Rib David

Backyard rib smoking, rub and sauce recipes, and budget meat buying tips

Backyard BBQ cooks in the US who smoke or grill ribs and want to buy meat cheaper at Costco, Walmart or Aldi (inferred from titles and the about text).

• Realistic avatar
• A photorealistic middle-aged man with dark swept-back hair and a greying goatee, in a black work shirt and a denim or canvas apron with leather straps, framed waist-up and smiling while holding ribs or steaks toward the camera.

One rib or beef topic per video: a head-to-head test with a declared winner, a store-buying guide from a 'veteran butcher', or a cheap homemade rub or sauce that replaces a store product.

10–14 min in August uploads; 16–27 min (mostly 22–24) since September

• Rib cooking methods (3-2-1, wrapping, steaming)
• Costco and supermarket meat buying guides
• Homemade rubs and BBQ sauces
• Cheap cuts that replace expensive beef
• Method and store showdowns

• Veteran Butcher: [The Only X I Buy / How I Save $N] at Costco
• Stop Buying [Product] — This Cheap $[N] TEXAS Recipe (Lasts a Year)
• NEVER [Cook Ribs X] Again — This Old TEXAS Pitmaster Trick [Beats / Is Juicier]
• I Tested Every Way to [X] Ribs — One Clear Winner
• I'm Not Buying [Cut] Anymore —This Veteran Butcher Trick Gets Twice the Meat

The persona centred waist-up, smiling, holding meat toward the camera or presenting compared items; a 2–4 word bold yellow or white caption, often a price tag or arrow, against a changing set (store aisle, smoker, butcher room).

• One video carries the channel: 'Veteran Butcher: The Only Ribs I Buy at Costco' has 73,913 views, about 47% of 155,760 total
• 'Veteran Butcher' authority hook appears in 8 of 30 titles, including the top video
• Price-saving recipe titles: both 'Stop Buying [X] — This Cheap $N TEXAS Recipe' videos are #2 and #3 (17,668 and 12,999 views)
• High output: 32 videos since 2026-08-16, about 5.4 a week with a median gap of 1.1 days
• Fast recent growth: 774 of 1,090 subscribers and 119,998 views gained in the last 22 days, after the Sep 3 top video