Beef back ribs are often on sale at Safeway. I’ve never gotten them before because they are sold “previously frozen” (though not actually defrosted), and I tend to stay away from frozen beef, as freezing interferes with texture. But I finally decided to give them a try. I cooked them by separating them into chunks of 2-3 ribs, rubbing them with a mixture of garlic & onion powder, salt and pepper and baking them, covered with foil, in a 375F oven for 2 hours. I then uncovered them, basted them with BBQ sauce, and meant to cook them for another hour. Well, the BBQ sauce was already burning after I checked on them 1/2 hour into the cooking so I took them out.
The ribs tested fine (despite the BBQ sauce burning), and they were tender enough (not overly so), but there was too little meat and too much fat in the huge bones. Even at $1.70 lb, it wasn’t probably a great deal given how much actual food you got out of them. I don’t think I’d buy them again.
