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Plate ribs

Plate ribs substitutes

What to use when you can't find Plate ribs at your butcher

Plate ribs is the traditional name in United States. Outside that tradition, butchers carry comparable beef cuts under different names — sometimes the same anatomical piece, sometimes a close cousin. The alternatives below are grouped by country so you can match what your local butcher actually carries.

Argentina

Costillarclose substitute

Both whole-along-bone slow-cooked beef ribs from the plate region. Costillar is grilled flat on parrilla or vertically on asador a la cruz over coals; plate ribs is smoked low-and-slow over post-oak in Texas BBQ tradition. Different cooking, same cut.

Asado de tiraapproximate

Same general anatomical region (short plate / chuck rib), but cut differently: asado de tira is a thin (~½-inch) cross-cut Argentine strip, plate ribs is the whole long bone-in slab smoked low-and-slow.

Brazil

Costela ponta de agulhaclose substitute

Both are whole-along-bone slow-cooked beef ribs from the chest/plate region. Plate ribs is the Texas-BBQ-tradition smoke-for-12-hours version; costela ponta de agulha is the Brazilian-churrasco vertical-fire-grill version with more cartilage. Different cooking traditions, very similar cut.

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