Hold on.. you smoke the brisket until you reach a color you like . Dark Mohogany.. then you wrap it in butcher paper until IT hit 205. Then you let it rest an hour or two.. 2 hour smoke? You might as well cook it in the oven!!!
Yea but i use foil instead
But still its tough, do u think i should marinate it with with acid like vinegar for few hours?? To increase my chancea to be tender
so for say a 10-12lb packer how long would I smoke it for and what temp? I plan on putting it on the smoker at 12am at night and I was hoping to pull it around 12pm lunchtime.Ok, after a very quick look at your smoker, just get a brisket. You should be able to fit just about any brisket on there. I recommend whole packers instead of flats because they just come out better. It looks like you have a diffuser so I wouldn't worry too much about placement. Cap up or cap down is a matter of preference but I prefer cap up because I burned myself once going cap down. As far as wood (pellets) I'm a firm believer in burn what you have. Yes, you can use different woods as any other ingredient but it's really just different flavors of good. At the end of the day, the only two things you have to do is put it on the smoker and wait for it to be done.
Lance
no I plan on serving it for dinner? Say around 3-4?Are you trying to serve it a noon? Temp and time are dependent upon each other. Also, do you plan to wrap it? Every hunk of meat is different. They stall at different temps and for different durations of time. For a 10-12lb packer, Twelve hours could be cutting it close. I've also heard that pellet smokers don't put out much smoke at higher temps but I've never used one. So let's say this, put it on at 9pm @225. At 5am wrap it in a double layer of HD foil. Check IT periodically and when it hits 200 start probing. Once you can probe it anywhere and the probe slides in which no resistance, pull it off, wrap it in a towel and put it in a dry cooler till about a half hour before you want to slice.
in your opinion do you wrap? If say I didn't wrap it how much longer does it usually take?Ok, then midnight should be good if you're wrapping. Wrap around 8am and you should be fine. If you want to go unwrapped, I would start earlier as it can stall for hours at lower temps. The last thing you want to do is pull it early. If you haven't read this whole thread, almost every single failure was due to pulling it early.
Lance
ok so I'll take your suggestion and wrap it. Thank you sir!I can't answer that. I've always wrapped and I've never cared to fix what ain't broke. Not wrapping will add more time but how much will depend on a number of variables, some of which can't be accounted for.