| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 4 hr 25 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Inactive: | 3 hr |
| Cook: | 1 hr 10 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoon salt
- 2 tablespoons freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground thyme
- 2 tablespoons onion powder
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 4 center cut, bone-in pork chops
- 1 cup apple cider
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Neely’s BBQ sauce, or store-bought BBQ sauce
- 1 tablespoon buttermilk
Instructions
- Mix salt, black pepper, brown sugar, thyme, onion powder and cayenne together in a small bowl. Rub pork chops with the spice mixture. Wrap and place in refrigerator for a few hours.
- Set up your grill/smoker for indirect heat at 275 degrees F., using charcoal and add a handful of the soaked apple wood chips onto the coals.
- Place pork chops on the grill. Close grill and maintain a temperature of 275 degrees F, adding more charcoal and chips, as necessary. Let smoke for 1 hour and 10 minutes, until the pork chops are firm to the touch. Transfer to serving plates and serve with the BBQ sauce.
- In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, add the apple cider and brown sugar and stir to combine. Allow to reduce for 25 minutes. Reduce the heat to low, pour in the BBQ sauce and stir well. Once sauce has warmed, turn off the heat. Add buttermilk and stir to incorporate. Serve over pork chops.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 482 |
| Total Fat | 19 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Carbohydrates | 34 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Sugar | 25 g |
| Protein | 43 g |
| Cholesterol | 137 mg |
| Sodium | 737 mg |
Reviews
Whoever Pat is should never be allowed to post another recipe on this site. Wish I had read the reviews first. FOUR TABLESPOONS OF SALT!!! These chops we like eat a Deere salt lick. I had to apologize to my family for making this. I’m just glad I cut back on the Thyme. I think is you convert everything to Teaspoon except the brown sugar this would be a great rub. The sauce was excellent.
Very good but a bit too spice. The sauce is amazing and mellowed this out but next time I’d put 1 or 1.5 tablespoons of the cayenne pepper. it was still very good with tons of flavor.
Disgusting. Was like eating roadkill after a snowstorm. Way too much cayenne, way way way too much salt. The only reason it gets q star is because the survey won’t let me choose zero.
Very good if you play with the rub. I used 1 1/2 tblsp salt more sugar and a Tsp of Cayenne instead of A tblsp. I also add a little smoked paprika maybe a tblsp.
Way,way,way to salty. Should have read the reviews first. The timing on the smoking was perfect and the BBQ sauce was also very good.
It’s true you have to use your best judgment here, this is a really good rub as long as you make it according to YOUR taste buds. That said 2 tablespoons of salt is almost overdoing it so I would have to chop that down to maybe 1 1/2 but whatever you do please do not add 4 unless you LOVE overly salted food. I love pepper and even though I cut this down it was too much for me so maybe go with 1/2 to 1tbl spoons here. I gave it 5 stars because overall it is a good rub that you make your own.
I made Neely’s bbq sauce a while back, and I didn’t make it into the dipping sauce.. I did add a little chipotle powder to the sauce.. My smoker didn’t quite get the chops done, so I slathered the sauce on em and gave em a quick burn in the broiler.. The rub is awesome! IF you use it like the recipe calls.. These were my first smoked chops and sure won’t be my last! Thank you to the Neelys for your awesome recipe!
these were some of the best pork chops I have ever made.. great flavor. and the sauce, I could have drank a gallon of it…will definately be making it again..
I have an Electric smoker and I put the rub on the chops and let the flavors marry for a few hours, once I cooked them in the smoker and tasted them, they were very very salty. We had to wash off the rub before we ate them, but after that they were really good!! Next I just wont put as much salt as the recipe calls for.
danawatson, thanks for your review! i went outside to start the grill, only to find out i was out of propane! i didn’t have time to get more due to friends coming over, so i rubbed them down with liquid smoke and smoked paprika- turned out awesome!