Serving Pork Spare Ribs

Making a meal of pork spare ribs can sometimes be tricky, not because pork spare ribs are difficult to prepare, but because it can be difficult to gauge how much meat to buy. It’s hard to tell just by looking at pork spare ribs how many people they will feed. Buying pork spare ribs can also be misleading, as what look like larger pork spare ribs in the grocer’s meat department typically are just pork spare ribs with larger bones, meaning that you’re paying to purchase more bone than meat.

A good guide can be to count the actual number of pork sparer ribs in a package and compare that number to the number of people you need to feed. If you’re feeding five people you want ten pork spare ribs. Ten people equals twenty pork spare ribs and so on.

Of course once you’ve decided to serve pork spare ribs and figured out how many you will need, the next step is to figure out how to prepare the pork spare ribs. There are many ways to fix pork spare ribs and they range in their influences from cuisines of multiple cultures. Italian style pork spare ribs are popular, as are Spanish pork spare ribs and even Asian pork spare rib recipes exist, such as Char Siu from China.

Whichever style you decide upon you will be able to find a host of pork spare ribs recipes on the internet or in any of a number of cookbooks. Most pork spare rib recipes will use barbeque sauce or teriyaki sauce or some such flavor enhancer.

Important when serving any meat products, but especially vital with pork dishes including pork spare ribs, is careful observation of cooking times. Pork spare ribs that have been undercooked can make you very ill, so it is vital to make sure you follow cooking instructions explicitly when working with pork spare ribs.

A good way to be sure that you have cooked your pork spare ribs as fully as possible is to use a meat thermometer. If you do not have or do not wish to buy one of these, however, you’ll just want to observe cooking times very carefully.

Char Siu (Chinese Smoked Spare Ribs)

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