First try for Pastrami

[ob2689]

Friend built a smoker and brought it over for me to try out.  I decided to try and make pastrami.

Another view

The rub

The corn beef

Corn beef with the rub on ready for the smoker

The thin blue smoke

Meat on the smoker

Ready to come off

Off the smoker cooling down

 

[chef jimmyj]

Looks great but how about a little detail...How hot? How long? What was the final IT? What was in the Rub?...JJ

 

[ironhorse07]

Looks great but how about a little detail...How hot? How long? What was the final IT? What was in the Rub?...JJ

X2

 

[africanmeat]

It is not the smoker it is the smoke master

 

[alelover]

Looks great but how about a sliced shot. Did you cure it or was it store bought corned beef? What was in the rub?

 

[ob2689]

Here is a sliced shot

 

[ob2689]

I used packaged corn beef. soaked it in water for a couple of hours the night before to remove some of the salt, then covered with plastic over night.  Then put a rub on that had brown sugar, black, pink, white, green peppercorns, mustard seeds and minced garlic.  Cooking temp tried to keep it around 225 for 5 hours internal temp 176