I Recreated the Legendary LeRoy & Lewis Bacon Ribs at Home (Made Simple!)
The legendary LeRoy & Lewis Bacon Ribs: Pork meets bacon in one smokey, outrageous bite. But every ‘easy’ at-home recipe I tried was a disaster. So I rebuilt the process from scratch. 🙏 to Dalstrong for sponsoring today’s video! Get 10% off your order here— (no code needed)
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Chapters
00:00 – Bacon without the problems
01:40 – Simple & Effective Bacon Cure That Actually Works
05:14 – Bacon too salty? Don’t skip this step
09:12 – Dalstrong Ad
10:07 – 4 Step Smoke Game plan (big green egg secrets for better smoke)
17:15 – Finishes Touches With BIG Result
23:29 – How To Make Bar-A-BBQ rib glaze
24:52 – Results & Taste Test
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Great Stuff! Thank You! This is an absolutely perfect recipe for my lil Cookshack…And I have a spare, St Louis Spares rack in the freezer that will be getting cured in the new year…The fridge is full of Marmalade Ham and Black Treacle Bacon.
A good few years back now another BBQ Guy over here in the UK and I were unbeknown to each other curing, cold smoking and hot smoking some Bacon Burnt Ends, literally down to the day!!!
You have great timing on the release of this video. I just rinsed the brine off 2 racks of ribs with the belly on. Offset smoke tomorrow for first stage. Will repeat your rub & glaze. Can’t wait to try the results !!
I started rewatching you, but I am still don't like that you made fun of Chud's BBQ for having his dog as the official taste test at the end of his videos. You never mentioned the channel, but we all knew who you were talking about. You realize Bradley Robinson is very close to Leroy & Lewis and worked for them for many years? I am just saying, I think you owe him an apology. Your statement back then put your channel from a rising B tier to a D+ tier for me. I keep trying to overlook how your channel is an advertisement for the Green Big egg.
You said to add tallow to the wrap but it looked like you added ghee. Just wanted to…clarify on the butter! Sorry for the ghee joke
Thank you for the video but people need to know that this recipe should absolutely NOT just be duplicated or copied using the same amounts of curing salt and salt that you used in your recipe. When doing a wet equilibrium cure, the weight of the meat and the water combined (minus the bone weight) need to be taken into consideration to add the correct amounts of curing salt and regular salt. Curing salt should be added at a very specific percentage of that weight, 0.25%, and should never just be estimated. It is extremely toxic and dangerous to consume too much of this. If you add too little, you run the risk of bacteria getting out of hand and making you sick when you eat the meat. Adding regular salt should also be done as a percentage of total weight, usually 1.85% to 2.25%. Adding too little again adds the risk of spoilage from bacteria and adding too much will give you an unpalatable ending product, i.e., way too salty. An accurate scale is a must have tool when you are curing meat.
James, those ribs look amazing!!
You mentioned that you still need the water bath after an equilibrium cure . . . but you didn't do an equilibrium cure. An equilibrium cure is when you just do a dry rub with all of your salt and seasonings, then let the meat cure. There is no extra liquid involved, and yes you can dial in your exact salinity.
Dude. Those looked SO GOOD! Calling the butcher now!
I must have missed something…. am I seeing GREEN all over your backyard??! Not seeing Red, or a combination!
James, those looks absolutely fantastic. Seems like a way to sneak bbq into your breakfast. Hmmm….now I wanna know what a bbq breakfast feast would look like.
Beef >> pork >> chicken
Pork can't be the best bite in bbq. Sorry to disagree there
Amazing video. I hope to do this successfully one day. Kudos for execution.
Saw another youtuber do the belly ribs and they did it 2 ways…Whole slab and cut individual ribs with another rack…By all accounts from those present the individual ribs cook was the way to go…
James the secret is layers of flavor to build that one outstanding bite. I try this again because the first time was way too salty. I do those extra water baths and see what happens.
Production may be easier with a green screen, it's not visually pleasant
Really great video. I'd skip the AI.
Other than that, IMO you've got good pace with enough detail/explanation w/o droning.
I've heard Turbinado (raw) sugar doesn't burn..can it be ground into a powder and used like brown sugar or is it pretty much a non factor..?
😀 That looks so delicious! Ummm.. I think you mean FAMOUS, not INFAMOUS. Your neighbors must love all the BBQ smells from your yard! I know I sure would.
appreciate the video , but cure recipe should be based on weight , someone could take that recipe and actually be adding way too much cure salt to their meat which could be dangerous , maybe i missed if you mentioned that
How did you source the rib with the belly still on? It's not a normal cut that you can just easily get and I believe Leroy and Lewis does their own butchery so that's how they get it
Best bite of BBQ, huh? I believe you but how many bites can one eat? I guess I got to make some and find out. LOL
Thank you so much for making this video I'm really curious about their bacon ribs!
Great topic. Haven’t tried bacon ribs yet. Last nights supper menu for a bunch of guests was beef chuck Dino ribs & St Louie pork ribs. Very hard to beat the beef ribs. James you have definitely taking my smoking BBQ to levels that I didn’t think was possible. I am grateful and will give the pork ribs a try. Let’s go Buffalo. See you at the JETS JETS JETS game?
great video as usual, the only thing i want to know is how did you source the meat? i can get spare ribs and i can get pork belly.. but the pork belly on the bone? I would love to know where we could get that cut..
Did you have the skin on or removed from the belly
Your tutorials are just top notch. Excellent lesson. These look amazing, but these also seem like such a long process to cook!
This is gonna happen in my backyard!!!…. 😋 😊
How ironic that it gets posted 2 minutes after I took out some baconribs/porkbellyribs to make tomorrow (out of the freezer)