{"id":1567,"date":"2025-06-18T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribsaus.p11.sol1.net\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T03:22:54","slug":"our-tips-for-eating-sticky-bbq-ribs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/news\/our-tips-for-eating-sticky-bbq-ribs\/","title":{"rendered":"Our top 7 tips for eating sticky BBQ ribs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If you order a plate of juicy, tender, sticky, hot, crispy, flavourful BBQ ribs, and somehow end up with perfectly clean fingers \u2013 you\u2019re either a BBQ pro or a human specimen requiring serious scientific study.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Getting sticky is just part of the experience. The BBQ ribs at Ribs & Burgers are the real deal, and they\u2019re certainly not the kind of cutesy finger food you\u2019ll find influencers nibbling tidily. They\u2019re the kind of meal you order when you\u2019re serious about flavours not photos, and whether you\u2019re after a Pork Spare Ribs, a Premium Pork Baby Back, the classic Beef Ribs or the luscious Lamb Ribs, you can expect things to get deliciously messy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Here are our tips for how to eat ribs like a pro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Five-Star: Use napkins\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>

Napkins are your greatest ally when facing down a plate filled with meaty, sticky ribs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

One gets tucked into your shirt as a bib. One goes in each hand so you can pick up the ribs with your fingers without getting the stickiness all over yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And here\u2019s the real pro move: One must be wetted and left ready to clean off your fingers and wipe down your face once you\u2019re finished the meal. Don\u2019t tell the influencers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Silver Service: Bring a friend\u00a0that lost a bet<\/b><\/h2>

Next time you have a bet with a friend, make your winning condition be that they feed you Ribs & Burgers ribs by hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Pros: You get a perfectly tidy meal while they get all the stickiness. <\/span>
<\/span>Cons: You will look weirder than someone eating a burger with a knife and fork.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Mannerly: Use a knife and fork<\/b><\/h2>

Look, using a knife and fork to eat beef short ribs or spare ribs is a bit like using chopsticks to eat a pizza, but our job is to make the best ribs you\u2019ve ever had, not to judge you for how you eat them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In all fairness, a knife and fork will keep you, your fingers, the table, and your face mostly free of delicious BBQ ribs residue. On the other hand, we\u2019re not sure how a knife and fork will let you pick up the bones and tear off the final little strips of meat at the end (you can\u2019t deny you love this part).<\/span><\/p>

The Cultured: Use chopsticks\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>

Anyone who has spent some serious time in Japan will attest that the humble chopsticks are the natural enemy of messy ribs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

A skilled chopstick master can deftly use their tools to tear apart the ribs (they\u2019re beautifully tender, after all), then daintily manoeuvre those meat sticks to your mouth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

A word of warning however: An unskilled chopstick user will end up with so much sauce on their face that the \u2018saving it for later\u2019 excuse simply won\u2019t cut it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Prepared: Tie your hair back<\/b><\/h2>

Long-haired ladies and gentlemen, those luscious locks are a sight to behold, but they\u2019re just not practical when it comes to the stickiest and juiciest of BBQ ribs (ours).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Don\u2019t forget to bring a hair tie to tuck back those tresses, as we all know that it\u2019s one thing for hair to get in the way of a good meal, and something else entirely for those strands to end up sticking to your face by the end of the night. That\u2019s just a shameful waste of basting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Alternating: Swap out the mess with sides\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>

It\u2019s a fact of life that everything those juicy ribs touch will end up smothered in sauce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

So while you have some of that tasty sauce on your fingers, pick up an onion ring, or some of our Famous Chips, or even a Golden Tender. By alternating between your BBQ ribs and a side dish, you can spread that saucy love around and enjoy it all the more in the process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Pig-in-the-mud: Get stuck in<\/b><\/h2>

How often are you faced with premium ribs, slow cooked for a fuller flavour, and prepared with a 35-year-old secret recipe sauce that will have you craving another bite the second you\u2019ve finished the first?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

How often do you find BBQ ribs that have been finished over a flame for the perfect crispy skin, yet succulent and tender meat?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Not often. Or probably, however often you visit your pals at Ribs & Burgers. So we say \u2013 get messy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Accept your fate as a sticky, saucy, satisfied mess. Start with clean fingers (we\u2019re not savages) and dive into those ribs like a pig in mud and don\u2019t come up for air until you\u2019re finished and grinning happily.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

We\u2019ll show you the way to the bathrooms so you can clean yourself up afterwards, and give you a high five on the way back to your seat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juicy, tender, sticky, hot, crispy, flavourful, and utterly delicious – BBQ ribs are in a class of their own when it comes to mouth-watering meals. And of course, \u2018sticky\u2019 is just part of the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsandburgers.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}