Customer Reviews

Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Nonstick Ultimate Rib Rack

5 star:		(24)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I really like the shape of this rack as it accommodates the larger pork spare ribs, which I really like. It provides plenty of space between the racks, assuring that smoke flavor will permeate and that you can easily mop the ribs if you so desire.
That said, cleanup is a bear!! The previous reviewer asserted that cleanup is easy....I beg to differ. The rack has a lot of wires and they are not at all easy to scrub. This may be advertised as 'Non-Stick' but several hours in a smoker will bake on a lot of 'gunk'. Even after soaking, the 'stuff' was still present. I finally gave up and sprayed it with oven cleaner. That was an improvement but I don't know how this will impact the rack over the long run. I am not sure that I will be using this accessory again.

I purchased this for my dad for Father's Day, I'm not sure why but he's suddenly been on a rib kick. He and my mom saw this contraption on some TV show and specifically requested it.

When it came in the mail (I'd ordered from Amazon as they had it at the lowest price at the time of my ordering) I discovered that the thing was HUGE. Now this wasn't a problem for my dad who has an enormous gas grill that puts most grills to shame, but it never would have fit on my dinky little Home Depot Discount Grill.

The wire was all coated with a non-stick layer which I knew right away would be a beast to clean - but it's what he wanted! So I assembled my pile of gifts, including a smoker box and some Charbroil Hickory Wood Chips, 2 Pound Bagand headed over to the parent's house. We cooked ribs that day, both the sauce covered and dry rub kind. The large size of the Rib Rack allowed us to fit enough on there to serve the entire family. Now of course we weren't allowed to know what all Dad did to them - top secret info, but they were fantastic!

The negative is that my sister and I had to do the cleanup and that thing is a real pain to clean. With Dad being a neat freak we had to scrub and scrub and scrub - finally we gave in and informed him that there would always be little dark spots on it similar to his rotissery basket.

Though I don't expect he'll use it often, I do know that he'll use it again the next time he decides to cook up a pile of ribs.

Steven Raichlen's three seminal grilling cookbooks (How to Grill, Barbecue Bible and BBQ USA) are, far and away, the dirtiest, rattiest, most falling-apart cookbooks on my shelf. I think about buying new copies, but then I'd have to spend hours copying all of my margin notes on the recipes.

Steve's line of grilling accessories show the same dedication to grilling and smoking incredibly great food that his cookbooks do. I have a few of his toys and goodies, and, far and away, the one I love most is this grilling rack. No compromises, no cut corners--this is the perfect tool for grilling ribs in the back yard on your classic Weber kettle grill. (The packaging doesn't advertise the fact, but the rack was plainly designed to fit exactly on a standard 22 inch Weber, leaving the side areas uncovered so you can add coal and wood to the fire.)

It works beautifully with baby backs, spareribs, and the larger beef ribs, doubling the typical capacity of the grill and exposing everything to that yummy smoke. My restults have been uniformly wonderful. Sturdy and durable, too. While the coating is advertised as "non-stick," I do find it best to wiggle the ribs around a couple of times in the first hour of cooking. After that, you're golden. As for cleanup, I get good results by running mine through the diswasher...although it should be no secret that anything used in smoke cooking is unlikely to be perfectly clean ever again.

This review is giving me an appetite...I wonder if I can stop by the supermarket for some beef ribs on the way home?

I've owned three other rib racks and this one is by FAR the best..perfectly sized for a 22" kettle grill...easy to clean so long as you don't let it sit forever...Basby Backs turned out great...can't wait to try some spare ribs and beef ribs...

I enjoyed the first one so much that it was a no-brainer when I needed a second rib rack. There's a lot to like here, from the handles on the end, to the easy clean-up. If you're in the market for rib racks, I highly recommend that you give these a try.

I used these to smoke 5 racks of Spare Ribs in my smoker. It is VERY sturdy, unlike the ones you get at Home Depot, and made it easy to move them around. Cleaning was a little challenging, but I just soaked them in the sink for a few hours and everything came right off. Lots of room and wide enough to fit most anykind of ribs.

This product really does the job it is intended for. It is well made and strong making it easy to move about even completely full. Semi easy cleanup, the products coating cleans easy but there are a lot of surface areas when you come down to it. It did give me much more room in my smoker for other items and that's what I was trying to accomplish.

I like the Steven Raichlen Rib rack very well. It will allow me to smoke 4 racks of pork spare ribs on my big green egg without any problem. The only complaint I have is I have used it only one time and some of the porcelain is coming off and that means rust. I guess 4 stars is pretty liberal for the rib rack because of the porcelain issue but it is the only one that i have tried that i can cook 4 whole racks of spare ribs and not have to cut some of the ribs in half

The Good:I have used this rack many times, It is well made and holds 4 racks of ribs.
The Bad: It is a royal pain to clean. I do not use it as much as I could because of the clean-up. The rack will stick to the meat (I only use a dry rub)in spots. After 6 hours of smoking you need to be careful with removing the ribs. With all this, I could not smoke more than 2 racks of ribs without this rack.

We were with a big group and needed to cook 5 racks of ribs. Even though this rack is made for four, it still worked perfectly. We rested one rack on the front and roated them through the rack.

I dreaded clean-up but it was a breeze! I didn't clean off all the sauce until the next morning and it all came off really easily.