Smoked Brisket - Saturday, October 28, 2023

First time using the WSM. Hope all goes well, If it rains the smoke is cancelled. If it rains in the middle of the smoke, stay the course but clean up will be messy. Water will get in there and end up at the bottom part. Cannot clean that out until it is 100% cooled down which will be the next day at the earliest. I am starting this around 5 am and go from there. I am quite excited to do this. Rain is in the forecast every day now, but hopefully it will end when I start to do this. I can wait awhile and start it later but that means it will be later in the evening when I am done. The Brisket will be cooked a day or two early and I think I can just toss it in the slow cooker on warm the day we eat it. Next summer I can do this on any day as it doesn't seem to rain as much.

Bring fire extinguisher out there too. Never know, shit happens.

Ingredients

Brisket - 17 lbs. but I cut it up into the six pieces, the flat and point. Had a real hard time doing it too. I think I can get 3 meals out of it and maybe 4 if it was just the three of us. Basically around $33 a meal or even $25 for just the three of us. Cheap!! 

Kingsford Charcoal

Bradley Pucks - Apple ( just a few in with the charcoal )

Salt and Pepper - Got this at Bulk Barn. Need to buy like a lb. each before I do this again. Mix up equal parts in a bottle and coat the brisket fully. Trimming the fat is the most difficult part from what I have seen on You Tube. Yup, I had a real hard time doing it. I will get better at it when I do it a few times.

2 pm - Just at the later stages of the wrapped stage. Looked great. At 4 pm I will unwrap them from the butcher paper and toss them in foil. In the pre-heated cooler they go for another 3 hours. 

7 pm - Done. I am cooking the rest of my Briskets in the oven. Just too long of a day. I found the meat                too smokey. 2 - 3 hours for ribs before wrapping in butchers paper and foil.

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Smoke only for 2 hours. I find the smoke flavour is too intense for my tastes. Easy does it.