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Hello All,
I'm new to the group and online comminities as a whole. I've always loved to cook outside and recently bought a used offset smoker at a yardsale and want to figure out how to use it properly. I guess I may be getting in over my head but I picked up a whole flat cut brisket and want to smoke it this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions on technique, temperature, rubs, wood, charcoal, etc. I'm open for any suggestions. |
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"stwr8281" > wrote in message ups.com... > Hello All, > > I'm new to the group and online comminities as a whole. I've always > loved to cook outside and recently bought a used offset smoker at a > yardsale and want to figure out how to use it properly. I guess I may > be getting in over my head but I picked up a whole flat cut brisket > and want to smoke it this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions on > technique, temperature, rubs, wood, charcoal, etc. I'm open for any > suggestions. Welcome to the group! Your best place to start is he http://www.eaglequest.com/~bbq/faq2/toc.html That is the BBQ faq and it has some of the best advice you could ever want. It has detailed recipes & techniques for each cut of meat. It also has great advice for specific types of smokers. I did my first brisket this year, following only the advice from that FAQ and it came out perfect. I had smoked for a few years, doing lots of butts, ribs, and chicken so I was very familiar with my equipment. Good luck and again, welcome! -- Chris http://inanethoughtsandinsaneramblings.blogspot.com |
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"stwr8281" > wrote:
> Hello All, > > I'm new to the group and online comminities as a whole. I've always > loved to cook outside and recently bought a used offset smoker at a > yardsale and want to figure out how to use it properly. I guess I may > be getting in over my head but I picked up a whole flat cut brisket > and want to smoke it this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions on > technique, temperature, rubs, wood, charcoal, etc. I'm open for any > suggestions. Get lots of beer and check out http://www.eaglequest.com/~bbq/ -- Nick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ! ~Semper Fi~ www.delphiayachtsusa.com |
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On 27-Feb-2007, "swibirun" > wrote: > "stwr8281" > wrote in message > ups.com... > > Hello All, > > > > I'm new to the group and online comminities as a whole. > > I've always > > loved to cook outside and recently bought a used offset > > smoker at a > > yardsale and want to figure out how to use it properly. > > I guess I may > > be getting in over my head but I picked up a whole flat > > cut brisket > > and want to smoke it this weekend. Anybody have any > > suggestions on > > technique, temperature, rubs, wood, charcoal, etc. I'm > > open for any > > suggestions. > > Welcome to the group! > > Your best place to start is he > http://www.eaglequest.com/~bbq/faq2/toc.html > > That is the BBQ faq and it has some of the best advice you > could ever want. > It has detailed recipes & techniques for each cut of meat. > > It also has great advice for specific types of smokers. > > I did my first brisket this year, following only the > advice from that FAQ > and it came out perfect. I had smoked for a few years, > doing lots of butts, > ribs, and chicken so I was very familiar with my > equipment. > > Good luck and again, welcome! > -- > Chris Chris gives good advice here, but he doesn't tell you much that you don't already know. Okay, you've cooked outdoors a lot, but you just bought your first offset. You don't mention if your outdoor cooking was mostly gas or charcoal or a mix of the two. We have no idea if you're an old hand at slow cooked BBQ or if your entire experience has been limited to grilling. Okay; you want to cook a brisket. Rather then try giving you instructions, I'm going to share my experience with my first offset Smoker BBQ Pit. 1. A typical packer cut beef brisket will weigh 12 to 16 lbs. Anything smaller then that is either not a packer cut brisket or it came from a woefully immature beef. The latter is not likely as there is no profit margin there. 2. A brisket needs to cook slowly for 10 to 22 or more hours depending on a variety of factors, but mostly the cooking temperature you choose to use. 3. Smoke is not absolutely necessary, but most advocates strive for a definite smoky taste in the final product. 4. A crust on the final product is not necessary either, but I for one am not going to go to all the trouble without getting a nice smoky crust on my brisket. That crust looks like hell, but it doesn't get wasted where I live. At least some of the briskett always gets chopped and that crust gets chopped right along with it. Much of the crust is likely to be filched right out from under your busy hands. Once folks have tasted it, they eat it like candy. 5. I use an offset. I bought it in May of 2003. For the first year I wanted to junk it at least a dozen times. Only my arrogance kept that from happening. I knew that others were happily making BBQ with offsets all over the planet and I wasn't about to admit that I couldn't. 6. Fuel: I can use logs in mine and I have, I don't advise it. You didn't say what particular offset you bought, but if it's not built comparable to a Tejas or a LazyQ offset with 1/4" thick walls it ain't built to cook with logs. Mine is a New Braunfels/ Charbroil Silver Smoker. The walls aren't measured in inches, but by guage. Let's just say, "Way under 1/8 inch." 7. Lump charcoal is nice, but it isn't worth a dollar a pound. I pay 28¢/lb for Royal Oak briquettes. It makes a lot more ash then lump, but it gets the job done. If you can get lump for a decent price, by all means use it. My source for Royal Oak lump at 34¢/lb dried up and I'm stuck now with using R.O. briquettes for which I pay 27¢/lb. 8. You're going to need at least 4 inches of space under your firegrate else you're going to shovel ash four or five times while that brisket is cooking. (Assuming briquettes. Lump will produce much less.) 9. Temperature. Whoo boy. There you'll get more advice then there are people to ask. My pit likes to run at about 270°F on a 75° to 85°F day with not much wind blowing. And the firebox end is a lot hotter then the far end. Some folks will scream foul, but those same folks would inhale my brisket if I didn't tell them how I cooked it. Anything you can maintain between 200° and 275°F will work. The major difference in the end is how long it will take. I get a full sized brisket off in 10 to 12 hours. Some folks take 20 hours or even more to get a brisket done. 10. I'll build a fire using about 15# of briquettes or lump. Dump in 10# of cold charcoal and make a hole in the middle. Dump a chimney full of lit lump in the middle. Don't spread it around. Crack the firebox draft about one inch, open the stack wide open and go drink a beer or something while the pit heats up. Have your meat ready already. 11. Figure out where you're going to put stuff in the pit before you ever open the lid. Position the briskett with the tip closest to the firebox and the flat out near the middle of the chamber. Ribs will do nicely down by the stack end. If you want a butt in there, put it near the middle somewhere. Get it all in there quick. If you have to stack ribs, don't sweat it. Just shuffle them every hour or so. Not sooner. Get the lid closed as soon as you can. Go away. Don't come back for two hours. 12. Check the stack temperature. If it's still above 225° go away some more. Don't touch anything unless you have stacked ribs in there. In that case, quickly shuffle them and get the lid closed again. Don't move anything else, (at all). Do not open the firebox. 13. Eventually, the temperature will start to fall. Have a bucket of cold fuel ready. Open the firebox. Tap the grate(s) with a tire iron or something similar to knock the ash down. Dump in about 2 gallons of cold char- coal. Don't stir it around. Close the lid. Quickly check for ash under the grate. If it's choking the grate or about too, shovel most of it out. I use a trenching tool and a galvanized bucket for this chore. Don't screw around. Get that door closed as soon as you can. 14. Now you have a couple more hours to do nothing. Do it. 15. Even with shuffling every hour or so, my ribs will be done in five or six hours. Check to see if they'll crack at five hours, then evey hour after that. If you have ribs in there that aren't stacked, they may be done as early as four hours. 16. A butt cooking in with a brisket is going to take seven hours and probably more up to nine. Resist the urge to turn your meat over. Turning it end for end one time during the cook is good in an offset because of the wide temperature differential from end to end. The brisket, I wouldn't mess with. The tip is a lot more massive then the flat. It will take more heat. 17. When is it done? Personal preference will dictate how done you want your brisket. Once it gets passed about 170° it's sliceable, but I prefer to take it on out to 185° or even more. I rely on eyesight as my judge until pretty near the end. Then I use one of the little $10 instant read analog probe thermometers. It makes such a small hole, it doesn't bleed and I check in two or three places. Butts, I take out to 195° or better. Ribs are taken off when they tend to crack when bent. 18. Don't start a brisket cook in an offset unless you have at least 40# of charcoal on hand. You shouldn't have to use that much, but you might. If the outside temperature drops or the wind picks up, you might even run short. 19. I hope you paid attention to Chris and read the FAQ first. Just about everything I learned the hard way was in the FAQ in the first place. -- Brick(Youth is wasted on young people) |
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"stwr8281" wrote ...
> Hello All, > > I'm new to the group and online comminities as a whole. I've always > loved to cook outside and recently bought a used offset smoker at a > yardsale and want to figure out how to use it properly. I guess I may > be getting in over my head but I picked up a whole flat cut brisket > and want to smoke it this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions on > technique, temperature, rubs, wood, charcoal, etc. I'm open for any > suggestions. Click he http://www.dannysbbq.com/recipes.asp?rid=75 If Danny says it, you can bet on it. BOB |
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> 1. A typical packer cut beef brisket will weigh 12 to 16 > lbs. > Anything smaller then that is either not a packer cut > brisket > or it came from a woefully immature beef. The latter is not > likely as there is no profit margin there. > > 2. A brisket needs to cook slowly for 10 to 22 or more hours > depending on a variety of factors, but mostly the cooking > temperature you choose to use. > > 3. Smoke is not absolutely necessary, but most advocates > strive for a definite smoky taste in the final product. > > 4. A crust on the final product is not necessary either, but > > I for one am not going to go to all the trouble without > getting > a nice smoky crust on my brisket. That crust looks like > hell, > but it doesn't get wasted where I live. At least some of the > > briskett always gets chopped and that crust gets chopped > right along with it. Much of the crust is likely to be > filched > right out from under your busy hands. Once folks have tasted > it, they eat it like candy. > > 5. I use an offset. I bought it in May of 2003. For the > first year > I wanted to junk it at least a dozen times. Only my > arrogance > kept that from happening. I knew that others were happily > making BBQ with offsets all over the planet and I wasn't > about > to admit that I couldn't. > > 6. Fuel: I can use logs in mine and I have, I don't advise > it. > You didn't say what particular offset you bought, but if > it's not > built comparable to a Tejas or a LazyQ offset with 1/4" > thick > walls it ain't built to cook with logs. Mine is a New > Braunfels/ > Charbroil Silver Smoker. The walls aren't measured in > inches, > but by guage. Let's just say, "Way under 1/8 inch." > > 7. Lump charcoal is nice, but it isn't worth a dollar a > pound. > I pay 28¢/lb for Royal Oak briquettes. It makes a lot more > ash then lump, but it gets the job done. If you can get lump > for a decent price, by all means use it. My source for Royal > Oak lump at 34¢/lb dried up and I'm stuck now with using > R.O. briquettes for which I pay 27¢/lb. > > 8. You're going to need at least 4 inches of space under > your firegrate else you're going to shovel ash four or five > times while that brisket is cooking. (Assuming briquettes. > Lump will produce much less.) > > 9. Temperature. Whoo boy. There you'll get more advice > then there are people to ask. My pit likes to run at about > 270°F on a 75° to 85°F day with not much wind blowing. > And the firebox end is a lot hotter then the far end. Some > folks will scream foul, but those same folks would inhale > my brisket if I didn't tell them how I cooked it. Anything > you can maintain between 200° and 275°F will work. > The major difference in the end is how long it will take. I > get a full sized brisket off in 10 to 12 hours. Some folks > take 20 hours or even more to get a brisket done. > > 10. I'll build a fire using about 15# of briquettes or lump. > Dump in 10# of cold charcoal and make a hole in the > middle. Dump a chimney full of lit lump in the middle. > Don't spread it around. Crack the firebox draft about > one inch, open the stack wide open and go drink a beer > or something while the pit heats up. Have your meat > ready already. > > 11. Figure out where you're going to put stuff in the pit > before you ever open the lid. Position the briskett with > the tip closest to the firebox and the flat out near the > middle of the chamber. Ribs will do nicely down by > the stack end. If you want a butt in there, put it near > the middle somewhere. Get it all in there quick. If you > have to stack ribs, don't sweat it. Just shuffle them > every hour or so. Not sooner. Get the lid closed as soon > as you can. Go away. Don't come back for two hours. > > 12. Check the stack temperature. If it's still above 225° > go away some more. Don't touch anything unless you > have stacked ribs in there. In that case, quickly shuffle > them and get the lid closed again. Don't move anything > else, (at all). Do not open the firebox. > > 13. Eventually, the temperature will start to fall. Have > a bucket of cold fuel ready. Open the firebox. Tap the > grate(s) with a tire iron or something similar to knock > the ash down. Dump in about 2 gallons of cold char- > coal. Don't stir it around. Close the lid. Quickly check > for ash under the grate. If it's choking the grate or about > too, shovel most of it out. I use a trenching tool and a > galvanized bucket for this chore. Don't screw around. > Get that door closed as soon as you can. > > 14. Now you have a couple more hours to do nothing. > Do it. > > 15. Even with shuffling every hour or so, my ribs will be > done in five or six hours. Check to see if they'll crack > at five hours, then evey hour after that. If you have > ribs in there that aren't stacked, they may be done as > early as four hours. > > 16. A butt cooking in with a brisket is going to take > seven hours and probably more up to nine. Resist > the urge to turn your meat over. Turning it end for end > one time during the cook is good in an offset because > of the wide temperature differential from end to end. > The brisket, I wouldn't mess with. The tip is a lot more > massive then the flat. It will take more heat. > > 17. When is it done? Personal preference will dictate > how done you want your brisket. Once it gets passed > about 170° it's sliceable, but I prefer to take it on out > to 185° or even more. I rely on eyesight as my judge > until pretty near the end. Then I use one of the little > $10 instant read analog probe thermometers. It makes > such a small hole, it doesn't bleed and I check in two > or three places. Butts, I take out to 195° or better. Ribs > are taken off when they tend to crack when bent. > > 18. Don't start a brisket cook in an offset unless you have > at least 40# of charcoal on hand. You shouldn't have to > use that much, but you might. If the outside temperature > drops or the wind picks up, you might even run short. > > 19. I hope you paid attention to Chris and read the FAQ > first. Just about everything I learned the hard way was in > the FAQ in the first place. > > -- > Brick(Youth is wasted on young people) Do what Brick says!! I couldn't have said it any better. I'll only add that I consider it cooked when I can twist one of those very long grilling forks in a brisket or pork butt. If it twists easily it's good for eating. You might consider a remote thermometer to keep an eye on pit temperature. Good thing about this "hobby" is even your worst cook will likely be tasty to others. Nobody but, you know how "bad" it might be. Cook enough and you might start to notice a few "regulars" stopping by every time you cook. Rob |
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Question:
I think I've read that any brisket one BBQs should have a layer of fat on top. Is this true? I say this because my local Costco sells a brisket but it has no fat layer. I've never done brisket but wanted to try and didn't want to buy the wrong type cut. Any advice will be well used. Bill Jones " > wrote in message ps.com... > 1. A typical packer cut beef brisket will weigh 12 to 16 > lbs. > Anything smaller then that is either not a packer cut > brisket > or it came from a woefully immature beef. The latter is not > likely as there is no profit margin there. > > 2. A brisket needs to cook slowly for 10 to 22 or more hours > depending on a variety of factors, but mostly the cooking > temperature you choose to use. > > 3. Smoke is not absolutely necessary, but most advocates > strive for a definite smoky taste in the final product. > > 4. A crust on the final product is not necessary either, but > > I for one am not going to go to all the trouble without > getting > a nice smoky crust on my brisket. That crust looks like > hell, > but it doesn't get wasted where I live. At least some of the > > briskett always gets chopped and that crust gets chopped > right along with it. Much of the crust is likely to be > filched > right out from under your busy hands. Once folks have tasted > it, they eat it like candy. > > 5. I use an offset. I bought it in May of 2003. For the > first year > I wanted to junk it at least a dozen times. Only my > arrogance > kept that from happening. I knew that others were happily > making BBQ with offsets all over the planet and I wasn't > about > to admit that I couldn't. > > 6. Fuel: I can use logs in mine and I have, I don't advise > it. > You didn't say what particular offset you bought, but if > it's not > built comparable to a Tejas or a LazyQ offset with 1/4" > thick > walls it ain't built to cook with logs. Mine is a New > Braunfels/ > Charbroil Silver Smoker. The walls aren't measured in > inches, > but by guage. Let's just say, "Way under 1/8 inch." > > 7. Lump charcoal is nice, but it isn't worth a dollar a > pound. > I pay 28¢/lb for Royal Oak briquettes. It makes a lot more > ash then lump, but it gets the job done. If you can get lump > for a decent price, by all means use it. My source for Royal > Oak lump at 34¢/lb dried up and I'm stuck now with using > R.O. briquettes for which I pay 27¢/lb. > > 8. You're going to need at least 4 inches of space under > your firegrate else you're going to shovel ash four or five > times while that brisket is cooking. (Assuming briquettes. > Lump will produce much less.) > > 9. Temperature. Whoo boy. There you'll get more advice > then there are people to ask. My pit likes to run at about > 270°F on a 75° to 85°F day with not much wind blowing. > And the firebox end is a lot hotter then the far end. Some > folks will scream foul, but those same folks would inhale > my brisket if I didn't tell them how I cooked it. Anything > you can maintain between 200° and 275°F will work. > The major difference in the end is how long it will take. I > get a full sized brisket off in 10 to 12 hours. Some folks > take 20 hours or even more to get a brisket done. > > 10. I'll build a fire using about 15# of briquettes or lump. > Dump in 10# of cold charcoal and make a hole in the > middle. Dump a chimney full of lit lump in the middle. > Don't spread it around. Crack the firebox draft about > one inch, open the stack wide open and go drink a beer > or something while the pit heats up. Have your meat > ready already. > > 11. Figure out where you're going to put stuff in the pit > before you ever open the lid. Position the briskett with > the tip closest to the firebox and the flat out near the > middle of the chamber. Ribs will do nicely down by > the stack end. If you want a butt in there, put it near > the middle somewhere. Get it all in there quick. If you > have to stack ribs, don't sweat it. Just shuffle them > every hour or so. Not sooner. Get the lid closed as soon > as you can. Go away. Don't come back for two hours. > > 12. Check the stack temperature. If it's still above 225° > go away some more. Don't touch anything unless you > have stacked ribs in there. In that case, quickly shuffle > them and get the lid closed again. Don't move anything > else, (at all). Do not open the firebox. > > 13. Eventually, the temperature will start to fall. Have > a bucket of cold fuel ready. Open the firebox. Tap the > grate(s) with a tire iron or something similar to knock > the ash down. Dump in about 2 gallons of cold char- > coal. Don't stir it around. Close the lid. Quickly check > for ash under the grate. If it's choking the grate or about > too, shovel most of it out. I use a trenching tool and a > galvanized bucket for this chore. Don't screw around. > Get that door closed as soon as you can. > > 14. Now you have a couple more hours to do nothing. > Do it. > > 15. Even with shuffling every hour or so, my ribs will be > done in five or six hours. Check to see if they'll crack > at five hours, then evey hour after that. If you have > ribs in there that aren't stacked, they may be done as > early as four hours. > > 16. A butt cooking in with a brisket is going to take > seven hours and probably more up to nine. Resist > the urge to turn your meat over. Turning it end for end > one time during the cook is good in an offset because > of the wide temperature differential from end to end. > The brisket, I wouldn't mess with. The tip is a lot more > massive then the flat. It will take more heat. > > 17. When is it done? Personal preference will dictate > how done you want your brisket. Once it gets passed > about 170° it's sliceable, but I prefer to take it on out > to 185° or even more. I rely on eyesight as my judge > until pretty near the end. Then I use one of the little > $10 instant read analog probe thermometers. It makes > such a small hole, it doesn't bleed and I check in two > or three places. Butts, I take out to 195° or better. Ribs > are taken off when they tend to crack when bent. > > 18. Don't start a brisket cook in an offset unless you have > at least 40# of charcoal on hand. You shouldn't have to > use that much, but you might. If the outside temperature > drops or the wind picks up, you might even run short. > > 19. I hope you paid attention to Chris and read the FAQ > first. Just about everything I learned the hard way was in > the FAQ in the first place. > > -- > Brick(Youth is wasted on young people) Do what Brick says!! I couldn't have said it any better. I'll only add that I consider it cooked when I can twist one of those very long grilling forks in a brisket or pork butt. If it twists easily it's good for eating. You might consider a remote thermometer to keep an eye on pit temperature. Good thing about this "hobby" is even your worst cook will likely be tasty to others. Nobody but, you know how "bad" it might be. Cook enough and you might start to notice a few "regulars" stopping by every time you cook. Rob |
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"wj" > wrote in message ... > Question: > > I think I've read that any brisket one BBQs should have a layer of fat on > top. Is this true? I say this because my local Costco sells a brisket > but it has no fat layer. > > I've never done brisket but wanted to try and didn't want to buy the wrong > type cut. That is a trimmed flat. You want a packer cut. Wal Mart has them |
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"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote:
> "wj" > wrote in message > > > Question: > > > > I think I've read that any brisket one BBQs should have a layer of fat > > on top. Is this true? I say this because my local Costco sells a > > brisket but it has no fat layer. > > > > I've never done brisket but wanted to try and didn't want to buy the > > wrong type cut. > > That is a trimmed flat. You want a packer cut. Wal Mart has them If you can't find a packer cut anywhere, put a layer of bacon strips on top. -- Nick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ! ~Semper Fi~ |
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"Nick Cramer" > wrote in message ... >> put a layer of bacon strips on top.<< mmm, that might be worth trying regardless of the cut. Wonder how it would work using one of those tenderizers that uses multiple needles, then layer it with the bacon? RM~ |
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This was some very good advise to the new comer here.
DG " BOB" > wrote in message ... > "stwr8281" wrote ... >> Hello All, >> >> I'm new to the group and online comminities as a whole. I've always >> loved to cook outside and recently bought a used offset smoker at a >> yardsale and want to figure out how to use it properly. I guess I may >> be getting in over my head but I picked up a whole flat cut brisket >> and want to smoke it this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions on >> technique, temperature, rubs, wood, charcoal, etc. I'm open for any >> suggestions. > > Click he > > http://www.dannysbbq.com/recipes.asp?rid=75 > > If Danny says it, you can bet on it. > > BOB > |
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