Overnight brisket

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natej

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Mar 11, 2017
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Victoria, Australia
Gday everyone

I rarely smoke brisket because in Australia, briskets are alot different. The cows are slaughtered alot earlier here and a good 85 percent of brisket available is yearling, good brisket for smoking is hard to find and unbelieveably expensive. A 15lb packer that would be close to American Standard costs EASILY well over 100 dollar's

Regardless, i headed over to the butcher and asked for his fattiest, most marbled brisket.. came away with a 9.5lb yearling

The plan is to smoke at 220 - 225 overnight, perhaps wrap i havent decided yet. This will be my first overnight smoke so im interested to see how it goes, Uds is usually pretty good at holding a consistent temperature. Smoking with mangrove lump charcoal and some native aussie redgum & cherry wood rubbed with oakridge black ops


 
Get the UDS to 250 and Watch the color.. you want a deep golden brown color.. once you are happy with
Your bark, wrap it in foil or butcher paper till the IT hits 205 and a tooth pick sides in with no resistance.
Pull from smoker and cover it with a towel let it rest at least an hour
 
Cheers mate!, the point always turns out brilliant but the flat tends to come out dryish.. the yearling brisket we have here seems to have not as much marbling as american briskets and ive never been able to get one really juicy and jiggly.. might get up early morning and start the cook at a higher heat rather than 220 all night
 
Good luck with your brisket!

I've had very good results smoking brisket at 270-280.

Just as juicy & no stall. They also cook much quicker.

Al
 
Thanks mate!

Brisket has sort of become my nemesis, im determined to get one perfect, its just finding the correct way to do that with the briskets available here
 
Went on at 5am.. 4 n half hours later of smoking at 261 steady.. its sitting at 160, isnt that fast? Or is it just me?
 
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Well to date it was my juiciest most tender brisket.. it cooked incredibly quick! So much so that i checked that my maverick probes weren't shot!.. total of 7.5 hours for 9lb, i was shocked!! Was probing like butter all through the flat and point so i pulled it off at lunchtime and put that puppy in a cooler with towels (already wrapped) and held it for 6 hours!! Was still steaming hot.. i think i held it for too long because although the meat had juices flowing everywhere (when squished it ran like water) it was TOO tender.

Also seem to be noticing a lack of smoke ring recently, not that it matters, just an observation i have made, when i use briqs though i seem to get one


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