Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Crockpot thread plug: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...tta-eat-on-the-cheap-crock-pot-thread.500700/

 

Glad you screenshot it! Now if anyone asks, I'm just going to tell them to PM you so I don't have to type it again .

It is but one of MANY ways to get it done. I've cooked a brisket like that countless times, but I think the method is still easy enough to follow for a first timer.

 

Just know going in to it that brisket is a fickle SOB. My method is in that earlier screenshot, but the main advice I'd give you is to give yourself PLENTY of time. You can rest a brisket in a cooler that remains shut for hours on end, so you can't finish it too early. You can, however, find yourself in a rush to serve at a certain time and ruin 10 hours of work in 30 minutes of haste (i.e. not resting it or pulling too early).

Good luck and post pictures!

If I were restricted to one wood for the rest of my BBQ days, it'd be pecan. Love that stuff.

 

Friend from my homebrew club posted this:

 

Now that's what I call a wall of text.

 

Good idea!

Done.

 

TL;DR

Crockpotted the brisket instead.

 

I can see this, as a beginner, I've done two briskets, one took 12 hours, one took 13. Whether you smoke it the entire time, crutch it, or smoke, then oven, make sure you take it to about 205.

 

And it was as good as one done in the smoker too, right?

 

I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE

 

What should I be looking at in general time wise for a 6 lb flat? I was thinking putting it on around 6 in the morning for dinner tomorrow night. Should I go earlier?

 

6 should be enough time for dinner. Even at a rate of 1.5 hours per trimmed pound.

 

I think crutch with some sort of juice/bourbon whatever is best for just a flat... like i said, much harder to not dry out than a full packer

 

Gonna be my first time trying brisket. No membership, but I weaseled my way in to Costco with somebody in the parking lot to be able to get this.

Hopefully I can make this fit in the WSM 14 and not sure if I want to start it tonight since I have the day off tomorrow. Would be nice to have for a late breakfast.

 

I need to go check out Costco. $3.99/lb for a prime packer..... I paid more than that for a choice at sams.

 

Definitely. Stater Bros., the best local chain large grocery store, has select for $5.99/lb.

Buying 4-5 of these a year already pays for the Costco membership, so I no longer have to sneak in.

 

Got mine at Publix and it was $7.99/lb.

I'll be going to Sam's next time.

 

They are hit or miss.

I need to get a membership to resteraunt depot.

 

I'm liking what I'm seeing everyone else paid than what I did though.

 

Don't even pay attention to those people from Texas, they are spoiled with their brisket prices.