I use apple juice and crab boil, garlic and ginger slices. I arrange the ribs in a pan and then pour the seasoned apple juice (or wine, beer etc.) over them seal the pan with foil and cook in the oven until tender. Then I remove them, sauce them and cook in the oven until really tender. If I want to grill them I take them out of the oven and smoke them for an hour or two and then sauce them. This really flavors the meat and they have a better texture then when they are just boiled.

I just set the oven to broil for the last few minutes. Then headed to the Cowboy game at a friends. They look awesome right now. Will let you know if everyone enjoyed!

Absolutely do the "Traditional black folk" method used here and it is delicious!!!! DO NOT FALL FOR THE PPL SAYING BOILING IS BAD - season your water or use a broth it is packed with flavor.

This is exactly how I started doing ribs years ago. We used to use "Bulls-eye BBQ" but have been using Sweet Baby Ray's lately. Instead of just water, try beer with a little cayenne pepper when boiling.Then follow the rest of the recipe. The heat isn't noticeable until about your 3rd or 4th rib!

I omit the boiling! Season and foil them tight. Stick in oven 3 hours and then put Baby Rays, put them on the grill and they are soo tender. Saves a lot of time.

These ribs are the bones from boneless pork chops. Boil them for 45 minutes would you boil pork chops into cooked stew meat then bake them to death at 250°F for 3 hours just add onion carrots celery and potatoes to the pot with with the ribs and have baby spare rib stew as the pork juices are in the hot water. What were you drinking when you came up with this recipe. Happy "BOILING"

Our family loves this recipe! We make it often. Other than seasoning the ribs before I put the BBQ sauce on them I follow the directions. When I make them for guests they always want the recipe.

These ribs are excellent! Better than most restaurants. Awesome!

Any time you boil the ribs you boil out the flavor, put them in a pan, cover with BBQ sauce and a little water then bake 3 hrs at 350°F and you will be good to go!

I will never try a different recipe. This one is the BEST!!!! I have tried to make fall off the bone ribs every way imaginable. Slow and low has never produced fall off the bone ribs for me no matter what recipes I have tried. I liked that boiling the ribs got rid of the fat and was just left with juicy tender meat. After reading all of the reviews, this is what I did.
Day 1. Season the ribs with the spices you like, cover and chill over night.
Day 2. Place the ribs in a big pot, pour in 2 cans of beer, a couple heaping
tbs. of minced garlic, 1 onion quartered and a few good dashes of
liquid smoke. Fill with water to cover the ribs. Boil for 45 minutes
with the lid mostly on but not completely. Remove ribs from water and
place in baking dish and smother with BBQ sauce. Cover with foil and
refrigerate over night.
Day 3. Pull ribs from refrigerator about an hour before baking and bake and
broil as per the recipie.

My husband said it was the BEST ribs I had ever made. He always complained about the ribs being too fatty and not the most tender.

I love to cook & do pretty well but am a disaster at grilling. Also happen to love ribs. Found this recipe several years ago & is now my go to 4th of July recipe; my family & friends love it. Not going to fight w/ the grillers... to each his/her own. TY for this wonderful recipe... would give more than 5 stars if could.

This recipe STILL gets rave reviews from any and all of my friends and family who tries it! Most want the recipe. Once, I boiled the ribs in a (lid OFF) pressure canner for 45 minutes and they came out a little too lean, resulting in too dry.I believe this is because the thick aluminum canner gets WAY Hot and stays hot during a hard boil that it creates. So now when I use the pressure canner (because it's BIG and holds a lot!) I bring it to a boil and then do a low boil in it for about 35 minutes. Then I proceed as to the recipe. I just LOVE this recipe and I also would never use any BBQ sauce except Sweet Baby Ray's Original! Thank you for this recipe!!

I will tell you that there is NO boiling of pork without losing flavor. It is simply a fact. If you don't care about that and only want the super soft pork, then go for it. Slow baking in the oven at about 250°F over several hours gives your the same super tender pork AND preserves the flavor. Your choice.