I am giving this recipe five stars for the cooking technique only since I used bottle barbecue sauce. I have never made ribs before but a friend convinced me I needed a slow cooker so I had to find a recipe for my first time using it. I made these grill-free ribs for the family for Labor Day and everyone was very impressed! I used pork loin ribs, cut the rack in half and cooked them in the oven first in a disposable roasting pan, 15 minutes per side, after rubbing with salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder. Then I put them in the slow cooker and dumped two bottles of barbecue over the whole thing since I wasn't sure if one bottle would be enough liquid (they were kind of sitting one on top of the other). After four hours I flipped them to cook evenly and left them on low another 3 hours, then turned them off and left them in the slow cooker for a few hours longer. The next day I cut them apart for serving, drizzled them with the sauce they cooked in and put them in the oven on a foil-covered cookie sheet at 375 until the rest of the food was ready, about 30 minutes, and reheated the rest of the sauce on the stovetop (although next time I think I will only use one bottle and reserve the other bottle for serving, since all the fat cooked out and made the barbecue sauce very fatty). After they came out of the oven they had a nice char on them - you would never know they weren't cooked on a grill! Plus, I only had to clean the slow cooker.
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