Took me 5 months to figure out why my ribs were tough, and it was the dumbest thing
I was chasing everything, temps, wrap timing, rub, all of it, when the real issue was my $30 Walmart thermometer reading 25 degrees high. Finally checked it in boiling water last month and it read 237 instead of 212. Switched to a $12 dial thermometer I found at a hardware store in Modesto, and my last two racks came out perfect. Anyone else get burned by a cheap thermo before they learned to calibrate?