The Best Rub for Pork Ribs 

For those who want a breakdown: Salt & Pepper (8:48): 8 / 9.5 - avg: 8.75 Oakridge Dominator Sweet Rub (9:58): 6 / 8.2 - avg: 7.1 Simply Marvelous Genie's Trinity (11:29): 9 / 8.7 - avg: 8.85 Pitts & Spits Ultimate (12:33): 9 / 8.9 - avg: 8.95 Suckle Busters Hog Waller (13:27): 9.5 / 9 - avg: 9.25 Meat Church Holy VooDoo (14:14): 9.5 / 9.2 - avg: 9.35 Kosmos Q Honey Chipotle Killer Bee (15:05): 6.5 / 6.5 - avg: 6.5 Code 3 Spices Backdraft (15:39): 7 / 7.3 - avg: 7.15 Caribeque Pork (16:39): 8 / 8.2 - avg: 8.1 Ranking based on averages: Meat Church Holy VooDoo: 9.35 Suckle Busters Hog Waller: 9.25 Pitts & Spits Ultimate: 8.95 Simply Marvelous Genie's Trinity: 8.85 Salt & Pepper: 8.75 Caribeque Pork Rub: 8.1 Oakridge Dominator Sweet Rub: 7.1 Code 3 Spices Backdraft Rub: 7.15 Kosmos Q Honey Chipotle Killer Bee: 6.5

This is awesome! Thank you! I have a Traeger smoker and use the methods that Matt at Meat Church preaches. Big fan of you guys and happy to have found you. Your rig looks awesome.

Outstanding review! You guys make great videos! I loved the optional choices you chose to review! Thanks!!

Awesome video. I definitely love playing around with different rubs.

Thanks for the video Jeremy...gonna grab some Meat Church VooDoo this morning for the three racks going on my smoker today....I agree with you on the salt/pepper ribs

I have all the Kosmos seasonings and was very surprised it scored so low. I absolutely love everything Kosmos

this was awesome, extremely informative, concise, and fun.

Great video, as I learned a lot! Questions - How much S&P do you apply for seasoning? Coarse S&P?

I just bought the Holy Voodoo and Killer Hogs Hot BBQ, excited to try the both. Nice video.

Meat church is the way to go, they are spot on with their rubs

Thank you for making this video! I've been struggling trying to find a sugar free rub that will still taste great and seeing that salt and pepper still makes some great ribs makes my day!

Thanks for a great video and some useful rub suggestions. I've used several different rubs, but I plan to give simple salt and pepper (or maybe salt-pepper-garlic) a try. Some of my favorite BBQ restaurant ribs have a great smoke flavor, and I think I've been missing that.

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Great job Jeremy, enjoyed the BBQ RUBS and both you guys opinions on the different types and flavors. It’s okay to have different opinions on taste. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos. Fred.

Do one of these for Tri-tip rubs! Fun to watch, thanks!

Please make an episode 2, comparing the best sauces. 😊

I'm a sucklebusters man all day. Glad you enjoyed that Hog Waller! Its one of my go to's, along with their SPG. Excited to try a couple of those others once I run out of HW.

Hey Jeremy! Great video! What was the ratio of the salt and pepper for your rib rub? Thanks and keep up the great videos!

Awesome video! I will be buying the holy voodoo based on your recommendation, I am new to owning a smoker and curious what you are spraying on ribs before foil. Thank you.

I really enjoyed the process, visual scoring of each and the Honesty!!! Great job!!! Have you guys did other 🍖 the same? I just hit the bell for future videos!!

This is awesome 👏🏼 I guess it all depends on ones preference, KILLER HOGS THE BBQ RUB is my number 1

Jeremy, thanks for this video!! Purchased the Suckle Busters & Holy Voodoo rubs & used your lard & butcher idea on some spare ribs trimed to St Louis style ribs. OMG Best ribs I've ever eaten & certainly best I've ever made (only 2nd time smoking ribs) Thanks for your teaching videos! Smoked a pork butt last week it was good too. Spilled a bunch of juice onto my shoe pulling it off my Oklahoma Joe's Highland. Dog got some good scraps. Thanks!!! From Lawson, Mo

Excellent video. I'm a SPG guy. I have a whole tub full of rubs and I still find myself enjoying dalmatian or SPG the most. Lately I have found that using S&P or SPG as main base, and then finishing with a rub as just an accent turns out awesome results. My ratio is about 75% S&P or SPG to 25% rub.

Awesome video, love honest reviews like this.

Next time you should do the same but in a blind test setting... Makes it way more interesting(And a cleaner test). Awesome video! Thanks for the info👍🏽

Jeremy you give the best barbecue advice in video keep it up

Love this type of video great job man please do more of these kind with different meats Great job man

Great review and not surprised to see Hog Waller rank so high. Great rub!

@madscientistBBQ One thing I wanted to mention the Oakridge Dominator Sweet Rub you said felt muted out. I've found the reason for this was it was lacking salt, once I added some additional salt the flavour profile is insane! Honestly my fav sweet rub. I have the Holy Voodoo and is a great well balanced savoury rub for dry ribs. Thanks for the review this was really helpful 👊

When you cook something often for a very long time the beauty of well executed simple versions of those dishes begins to trump all the bells and whistles sometimes added onto those same dishes. I am no chef, but have been cooking for 30 years. Born and raised on the Cajun Prairie I mainly cook braised meats and seafood in sauces that are served over rice. I have taught many people how to cook Cajun food. The process is more important than the spices. That is the real secrete to great food.

Song kicked in while seasoning the ribs and I had to check to see what channel I was watching.

Holy Voodoo and Hog Waller are my absolute favourite. We won some competition with the SB.

I'm a truck driver from Texas and have eaten ribs from many different BBQ joints across the USA.the best ribs I've had was from a little Jamaican place in Georgia they were the best flavored ribs that I've had

Happy Holla BBQ Seasoning is really good as well, I used it the last time I smoked some ribs and they were fantastic! Meat Church Holy Voodoo is another good one!

Classic I just bought a bottle of holy voodoo. Great video 👍

Killer hogs should of been up there for sure

made my own the other day, Alaska Sitka smoked salt, Truffle Salt, Garlic Powder, Cheyenne pepper, black pepper. Amazing.

Great review! Didn't realize that rubs with more ingredients block smoke absorption, but that makes sense. I like a deeper smoke flavor as well, so I'm going to cut a rack of ribs in half and do 1/2 S&P and 1/2 of that VooDoo rub.

That was awesome J! I make my own secret rub but have wanted 2 know what a few of these popular rubs tasted like & some that I would not have given a chance to. Keep on with these great videos brudda! 💥👊😎

I was here just for the voodoo rub review 💪🏽 been using it over a year!!

i could listen to that song all day

Awesome video. I will have to visit you guys soon.

Would love to see a cook off of the available Texas bbq joint rubs. Salt Lick has been my favorite rib rub. Blacks has been my favorite beef rub. Rudy’s/salt lick tied on poultry.

I hope you guys do one on the best brisket rub.

I’ve been using kosmos chipotle killer bee on pork for a while. It is excellent!

A nice cold ipa and some bbq is the way to go 🍺

also major kudos to your video editor, superb job

Great vid. Surprised no ones asking for Zero to Hero. I’ve tried a ton of rubs but still go back to that. Rib tickler is pretty great on ribs as well. Thanks for putting in the work!

Great video and test. I’m a big fan of Meat Church and glad Matt Pittman’s product shined through.

I know this was a test of off the shelf rubs but I stumbled on an amazing rub ingredient some years back. You know that powder pack of apple cider you find around Christmas time? It is available year round in the same place you find instant hot chocolate in the store. Just tear open the packet and add hot water, poof apple cider. Well, I use the powder in my rub with some granulated garlic and onion, salt and pepper. Whatever else you like in a pork rub. I generally just sub the brown sugar with the apple cider powder. I figure we are going to spray it with apple cider vinegar and/or apple juice. Add it to the rub and it sticks.

Great feedback. What kind of wood was used?

Caribeque is my favorite!!!!

Those guys are good, and the ribs look absolutely fantastic 😊😊😊

Thanks gents - BBQ-on!!

It never occured to me to even try just salt and pepper on pork ribs. Tried that today (with garlic powder and onion powder). It turned out great (well I overcooked them, but overcooked ribs are still good ribs). I think this is how I might be doing it from now on.

blues hog is definitely my go to

I've heard you say s&p is your favorite. Now that I've done that and other seasoning, I see where you are coming from.

yes woooooo bring it on bro...what an apron brother

loving the goatee mate 👍

I got a bottle of rub called Rib Ninja a few days ago and made ribs with it yesterday I Really like it. kinda has a spice to it that comes through afterwards.

Good video Jeremy ... I purchased sum MEAT CHURCH HOLY VOODOO SEASONING afew wks ago...Is it primarily a pork r beef rub?? Could u do another rib comparison with using sum MEAT CHURCH DEEZ NUTS SEASONING & HONEY HOG SEASONING, PLOWBOYS YARDBIRD SEASONING, JP BBQ - JP LICIOUS RIB RUB, any seasoning from HEATH RILES BBQ ,& VICTORY LANE BBQ??

The Kosmos rub used I usually use as another layer but not solo or a base layer. If you like just S&P, you should give the Kosmo's Q SPG a run on ribs. Its Salt, Pepper, Garlic and some MSG. And its probably my favorite rub for ribs or anything right now.

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Please do prime rib video! Your videos are awesome!!

5:29 *Gold. Pure Gold.*

“One bite everybody knows the rules.” I see you

I would have preferred blind taste testing.

Great video!!! I’ve been looking at a few of those spices... HOLY VOODOO! #meatchurch

Oh damn...I guess I'm going to have to try S&P...that's almost all I've done for beef (+garlic) but honestly never thought to do it for pork ribs.

Awesome video!!!

Meat Church Holy BBQ is AMAZING!

Great video and since the local place sells the Meat Church I am def going to try that. Nobody here likes anything hot/spicy so likely going to stick to my Big Poppa sweet money rub though with the finishing dust. That stuff at the end adds that little bit of taste that is just wow for me.

Nice Gents!!! 👍👊

What wood are u smoking with ?? I'm from Canada and I wanna get a stick wood burning smoker . I'm just not sure which hardwood to use

Great!!! Thanks

I haven't noticed in any of your videos you scoring the membrane. Is there a reason vs taking it off?

Hey where do you get your Colton gloves you wear under the nitrile?

was waiting for cooking with ry to pop out of no where

Solid video and honest review. My only suggestion would be to try Code3Spices Sweet/Zesty 5-0 Rub, that is their competition pork rub and designed for pork. The Backdraft is a great rub but more as a layering rub or finishing rub rather than a stand alone. Keep up the great work

None of these commercial rubs can compare to ones with freshly ground homemade spices. Will never forget the first time I made Chili with actual home-toasted and ground Chiles. Makes an incredible difference.

Add Buc-ees BBQ sauce to that Honey Chipotle Rub and that's a gamechanger

What did you spray on the ribs before your wrapped them?

What about eating or drinking a palate cleanser between each sample? That way each rub doesn't affect the next with lingering flavors.

Yummy BBQ!

Where did you get the aerosol duck fat? And what you use it for?

Should of thrown some killer hogs in there!

Killer Hogs, slapp yo daddy, victory Lane , Heath Rub. And I've heard Holy Voodoo. Hi from cal city ca.

Fun video filled with rib over eating..what else could we ask for😂 I do have a question regarding the meat prep, why score instead of remove the silver skin?

So I like sweet rub which combo would you recommend

For the Salt & Pepper rub, is it just any kind of S&P or a specific style / grind? What is ideal ratio of Salt to Pepper? Would this same S&P only rub work well for pork shoulder?

i lived in vero beach florida for 30 years, publix supermarket had a dry rub from emeril lagassi. called emerils rib rub, it was the most awesome rub i have found. moved to south georgia and cant get it anywhere. BUMMER.

This is why we use S&P here in Texas, the true flavors of the meat and smoke shine through.

Spanglish Asadero al pastor rub then glazed with Tacticalories pineapple margarita salsa. Straight fire!

I have always liked Texasbbqrubs out of Richmond TX.

How can you hate on the Kosmo Q love all his rubs!!!!

this just looks like a fun day to me.

Kosmo's rubs are the best!!

Would love to see more of these videos testing other rubs with a final showdown video of the top rubs tested . Try some Killer Hogs The bbq rub And Chupacabra rub. Maybe add a third judge and make it a blind test to eliminate any preconceived notions.

Thank you for all your great bbq videos! I notice in various videos that you always have a can of duck fat. Is duck fat your go to choice (base) for rub adhering to the pork ribs and most meats if applying rubs, so you are not doing the normal e.g. mustard etc, etc ? Best, Matt

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