Brisket - 2nd attempt - SUCCESS (& q-view)!

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jhilla68

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Oct 10, 2012
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Warren, MI
Some of you folks may remember my semi-recent thread about my first brisket, botched attempt.  With more reading and some lessons learned, I gave it another try yesterday.  Also, I got to try out Todd's AMNPS that I got for Christmas. 

I'll have to play around with it some more, but I regrettably only got about 4 hours of smoke time out of the almost fully loaded smoker box in my MES30.  It was windy yesterday and I did have the chip loader out a couple inches.  Next time, I'll ensure it's fully lit and probably leave the tray and loader alone.  We'll see.

Regardless, here's some pics and a brief timeline of events:

Got up at 5:30 am to get things going.  Rubbed the brisket, warmed up the smoker, and got the AMNPS lit:



Getting going with AMNPS well-lit:


I was well-behaved and didn't do too much checking.  Something I did different was to foil at 158* IT, in addition to cooking fat side UP.  Here are some finished product pics....pulled for slicing at 185* (where it sat for 1.5 hours), as we were starving and the toothpick seemed to slide in alright:


Flash pic to show juiciness.  The other pics show the true color of the finished product:




A huge thank you to this site, because I wouldn't have been able to prepare such a great product without all of your guys' help!
 
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