My first smoke on a new UDS... Brisket Q-view too

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4t64rd

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Jun 24, 2008
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Largo, FL
Talk about trial by fire, literally.

Just finished getting my UDS up and running, had it at 230, so I decided it was time to get the brisket flat ready... all they had at Sams club is halfs, so it'll have to do. They do a pretty good job of leaving the right mount of the fat cap on, so I decided to let that be on the bottom to protect the meat.

I watched a few of some videos online by a guy name BigMista, and he uses a injector marinade, so I thought I'd try it on this... I got a $2.50 injector from the Walmart, and I made up a marinade of things I thought would taste good, using Big Mista's suggestion of beef broth as a base

1-2/3 cups of Beef and Low sodim chicken broths
1/2 Goya Mojo marinade
1/2 cup of white cooking wine
1/2 cup of E V olive oil
4 tbsp garlic powder (you may want to use garlic juice, this clugged the injector a few times)
2 tbsp cajun seasoning
1 tbsp Crystal hot sauce
1/2 tbsp smoked paprika
1/2 tbsp chili powder

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I got about half of it in the meat, and save the rest for basting later.

Then I made a rub based on a Paula Dean recipe I used for oven smoke brisket using some of the same spices I used in the marinade:

3 tbsp brown sugar
3 tbsp garlic powder
1 tbsp oregano
1 tbsp parsley
1/2 tbsp Badia smoked paprika
1/2 tbsp chili powder
1/2 tbsp black peper, coarsly ground
1/2 tbsp onion powder (I was out, so that's all I had)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes

Slather it on, being careful not to pat to hard, or the marniade would squirt out in disturbing ways.

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Slapped it on the newly built UDS... 12:21 PM

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... and By 1:00 pm, it rained... luckily, i remembered to put the window awning up, and it kept the UDS from getting wet and cooling off.
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At 1:44 pm Friday, Remote says meat is at 101 degrees, smoke at 210 and climbing slowly back up... signing out for now... more Q-view as it becomes available.
 
Looking good be sure to keep us updated on how the UDS does on its maiden smoke.
 
at 3:16, just about 3 hours in, temp has climbed up to 240, and I've closed off as much as I can as far as vents... meat is at 152 degrees.

Since this a half brisket, without the thick point, I don't think this is going to take 8 hours to get to temp... would I be right?



P.S. I love this remote thermometer thing... They had them on sale last night at Walmart, $11.00, should have bought another, I could monitor the drum temp from inside in the A/C too... it's 92 degrees outside with 65% humidity here.
 
Was stalled at about 170, I'm going to pull and wrap at 175...
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What it looked like at 170 I flipped it to put a crust on the top, it was still very juicy and wet. threw a couple of chicken breasts on just cuz.
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Slicing...
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Any ideas for keeping this moist? One end stayed nice and juicy after I sliced it, the other, kinda dried up
 
When it was finished. Did you wrap in foil then in towels and place into a cooler for 1 or 2 hrs? If not, try this. It will keep the food hot, and the juices will start flowing around in the meat.
 
It looks like you may have sliced it a bit too soon. You have a lot of juice in the bottom of your tray. It's important to let the meat rest for at least a half an hour, an hour is better, before slicing.

Bob
 
It was in the cooler for an hour and a half... I tried to wait 2 hours, but I was weak...

I think I might have pulled it off the drum a bit early, some of the less fatty slices were tough... no problem though, I took some of the marinade I had left, and boiled the tough slices with some onions for about an hour, came out tender and I made sammiches with it.
 
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