The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

like me?
Go ahead and put cute little paper hats over the ends of the
bones before serving to cover up the charring they will get
(or, if you prefer, use foil hats while they cook to prevent
them from charring). You can buy those paper hats online
very cheaply. Personally, I like the primal nature of the way
charred ribs look, enough so that I had my wife’s
engagement ring delivered to her on the bone of a wild boar
chop. Isn’t that romantic?