Plate Short Ribs (most commonly called beef short ribs.)

Chuck Short Ribs

Back Ribs

Plate Short Ribs



Chuck Short Ribs



Back Ribs

I've disappointed myself several times buying and smoking the back ribs only to be left with a ton of bone and barely any meat.  I thought I was getting a good deal until they were finished and there was nothing to eat.

I would like to make the ribs that I have seen on here with the single bones and about 2 inches of meat on top.  Not sure if they are plate or chuck.

Pretty sure you want Plate Rib!  But you can get the same results you are looking for with Chuck, the Plate just has more marbeling and flavor then the Chuck, but what do I know, I want Back ribs!  All the others seem like little steaks on a bone, and that aint beef ribs to me!

Pretty sure you want Plate Rib!  But you can get the same results you are looking for with Chuck, the Plate just has more marbeling and flavor then the Chuck, but what do I know, I want Back ribs!  All the others seem like little steaks on a bone, and that aint beef ribs to me!

I got back ribs here a few times for $4 for a rack the size of what was in your picture.  Not $4/#.  $4 for the rack.

I like either the plate or chuck. The back ribs we have gotten never have any meat.

At my local Restaurant Depot/Chef Store the Short Ribs are a full plate short rib cut in 1/2. I prefer the whole short rib (dinosaur bone).

Since I have only ever made the Plate Ribs (bone in first time two nights ago), my vote was for the Plate Rib.  The vote might change down the line when I try others, but man those plate ribs are good!

Prefer plate, but can't them much. Can get prime Chuck whenever I want, and they are good. Back ribs I've got lucky with a bad butcher a few times where they left too much ribeye on there. They are great then, but that is kind of a unicorn scenario.

I remember years ago in Fresno.  A local supermarket called Save Mart would have back ribs at Memorial, 4th of July and labor Day usually.  They would sometime be as low a .98¢.  They would be so ridiculously "fingered", by the time they were cooked, they would be a bite her and a bite there, but at the price, you really did not care.

Ahhh, those were the day!