Brisket - Keep warm or Cool and reheat

[daveverdo]

I plan to smoke a brisket overnight. I hope for it to be done by 8:00-9:00 in the morning. We won't eat until 7:00 or so that night.

What should I do with the brisket while I am floating in the pool drinking beer all day?

 

[SmokinAl]

Why not just cut the pit temp down a bit & let it smoke longer or start it later? How big is the brisket & is it a full packer, or just a flat?
Al

 

[daveverdo]

Why not just cut the pit temp down a bit & let it smoke longer or start it later? How big is the brisket & is it a full packer, or just a flat?
Al

We aren't eating at my place. I have to bring it to a friends.

Full packer.

 

[SmokinAl]

It will keep hot in a cooler double wrapped in foil & wrapped in towels or a blanket for several hours.
Al

 

[Chasdev]

If you pull it at 190 wrapped and covered in towels or newspaper in an ice chest, it will continue to slowly cook all day and be hot and tender when you peel back the wrap.
Do NOT cook to 200/205 and then place in cooler wrapped and covered, it will overcook.
If you do cook it to 200/205 then place in a 160 degree oven double wrapped until time to hit the road.

 

[Fueling Around]

@Chasdev and @SmokinAl pointed to a traditional brisket cook.

I did one in a Katz style a couple years ago.
It was a flat (don't remember size, but it fed 5 hungry people with left overs) that I smoked and mostly cooked and cooled.
I steamed it for 4 hours on serving day. Perfectly cooked. I was very impressed with a steam finish
You don't have enough time for a cool, but a steam finish is possible.

 

[Hijack73]

It will keep hot in a cooler double wrapped in foil & wrapped in towels or a blanket for several hours.
Al

Hot hot hot!!! I did a big smoke for a wedding one time and was part of the wedding too. I pulled butts at about 9-10AM and dropped them into a regular igloo cooler. We started feeding folks about 7 and they were still too hot to hand pull. If he preheats the cooler with a big pan of boiling water he'll keep even more heat in because there won't be any thermal loss heating up the plastic.
People underestimate this trick :)

Keeps hot things hot as well as cold things cold!

 

[daveverdo]

Thanks all. Sounds like a plan.

 

[daveverdo]

What about burnt ends??