Slow Cooker Ribs

Why You’ll Love These Slow Cooker Barbecue Ribs

When you need a show stopping dinner recipe that everyone raves about, these Slow Cooker Ribs are the answer. Whether you’re making these BBQ ribs for a party, barbecue, holiday or just for a dinner night at home, you can’t beat this ribs recipe.

• Incredibly Easy To Make: Ribs don’t have to be difficult or take all day in a smoker. Sure those are delicious but sometimes you need an easy recipe to get the job done and this is it.
• A Dinner For Any Occasion: These ribs are perfect for game days, holidays, parties or just a dinner at home with the family. Leftovers are just as good!
• It’s All About The Dry Rub: Our All Purpose Seasoning is the star here, we make it in giant batches because we use it on everything.

This slow cooker rib recipe couldn’t be easier! Here’s step by step photos with instructions. For the complete recipe, head down to the recipe card at the end of the post.

• Season: We like removing the silver skin from the back of the ribs (see the recipe card notes) before adding the seasoning. Use your hands to run the seasoning in on both sides of the ribs. Cut the slabs of ribs in half so that they fit into your slow cooker.

• Cook: Set your slow cooker on high for 4 hours or on low for 8 hours. The ribs are done when they are fork tender, but the racks of ribs should still stay intact when you remove them from the slow cooker.

There’s a couple of different ways to serve these barbecue ribs once they’re done. You can slice them into individual ribs like you see in the photo below. If the ribs are overcooked, this might be tough to do but a sharp knife helps a lot.

Or you can cut the ribs into sections of 3–4 ribs each. This is a good way to do it for parties or for big groups, everyone can grab a section instead of going back for more ribs.

Don’t forget to spoon some of the sauce from the slow cooker on top of the ribs before serving!

There’s a fine line between melt in your mouth, fall-off the bone ribs and ribs that just fall apart. You want to be able to pick up your ribs and eat them. We want tender, perfectly cooked slow cooker ribs that stay on the bone.

1. Make sure to get the right type of ribs: As we suggested, baby back ribs are perfect for this rib recipe.
2. Check the ribs with with a fork: When it gets close to the end of the cooking time, as all slow cookers will cook at different rates.
3. Best to cook on high or low? Low and slow usually produces the most tender meat, so if you have time I usually go with that option. However, we have also cooked these ribs on high and I can promise you, they’re still going to be super tender and delicious.