Home Made McRib

[Mid-Lake Rock]

Saw this on Yahoo and found it interesting.

Todd Wilbur's Top Secret Recipes Version of McDonald's McRib Sandwich

Serves 4

1 pound uncooked pork sparerib meat, cut off the bones of 1 whole rack (you can use pork shoulder, as McDonald's does, instead)

3 tablespoons water

1 teaspoon white sugar

3/4 teaspoon salt

4 6-inch center-split white sandwich rolls

1 cup Hunt's Original Barbecue Sauce

8 dill pickle slices

1/2 cup thinly sliced onion

Combine pork, water, sugar, and salt in a food processor and process on high speed for 30 to 60 seconds or until it's a smooth pink paste.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or nonstick foil. Divide the pork puree into 4 equal portions. Using your fingers (wet them with water first), shape the portions of pork on the baking sheet into thin 6-1/2 inch by 3-inch rectangles, or about the size of your rolls. Cover them with another sheet of parchment paper or foil and freeze until pork is frozen solid, about 2 hours.

Split the rolls open and toast them. pour the barbecue sauce into a large shallow bowl.

Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat, and then cool the frozen pork patties for 3 to 4 minutes on each side, or until browned in spots. Cool the cooked patties for a few minutes, then dip each portion into the barbecue sauce to coat completely. Place each patty on one half of the roll, top with two pickle slices and about 2 tablespoons of sliced onions, and the other half of each roll.

Just before serving, heat each fully assembled sandwich in the microwave for about 15 seconds on high, to warm through.

[bobbymalone]

needs some sort of mold to form the meat into the McRib shape. The shape is key to recreating a McRib.

[reinhard1]

dont sound bad but i think there are better BBQ sauces than Hunts, just sayin. first thing i thought of as well was using pork butt. you can shape it with your hands. square pattie and make an indention with your finger spaced apart. good luck.

[OnAFly]

The gas station rib sandwiches are much better, IMO. McRib I don't know what Hunts BBQ sauce tastes like, but it has to better than the carp they put on the McRib.

[bobbymalone]

you can shape it with your hands. square pattie and make an indention with your finger spaced apart. good luck.

part of the allure is that it went from being "rib" "meat" from a "pig", into a machine, and then out the back end as a McRib.

You gotta have a machine stamping those things if you wanna do it right.

Same thing with hunt's bbq sauce. If you used proper sauce, then it wouldn't be like a McRib.

Personally I find them disgusting, yet I have to eat one or two a year. I see it up on that sign... "McRib is BACK!"... then next thing you know I've got cheap BBQ sauce on my shirt and I'm wallowing in shame.

[Mid-Lake Rock]

Same thing with hunt's bbq sauce. If you used proper sauce, then it wouldn't be like a McRib.

Personally I find them disgusting, yet I have to eat one or two a year. I see it up on that sign... "McRib is BACK!"... then next thing you know I've got cheap BBQ sauce on my shirt and I'm wallowing in shame.

I agree that it has to be Hunts. A high end BBQ sauce would ruin the McRib experience. I too find them disgusting (especially after reading about how the patty is made and how many ingredients are in the patty), however I end up buying one when they come out.

I did read that the homemade McRib is about half the calories of an actual McRib. Might head out to the garage tonight and make a McRib mold. Whip some up for the future Cooking Forum GTG.

[hockeybc69]

I am all over this one..... shamefully I can say that I like McRibs.... I have no clue why.... LOLLL

[FlagsDown]

Mmmmmm.....smooth pink pork paste

[delcecchi]

I swear I have seen those formed pork rib things in a grocery store. I know they sell them at the Olmsted Co. Fair (or they did a few years ago)

I typed in "formed pork rib patty" to a search and what should appear among others but

Item Description: Lean Pork Shoulder, Chopped and Blended with APP and Barbecue Seasonings. Formed into 4 Bone Rib Shape then Flame Broiled. After Broiling, Ribs are Coated with Sauce.

Product Details: Kings Command Foods Barbecue Pork Rib Patty, 2.65 Ounce -- 91 per case.

Manufacturer: Kings Command Foods

[Walleyehooker]

Some stores do sell these. I know Coburns does but never tried them. If I were going to make a rib sandwich it would have to be the real deal.

[klecker]

Made these today. Good thing I didnt make more other wise I would still be stuffing my face with them. I did use a better BBQ sauce however. Kids claimed they like them better than hamburgers.

Will make a good easy lunch up at the cabin this fall. Be a good ice fishing lunch as well.

[atvlaska]

over cook some ribs...to the point u can "pull the bone" thur the meat...then make your sammie....but then again, ain't no ribs i know of... need any bread to wash them down !