char was still good and cooked fairly well but the outside ruined the flavor. Luckily our dogs aren't as discerning as we are when it comes to taste so they are getting an even bigger treat because they get the meat that we usually eat attached to their bones.
The reasons that I think things went horribly wrong were either my thermometer was reading the wrong temperature or that I put to much smoking wood in the burner. I am going to check the thermometer this weekend but I have a feeling it was the wood. I'm just grateful it wasn't a $30 brisket or pork butt that was on the receiving end of my mistake.