Which shelf do I put beef and pork ribs on

BurnBern · Post by **BurnBern** » July 18th, 2020, 3:41 am

I want to smoke some beef Jacobs ladder ribs today and also some pork ribs in my Mini GFeed smoker, I have 4 shelves I could use. Do I put the beef ribs above or below my pork ribs. Does it make a difference as to which shelf I put the pork or beef ribs on. Don’t want to cross contaminate the ribs.

hogaboomer · Post by **hogaboomer** » July 18th, 2020, 6:31 am

You're overthinking things. Basically, it comes down to this:

Do you want beef juice flavor on your pork, or pork juice flavor on your beef?

Dirtytires · Post by **Dirtytires** » July 18th, 2020, 11:10 am

Chicken can be a problem, and I don’t put it over anything for fear of cross contamination. Beef and pork, on the other hand, are not as prone to carrying Bacteria. I like my beef to taste like beef and pork to taste like pork so probably wouldn’t want drippings from either one dripping on the other so would do beef all on one side and pork on the other on as many shelves as needed.

If you HAD to do one over the other, I would put the pork on top. First, pork is a safer meat and second, beef ribs typically take a little longer to cook so being on the bottom gets them closer to the fire and allows them to cook a bit faster.

Really not a wrong answered this.....just my opinion.

mp4 · Post by **mp4** » July 18th, 2020, 8:45 pm

I always go pork on top, after all its just lean bacon and what doesn't taste better with bacon!

Ditto on putting chicken on the bottom.

BurnBern · Post by **BurnBern** » July 19th, 2020, 1:27 am

Thanks all! I did end up putting the pork on top [emoji16]

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Mo Smoke · Post by **Mo Smoke** » July 19th, 2020, 11:11 am

How many slabs of each type are you making ? If possible stack beef over beef and pork over pork. Half on one side of the cooker and half on the other side. Problem is they will cook at different speeds since the top racks are usually hotter. Although it may be a little diff on a Gfeed since I’ve never used one. If that’s the case you just gotta rotate top to bottom to get them done around the same time. If you’re more concerned with keeping the same meat on the same rack then I say beef on top. I would rather have beef juice on the pork since some folks don’t eat pork.

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Brisket Envy · Post by **Brisket Envy** » August 6th, 2020, 10:39 pm

hogaboomer wrote: ↑
July 18th, 2020, 6:31 am
You're overthinking things. Basically, it comes down to this:

Do you want beef juice flavor on your pork, or pork juice flavor on your beef?

Some people don’t eat pork, so if I were having guests, I’d make sure no pork dripped on the beef, but other than that, I don’t think I’d worry.

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