Instant pot MAGIC!

We're having a "farewelcome" potluck for my department at work today. We're saying goodbye to one analyst, and welcoming her replacement, who's already been here in training for a week. I always volunteer to bring a main dish, since I have an Instant Pot, and the outgoing analyst asked if someone could bring ribs. She's a picky eater, but apparently she loves BBQ, so I took up the challenge.

I now have ribs cooking away in the IP and my office smells AMAZING. I was amazed how easy these are to make, and I thought somebody else might want to try it as well!

1. Start with a rack of pork ribs. Clean them by removing the membrane from the back, if they haven't been cleaned up already.
2. Pat the ribs dry with a paper towel. Rub them with your favorite spice mixture. (I got a bottle of "chicken n' ribs" seasoning at Safeway and it smells amazing!
3. Put a trivet or steamer tray in the bottom of the IP. Stand the ribs upright in a circle, resting on the trivet. (You don't want them touching the bottom of the pot.)
4. Add about a cup of water and half a cup of apple cider vinegar to the bottom of the pot.
5. Cook on high pressure for 30 minutes.
6. Once that's done, do a slow release for 10 minutes, then a quick release to vent the rest of the steam.
7. Cover the ribs in your favorite BBQ sauce. I'm using Kinder's garlic BBQ sauce, but any kind will work!
8. Leave the sauced ribs in the IP for a little bit so they can soak up the sauce.

I just got an Instant Pot and want to make ribs. Thanks for sharing!

I saw that way of making them and wondered how they'd turn out, I usually do mine in the slow cooker and add onions too, but keep thinking I should try them that way, the only pork I've been able to eat so far is Ribs due to slow falling apart method of cooking.

I found that I had a much easier time with pork if it was really moist. I got tubs of premade BBQ pork sandwich filling and would eat it with a spoon (no bread), and that worked really well for me.

We will be right over with our plate and fork

Ribs in IP are very very good.

Sometimes instead of water I used 1 cup hard cider, or chicken or beef stock.

Great idea! I did a mix of apple cider vinegar and water, but next time I'll do it with hard cider.

OOooh, good idea. We ended up with a bunch of cider we don't actually like for drinking, but cooking with it would be awesome.

Not possible in the office, but we always finish our ribs off on the grill. Yummo

Could use a toaster oven, if there is one, set to broil :)

Help set the sauce up nicely