Description
These are beef short ribs also known as Jacob’s ladder from North Yorkshire native breed cattle.
Short ribs are cut from the ribs just above the brisket. This is half of a full Jacobs Ladder, it has a taper from one end to the other, so beware that there will naturally be more meat on one end. They make a great cut for slow cooking by smoking or braising. Cooked on the BBQ or in the oven, the meat will fall away from the bone and stay succulent due to the good fat content.
Beef short ribs are packed with flavour much of which comes from the high fat content and connective tissue. Being from a hard working part of the animal makes them naturally very tough. If you’re prepared to be patient though, you can make them perfectly tender with the meat falling from the bone.
To reach perfection, short ribs should be cooked low and slow. The idea is to break down all the fat and connective tissue, basting the meat with flavour as they cook. What is undesirable and chewy will eventually become succulent and gelatinous and add to the beefy flavour. The connective tissue in the muscles will start to break down at around 75℃ and the short ribs will need taking up to as much as 95℃ to be finished.
Native breed short ribs are well suited to low and slow cooking due to the high fat content and the more developed flavour that comes with age.
If you buy a rack of ribs, you might want to cut them into blocks of two ribs. This will reduce the amount of time to reach the right temperature and will expose more of the meat.
Cooking Guides
How to Cook Beef Short Ribs – A guide to cooking short ribs either on your BBQ or in the oven.

Peter Cattell (verified owner) –
Simon (verified owner) –
First of all the ribs themselves are only 5-6cm long which is very weird. However, they do have a lot of meat on them and are very thick. Not quite sure how I’ll be cooking this now as i could imagine the meat shrivelling up quite a bit..
Joe Rainert (verified owner) –
Pork belly was uniform thickness cut from the center with really good fat cover and delicious amount of great tasting pork.
Cooked Chinese style till crispy …superb.
Short ribs were really good and cooked in the Kamado for 5hours – already ordered my next delivery for my youngest Daughter’s birthday next week.
Great work Ian
Best
Joe
Rod Marsh (verified owner) –
Moist
John Willis (verified owner) –
Cooked slowly in my sous vide with finely diced veg’ and a little Demi.
What a fantastic result. Can’t match this for melt in the mouth flavour. 10/10
Melanie Berry (verified owner) –
Delivered on the nominated day and packed well. The ribs were very meaty and lovely quality, very tasty! I would definitely buy them again and recommend to friends and family.
Anthea Stephenson (verified owner) –
Cooked for my Dad who had never had beef ribs before, and he absolutely loved them. Overall impressed by the quality and butchery of all the joints I ordered. Have recommended around, and this will now become my regular go-to for meat.
Kevin Griffiths (verified owner) –
Tasty, filling, everything I could want! Just wish I could afford more !
Alun Riley (verified owner) –
Colin Sanford (verified owner) –
These were absolutely lovely smoked these in my kamado joe smoker for 12 hours meat just fell off the bone
Miles Rushby (verified owner) –
Nicola Thompson (verified owner) –
steven bristow (verified owner) –
Came with a nice 2mm of fat that just fell away.
Packaged excellently, tasted better!
Gary Watts (verified owner) –
Havent tried yet however this a lot of meat on the rip, these will need cooking “low N slow” for the best results.
These ripps will easily feed 4 people maybe even five, looking forward to trying them. Tobe continued……..
Leanne Glossop (verified owner) –