Butts and Briskets Questions

This question comes around every couple of months or so. I prefer butts over brisket for the basting effect. As for fat side up, I prefer butts fat side up...it provides a better bark IMHO. Brisket...depends on who you ask.

Someone asked about briskets up/down on facebook over the weekend and got about 50 replies equally divided. The best one was, "Every time a cook smokes a brisket fat side down, God kills a kitten."

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Pork dripping on beef? Ehhhh

Beef dripping on pork? Heaven!

I must be responsible for a lot of kitten deaths. Fat side down for me on the briskets. I do FTC fat side up, so maybe god only cuts their tail off.

I'm in the butts over brisket camp. Fat side up on brisket unless using the bottom rack in the FEC, then it's fat side down for a bit of protection from the heat.

If I were to cook briskets and butts together, which I usually don't because I have a different cooking routine for each, I would cook butts over briskets. Briskets, I cook fat side down and are cooked fat side up especially if the butts are over the briskets. Fat side down on the briskets to protect the flat from the heat and fat side up on butts because they would be farther away from the heat source in this scenario.

Thanks guys. I find it interested to hear everyone's feedback on things!

As someone told me many years ago, "There's no right and wrong in barbecue, but I'm right, dammit."

Like the good cooks said.Think about where your hot spots are in the cooker.Think about the butts will take care of themselves,whatever.

The brisket flat is overwhelmingly the critical part of your cook,so work around it.

Hmm.. I always put butts on the left side and briskets on the right. Pork over pork and beef over beef.

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"There's no right and wrong in barbecue, but I'm right, dammit."

You're definetly right about one thing!

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Originally posted by AZScott:
Hmm.. I always put butts on the left side and briskets on the right. Pork over pork and beef over beef.

This is actually a good thought. I wasnt sure if I could fit butts and briskets on the same shelf.