Smoked Prime Rib has become a Christmas tradition at my house! I mean is there anything better than a good prime rib!! I have had prime rib in a restaurant and I always was like ehhh. Well, a friend filled me in on how they smoke their own prime rib so we opted to try it at home! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ad #MakeHeartburnHistory #CollectiveBias (I have included affiliate links to products I love. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. )
Now with life always changing, we have been working to evolve our old traditions into new traditions. The kids took to Pinterest and searched for Christmas dinners!! One meat kept popping up prime rib, now we have been trying new meats but this is one the kids and I haven’t had. Well, we didn’t want to have our Christmas dinner with meat we weren’t sure we liked so we had to give it a test run and timed it over the weekend watching football.
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Smoked Prime Rib Roast Ingredients:
- Prime Rib Roast
- Smoker Chips or disks
- Seasonings
Snider’s Prime Rib & Roast – 32 OzMcCormick Grillmates MONTREAL STEAK Seasoning 29oz. (2 Pack)
Lawry’s Garlic Salt – 33oz
Now an important note about my roast was I picked mine up at a local butcher shop. They asked how I was cooking my roast and offered to season it!! The seasoning is what I was most nervous about so to have an expert do it was perfect. I also had the butch tie it up when he said it would help with flavor and cooking, he wasn’t wrong at all!
How To Smoke A Prime Rib Roast:
Season your prime rib roast and if possible let it set in the fridge for a day or more to allow the flavor to soak in.
Now, this is where you know your smoker and how to prep it for smoking. I use an electric smoker and prefer to use apple disks for smoking all my meat.
Remove your chip holder, water bin, and racks out of your smoker and cap off your exhaust pipe if necessary.
Now I really like to use pucks in my smoker! Below are the pucks I use and also my smoker as well. I also recommend having a good meat thermometer and oven gloves. It is so much easier to pull out meat from the smoker with gloves.
Smoke Hollow 30162EW 30-Inch Electric Smoker with Window, BlackEatSmart Precision Pro Digital Thermometer – Instant Read w/ Splashproof Design and Backlit Screen (Black)
Bradley Smoker BTAP48 Apple Bisquettes 48 pack
BBQ Gloves – Oven Gloves – Perfect Grill Gloves – Extreme Heat Resistant
Fire up the smoker by raising the temperature on the dial.
Fill the water dish and chip holder.
Place in your chips and once they start to smoke put in your water tray. I find I can get good smoke faster by doing this method.
Once your smoker gets hot enough and a smoke place in your prime rib roast on a rack. I kept my smoker at 150-200 I cooked low and slow for the best flavor.
Roast for hours at least over 6 hours. We made the mistake of pulling it out to see if we could grill it faster to finish it off and it went up in flames, learn from our mistake don’t put it on the grill!
Be sure to keep replacing your smoker chips and disks to keep the smoke going.
We smoked ours to an internal temperature of 130, so be sure to look at what temperature you want for how rare you want your meat.
There are no words to describe how amazing this was to eat!! But if you are like me heartburn is a worry, plan ahead cause this is amazing!
What is your go-to holiday food??
What To Serve With Smoked Prime Rib Roast:
- Loaded Mashed Potatoes
- Green Bean Casserole
- Oven Roasted Garlic Potatoes Recipe
- Garlic Parmesan Biscuit Pull Apart Bread Recipe
- Easy Oven Roasted Baby Potatoes
- Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Peanut Butter Pie
- Crescent Roll Peach Dumplings Recipe

Smoked Prime Rib Roast
This Smoked Prime Rib Roast is perfect for your Christmas dinner!!! Easy to make and the taste is perfect for the holiday season!
Ingredients
- Prime Rib Roast
- Sniders Prime Rib Seasoning
- Montreal Steak seasoning
- garlic salt
- rosemary
Instructions
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Season your prime rib roast and if possible let it set in the fridge for a day or more to allow the flavor to soak in.
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Now, this is where you know your smoker and how to prep it for smoking. I use an electric smoker and prefer to use apple disks for smoking all my meat.
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Remove your chip holder, water bin, and racks out of your smoker and cap off your exhaust pipe if necessary.
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Fire up the smoker by raising the temperature on the dial
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Fill the water dish and chip holder
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Place in your chips and once they start to smoke put in your water tray. I find I can get a good smoke faster by doing this method.
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Once your smoker gets hot enough and a smoke place in your prime rib roast on a rack. I kept my smoker at 150-200
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Roast for hours at least over 6 hours. We made the mistake of pulling it out to see if we could grill it faster to finish it off and it went up in flames, learn from our mistake don't put it on the grill!
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Be sure to keep replacing your smoker chips and disks to keep the smoke going.
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We smoked ours to an internal temperature of 130, so be sure to look what temperature you want for how rare you want your meat.
Jocelyn @ Hip Mama's Place says
Prime rib is one of our Christmas eve family dinner traditions. Yours looks like it came out great, i hope y’all enjoyed! Heartburn as also haunted me since my second pregnancy, i will be sure to grab some Nexium next time i’m out.
Jeanine says
Oh my goodness. I would love to have this right about now. It looks and sounds just Devine. I think this weekend we’ll be making this!
Heather says
Prime Rib sounds wonderful for the holidays! I’ve never purchased from a local butcher shop or used a smoker. Two great tips I should add to my holiday menu preparation. #client
Our Family World says
This would be perfect this coming Christmas! I’m pretty sure that my family would love that smoked prime rib toast. I’m craving for this!
Julie says
What a classic meal! Perfect for a holiday dinner! Love how simple it actually is.
Jamie says
This roast looks like such an incredible meal! I would love to make this for dinner on Christmas, it would be such a hit!
Elizabeth O says
Smart idea to have all the bases covered with our foods this holiday season. Heart burn can be a real festivities spoiler.
Sandra Garth says
This is my husband’s favorite and I’m sure I’d be nominated for wife of the year if I could pull this off. our grocery store had bone in prime rib for $6.99 a pound yesterday. Now I wish I had bought one.
Christine says
Your prime rib looks wonderful! I cook mine in the oven with crushed black peppercorns, salt and a couple of herbs. I would have shared the recipe but apparently pinterest is acting up and I can’t pull up the recipe I use ever year. grr. sorry! This year I am looking at twelve for dinner so I am cooking two prime ribs and one crown roast of pork. (hubby is a pork lover not steak) I wish I owned a smoker, that would be a great way to cook one.
Jan says
That roast looks beautiful! And I hear you on the heartburn but am starting to find what triggers it for me so I’ve been watching what I eat a little more 😉
Chris says
Please be certain you are actually getting PRIME-Rib. Not just RIB Roast. A lot of butchers will sell you choice rib roast, Make sure its Prime. It should have great fatty marbling through the roast. It gets pricy but the family is worth it as we celebrate a great Christmas.