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BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast

with Roasted Garlic Herb Butter

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A BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast is a pretty expensive cut of meat. It's also not very common to find it at your local grocery store except during certain holiday seasons, like Christmas. I had never cooked one on my smoker before, so when I saw that my local grocer was having a special on rib roasts, and because I had just gotten my new BBQ Guru DigiQ DX2, we had a perfect storm!

BBQ Beeft Standing Rib Roast I've read that marinating this cut of beef does nothing more than mask the natural beef flavor, so I decided to keep it simple and stick to salt and pepper as a seasoning. Yep, that pretty much did the trick and I'm sticking with it in the future.

The other option you may want to consider is one I pulled from Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book. It was suggested to insert a Roasted Garlic Herb Butter (you make it of course) into slits in the top of the BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast. I'm going to include that here, even though I didn't do it this go around. I'll definitely be prepared to try that next time.

Roasted Garlic Herb Butter Ingredients

4 Garlic Cloves
1/4 teaspoon Dried Thyme
1/4 teaspoon Dried Rosemary
1/4 teaspoon Dride Oregano
1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/4 cup softened butter

Take a doubled square of aluminum foil and place the garlic, thyme, rosemary and oregano on it. Take the olive oil and drizzle it over these ingredients. Wrap the foil up tight and cook it over indirect heat (250 F) for 45 minutes.

BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast after the cut Let it cool for a few minutes after removing from the grill and then squeeze the garlic cloves from the husks into a small bowl. Mash the garlic and herbs together until you form a paste, and then mix in the softened butter.

Take some plastic wrap and soon the mixture onto it and then roll it into a log and refrigerate for about 30 minutes until firm. Once that's done, cut small slits into the top of your BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast about every 3/4 of an inch and insert small pats of the garlic butter into each slit.

Seasoning the BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast

Whether you use the Roasted Garlic Herb Butter or not, you will want to mildly season the beef before putting into the smoker. For a 2-3 bone (5 lb) rib roast, you'll need

1-1/2 tablespoons of Kosher Salt
1-1/2 teaspoons of black pepper

Then spread it around the way you like on your beef!

Cooking the Standing Rib Roast

BBQ Beef Standing Rib Roast You want to cook this bone side down at 250 F for about 2-3 hours. Of course, it all depends how you like your beef. Here are some guidelines to help you

120-125 F - Rare
130-135 F - Medium Rare (the way I like it)
140-145 F - Medium
There is no well done for red meat eaters!

Once it's done, let it rest under foil for about 20-30 minutes before slicing between each bone. I like grilled steaks. But the taste you'll get from this is hard to beat.