My favorite is the Baby Back, they cost so much more, but so tasty. Usually I buy when on sale and stock up the freezer. Lee Lee is one of my favorites for any meats. One in Peoria and one in Chandler. If you've never been, GO. Amazing. Each isle is a different country's products. never seen a cleaner grocery in my life. Meat prices are awesome. if you like fish they have strange fish there also. Several times they had tanks of live baby octopus.
Cryo packs @ Lee Lees have two slabs each. Usually about $2.99 a pound. Spare Ribs to me have too many tendons or whatever that is. I cook to 200 degrees so they should be more tender. Love the price on Spare Ribs but taste and eating pleasure hands down goes to baby backs. (Please enlighten me to spare ribs so I can save my nickles)
I use Lee Lee's ground pork for home made sausage (soon to get a sausage stuffer and play with smoking that soon). Usually 99c a pound or less. Mix that with the ground chicken for fatties (oh yeah...love my fatties).
A couple times at Walmart I got the EXTRA MEATY Baby Backs. They were $4.50/lb but on sale for $3.00/lb. I wish I bought them out. 2.5 times the meat. very very good.
Where do you guys buy your ribs? Spare or baby backs?
When i cook, I usually use the mustard coating and my favorite rub is good old Lowery's Seasoned Salt. I smoke with Hickory or Oak. (get my wood @ Paul Bunyon). I don't usually sauce my ribs as it masks the good taste of the tender ribs. In ribs I want to taste the meat, not the sauce. Several times I brined my ribs but saw no difference at all.