BEST Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs

Learn how to make the BEST easy slow cooker bbq ribs. These incredibly flavorful and tasty baby back ribs are fall-off-the-bone tender. 

While you’re at it, try these other tasty beef recipes like my Braised Beef Short Ribs, Best Easy Prime Rib Recipes, or Grilled Tri Tip Steak with Tiger Sauce!

This is what Summer tastes like. Bbq ribs. When they’re good, really really good, I will take ribs any day of the year, no questions asked. But when it comes down to it I just think they taste better in the Summertime, probably  because that’s when my mother always served ribs.

If she was serving ribs it was likely Memorial Day, or my third oldest sister’s birthday, and overly warm and sunny outside. There was a good chance dessert would be homemade berry ice cream. It was always summer when we had ribs.

And always grilled. She’d send Pops or one of my three brothers out back to the extra large grill on the cement patio with a pan of ribs and a bowl of what we called “secret sauce” which was really just a combination of ketchup and brown sugar that makes all things barbecued one hundred and fifteen percent more delicious.

Funny story: the first time I ever tried to cook ribs, I put them on the grill, forgot about them, and bunt them to a crisp. Honestly there was nothing there but bone and char. And I almost cried thinking about the eighteen dollars I’d spent on a rack ribs and wondered how I’d ever tell my husband that instead of ribs we were having stovetop quesadillas for dinner.  He didn’t mind of course because he’s him, but oh how I mourned the death of those baby back ribs that night.

Lesson learned. I now put a timer on my phone – or three timers really, you know, just in case – when grilling anything, especially ribs.

We are a few weeks shy of Summer weather around here, but Memorial Day will be here before we know it so I’m sharing with you a foolproof recipe for super tender and flavorful ribs that you cannot go wrong with. (Bonus: there is extremely little risk in burning these ribs to a crisp. Your ribs will not go uneaten.) These are slow cooker ribs. That’s right, ribs made in the crockpot my friends.

The key is to cook them low and slow for about 8 hours, then pop them into the oven for a quick broil – just 5-8 minutes or so – and you’ll have the ultimate, best ever slow cooker bbq ribs. Don’t tell my mother I’m teaching you how to cook ribs any other way than on the grill, but these fall-off-the-bone beauties will become your go-to for every backyard bbq and Summer hangout.

What people are saying about these BEST Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs

“These are seriously the BEST ribs I have ever had – better than any restaurant! My husband and I both loved them, and I will definitely be making them again! Thanks for the recipe!” – Sierra

Serve these ribs with my favorite homemade bbq sauce!