Two Briskets Jan 2011

Now, I would have never guessed you would be so careful on food safety! LOL. Those are a couple fine looking briskets for coming from Walley World, good job. These smokers do a fine job cooking briskets.

As far as reading other forums to get knowledge on brisket cooking... I positive that Smokin',Tom, or RibDog would have been more then happy to help a feller out. I'm certain that a person couldn't get much better school'n then from them, ya know! Guess I might be a little bias on that statement,oh well, when you walk at the Jack you get my attention.

Keep up the good work, like to see those pics,thanks!

LOL Yeah can’t afford to become complacent. Normally I would have gone to my local butcher for my briskets, but I didn’t have time to order them. These had quite a bit more fat on them than I am used to, but the AmeriQue makes briskets almost seem like child’s play.

Smokin Okie’s Brisket 101 is the first place I go then read my notes from my last smoke. After I have read almost every brisket post in this forum I looked up brisket on other sites. As much as I like brisket I guess I was looking for something different to try.

I gotta agree with you on the school’n offered here. I haven’t been steered wrong yet.

Boy. Those look nice. Thanks for the pictures. Guess it's time to smoke another brisket.

So, what did you think?

I couldn't tell for sure, what grade where they? Around here Wally World only sells select.

Great photos by the way, thanks for posting.

Russ

The COPs only said Excel on them.
I don’t remember the COPs from my butcher having anything on them.
These had a ½” to ¾” thicker fat cap on them than the ones I get from my butcher.
I am guessing I trimmed 5 – 6 lbs of fat off before I rubbed them.
They were juicy, tender, had very little leftover fat, and were quite tasty.
I wanted to shred half of them but the boss wanted all of them sliced.
I had to go a bit thick to get it done, but as I said they were really good.

Normally, the grade has to be on there, when WW doesn't have it, I worry. That means it could be anything, but usually it's select or lower.

Key is it worked for you and that's all that counts.