smokinbill said:
007bond-jb said:
Smokinbill if anyone tried boiled then grilled ribs side by side with smoked ribs, Smoked will win in every catagorys hands down
007bond-jb, it really depends on who's judging them.
It really doesn't matter ifin' she boils them, bakes them or stomps all over them before she eats 'em.
What I found silly for a place that is all about discussing food and cooking is the attitude of scorn and derision to an opinion different then what you are used to hearing.
Y'all sound like a bunch a old style classically trained French chefs worried 'bout their jobs.
It's just a piece a meat and just some lady doing her best to make a living.
Give her a break by quietly standing by what you believe is best.
I read this yesterday and it irritated me that someone would make these statements in a forum designed for free speech. I had planned a few reductio arguments, but you wouldn't get them. I had thought about telling you the difference between barbecue and faux-B-Q, but you wouldn't understand that either. I was going to complain about the advertising industry in general, but you are part of the machine at best. I could have talked about how no one here is employed to espouse these opinions we do it because we love it, but you clearly wouldn't get that either. I thought about trying to explain how true chefs have a respect for the food they are cooking, but you believe its just a piece of meat. You are accurate that it is just a lady; probably a pleasant one that lives in a nice neighborhood. Her only fault is trying to be an expert on something she is clearly not-- probably because someone paid her and handed her a script.
What I am going to take issue with, and I am not the first, is this stand quietly by crap. If your child came home from school and said "Dad/Mom we learned today that 2 + 3 = 6." Would you stand quietly by because the number was larger and it shouldn't matter that the answer was wholly incorrect as long as they were nice and trying to do the right thing? I should hope not. What was made in that video was not barbecue and no one here is going to stand quietly by when poor methods are espoused as the way. I don’t think anyone associated with that video ever saw barbecue made and maybe has never eaten any either. If so, they would not have stood quietly by when the Styrofoam rub was... I don’t know what that was... let’s go with rubbed... on the ribs. Nor would they have allowed anyone to continue to ruin baby back ribs in that way. It’s sad really and you ask that we stand quietly by. You and Her and everyone else in that video has insulted our intelligence and our craft. Don't come here when we point that out and correct the amateur mistakes that were made and ask us to stand quietly by. I do not know what you are smoking but it obviously is not your barbecue. Please... I have stood quietly by when they took the sugar out of my cola. I have stood quietly by when they took the butter off my popcorn. I have stood quietly by when they took the cream out of my cream. Not now... This company or person is speaking with authority on how to make Barbecue ribs. Virtually everyone in this forum has worked many years and many more weekends to perfect the methodology required to make the best, juiciest, most tender, barbecue for their friends and family. Many of them have turned into a competition, something more than a hobby, or maybe even their religion of sorts. So when this group is told what is tantamount to barbecue heresy, expecting the group to stand idly by is folly at best and nefarious at worst.
Barbecue is not what is being made in the video. We have eaten and made barbecue and that isn't the way barbecue is made. It just isn't. I am sorry if that offends your delicate sensibilities, but it isn't. One cannot make true barbecue by slathering anything on meat cooked on top of the stove. Is it steamed pork ribs with a sweet and tangy sauce... yep. That does not constitute BBQ and 2 + 3 does not = 6. All of the protestations to make those fallacies true will not change the facts of the matter and standing quietly by in the face of fallacies will only allow them to attain something semi-equivalent to truth. If you were hunting for a place where false statements could hang around and maybe ferment into something resembling the truth; this is not the place.
Now I must go... I have to start a real fire, in a smoker, add real wood, take the ribs that I lovingly prepared and rubbed last night, cook them low and slow for hours-- all day most likely, mop them hourly, and coax the sublime flavors and tender morsels to come out of a tough piece of meat. That’s barbecue... hang around... there will be pictures later. Share them with your friends. Perhaps they can make a better, more accurate, video in the future and the experts wont have to tell you, et al, how its really done, for days now, as if one was a teenager hell bent on doing it their way with their fingers in the their ears yelling LALALALALALALALALA in hopes that everyone will just leave them alone. ...or stand quietly by.
