First Smoked Brisket

[Dirty Nails]

I’m new to the forum and new to smoking food, but on New Year’s Eve I seasoned and wrapped this 10 pound brisket. On New Year’s Day I got up at 0500 and attempted my first smoke job on my new Char Griller Texas Trio smoker grill. I have to say, I closely followed the instructional steps from several of the posts on the forum. I got the indirect heat bay stabilized around 225-230, loaded the brisket, had a water pan under the meat, maintained a temperature between 220-240, had a steady stream of mostly blue/some gray smoke, spritzed the brisket with a trace of lemon juice & water combo once per hour for 10 hours, and when it was done I let it sit for 30 minutes prior to cutting. It was absolutely amazing! It fed 8 of us and we had a couple pounds of leftovers…which were still fantastic two or three days later. I didn’t think to take photos of it upon cutting, but it had a great bark and smoke ring. Thanks for all of the helpful instructions!

 

[Electric88]

Looks great!

 

[HalfSmoked]

Nice first time.

Warren

 

[sandyut]

Good job! Nice to get a successful on on the first one! my first was ok...took several tries to dial it in...I also started smoking them before I found this totally awesome site.

 

[Bytor]

I’m new to the forum and new to smoking food, but on New Year’s Eve I seasoned and wrapped this 10 pound brisket. On New Year’s Day I got up at 0500 and attempted my first smoke job on my new Char Griller Texas Trio smoker grill. I have to say, I closely followed the instructional steps from several of the posts on the forum. I got the indirect heat bay stabilized around 225-230, loaded the brisket, had a water pan under the meat, maintained a temperature between 220-240, had a steady stream of mostly blue/some gray smoke, spritzed the brisket with a trace of lemon juice & water combo once per hour for 10 hours, and when it was done I let it sit for 30 minutes prior to cutting. It was absolutely amazing! It fed 8 of us and we had a couple pounds of leftovers…which were still fantastic two or three days later. I didn’t think to take photos of it upon cutting, but it had a great bark and smoke ring. Thanks for all of the helpful instructions!View attachment 430393

Looks great! I have had my Chargriller 5050 with a SFB for almost 6 years now and it is really great. I have done some mods to the smoker portion of it, but it has served me well. That thing is very versatile.