Found a caution here about time until cooking after injection(?)

[Tallbald]

Still so much to learn. I was again researching threads here about beef brisket and a caution caught my eye. I cannot find it again though and wonder if I misread something. It seemed it cautioned to allow no more than X number of hours until getting the IT up to a certain temp after injecting. For safety reasons I believe. If that's right have I been risking illness injecting say, pork butts the night before smoking and leaving them in my frige overnight? What about beef? I fear I may have missed something very important in the smoking prep stages in all my reading. Sure appreciate help and teaching here. Don.

 

[old sarge]

I inject shortly before placing meat in smoker. Because I jacquard the meat, the broth I inject slowly runs out of all the holes so I wait till the last minute.

 

[daveomak]

Injecting cold marinade into cold meat and storing in the refer... pathogens aren't inclined to grow in that environment..
Then the meat should reach 140 ish within 4 hours... The injected meat cannot be treated as if it were whole muscle.. You have added bacteria to the center of the meat.. It shouldn't be cooked rare or med. rare.. 140--145 internal temp would be the way to go... or higher...

 

[Tallbald]

Thanks folks. I decided to just use the SPOG rub. Mercy this one had a lot of hard fat that had to be trimmed. Maybe is the normal amount and I'm not used to it though. Hope I trimmed it correctly. Lots of marbling throughout the flat. Try using my interpretation of advise/check for success/ adjust my method with guidance from experienced folks/try again. Hate the amount of waste though. Will cook the fat for our dogs. Our Boxer has cancer and heart problem. Hard to keep weight on our beloved baby. She can use the fat energy during what's left of her days. All three of our dogs are indoor dogs. Boxer, Standard Poodle, American Randombred. All rescues too. They love my new meat smoking hobby too.
I will keep a watch for chuck roast on sale. I've done two of those with great success. Sliced and frozen until needed, they make a wonderful sandwich with rye bread. Sorry. I'm rambling. Thanks again. Don.

 

[daveomak]

Sorry to hear about the Boxer...

 

[Tallbald]

Yes. She, as are our others, is a gem. Penny and I fostered litters for our local shelter for several years. Our Boxer's name is "Ruger" and she's on Elavil for a brain tumor with behavior changes, med for thyroid troubles, Lasix as a diuretic, and a heart pill. She gets her meds in a peanut butter smeared vanilla wafer "sandwich each day, and Winnie(Standard Poodle) and "Hank" (American Randombred) get just the peanut butter and wafers at the same time. Like grade school, everyone gets a treat or nobody does LOL. Don.

 

[GaryHibbert]

Yes. She, as are our others, is a gem. Penny and I fostered litters for our local shelter for several years. Our Boxer's name is "Ruger" and she's on Elavil for a brain tumor with behavior changes, med for thyroid troubles, Lasix as a diuretic, and a heart pill. She gets her meds in a peanut butter smeared vanilla wafer "sandwich each day, and Winnie(Standard Poodle) and "Hank" (American Randombred) get just the peanut butter and wafers at the same time. Like grade school, everyone gets a treat or nobody does LOL. Don.

Real sorry to hear about Ruger. I know how hard that is. One of the two sister Labs we got at 8 weeks, 9 years ago, develoloped bone cancer in her jaw. We gave her the best for as long as she had good quality of life. Addy was Miss Linda's dog and she still misses her greatly.
Gary

 

[Tallbald]

Well I smoked the brisket today and I think it did well. Not as good as you folks with so much wonderful experience, but tomorrow will tell. It's resting in towels not.
I trimmed about 2 pounds of fat off the meat last night. Hated to toss it. I cooked it all in a stock pot to crispy brown then drained it and asked Ruger Winnie and Hank if they wanted to try some. They said "well.... yeah daddy!" They thought it was great. The rest is now stored in a sealed empty coffee can in the frige to be doled out daily. Ruger can use the fat energy as she has trouble keeping on any weight.
Don.

 

[daveomak]

I've just been reading up on Blackstrap molasses and all the minerals and nutrients is has... I know my neighbor adds it to his calf feed.. He's got some mighty fine looking black cows... Tops in the country..