Brisket search

[Joetee]

I've recently moved to the Philippines.

Trying to find meat I'm familiar with.
Brisket sold here in grocery stores are all cut up into large pieces.

I asked the meat department for a full brisket. They carried out what looked like 1/4 cow. I have no idea what different meats were on that. To much for me to handle. So the search continues.

 

[Chasdev]

So buy a nice large point end and call it a day!
Or a large flat or perhaps both.
In fact doing them separated is a legit strategy due to the different in thicknesses.

 

[schlotz]

We prefer a 3 or 4 bone plate rib (ie short ribs aka Dino Bones) from the chuck section for smoking. Same great flavor as brisket but IMO easier to do especially for 2 people.

 

[texomakid]

The brisket is located in the chest area. I think of it like a breast of a cow. If my memory serves me correctly the packing house I worked at in the mid 80's our beef was cut in half and hung in the cooler. We pulled then out 1/2 at a time and the first thing we did was cut the half into a quarter. The first thing our main butcher did was cut the brisket off of every front 1/4 and he did that with a standard boning knife.

It can be challenging trying to find American style cuts in other places around the world. They're are a lot of Youtube videos that you could show a local butcher that might help in your search for a whole packer brisket. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[zwiller]

I actually prefer it broke down. I take a whole packer cut into 4. Make corned beef from flat, pastrami from point. Middle 2 sections with both flat and point get smoked. chopsaw gave me the idea, it's genius. Whole packer need to be trimmed ALOT to do correctly and is really wasteful unless you make sausage. This is one of the middle sections. Yield of both was around 8lbs from memory. Since you break the middle section in 2 it cooks in about half the time. This was like 8 hrs. No overnight worry etc. If you can get those middle sections I say go for it. There is a seam of fat in the middle so should should be able to spot them.