Myron or Aaron

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lemans

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So .... Myron the winnest man in bar b cue trims all the silverskin from the point and trims the fat cap.He injects with Minors beef stock and water and then applies his rub .. puts the meat on the grate for 2 hours ( until he gets the color he wants) and pulls it off
And put it in a covered foil pan and the back in the smoker until the point hits 205 and then he lets it rest in the pan covered for at least 2 hours.. like him or hate him he knows his shit..
Now Arron Franklin ... He has the best Bar b cue place on the planet.. His brisket. .. well. It's better that sex!!! ( ok I said it)
He trims his packer to about 1/2- 3/4 inch on the fat cap, trims big hunks of fat from the meat an trims off anything that is too thin ( on the fla) and does a little trimming on the point..No injection just salt and pepper. Onto the smoker, after 2 hours spritz with apple cider vinegar every over.. after 5 hours he sees if the color is a rich mohogany and then wraps it in I waxed butcher paper and back in the smoker until
It feels pliable ( no thermometer) and then he unwraps
The meat and sees if it's soft and juggly.
Could be 5 hours or 7 hours...
He then wraps it back in the paper an lets it rest for a couple of hours.. heaven on earth.

Now for the question:
Which method do you use? Or do you do something else? I know we have been through this already but it like to stir the pot!!! Lol
Ps. Both pit gods use similar high grade meat ( although Myron uses Wagyu) both the same weight cook temp 275-300
 
I trim the sticky fat off, remove a little from the cap if it's extremely thick only, then rub it, stick it in a 225-250 pit and let it rock on until it's done.

Nothing fancy here, just smoked brisket.
 
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Point to CB.  In the Cajun world, Franklin and Mixon would be Emeril and his restaurants:  good food, but a lot of glitz and glam and show.  Gimme Prudhomme all day long:  not splashy, not glammy, just better food.

Best barbecue on the planet?  Franklin's?  Good, but Snow's in Lexington runs laps around it, and they're only open on Saturdays,  So does Louie Mueller's in Taylor, Black's, Kreuz's & Smitty's in Lockhart, City Market in Luling, & Fargo's in Bryan if you're looking for those in the barbecue belt.  Get out into the small towns and see what longtime (some a hundred years in the make) barbecue is all about.  And don't make a greenhorn mistake by asking for sauce if you don't see it:  you may as well tell the pitmaster that his food is trash. 
 
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That's a good list of places, When the wife and I do our bike trip we will definitely have to look some of these up. I can't wait to try some....
 
Point to CB.  In the Cajun world, Franklin and Mixon would be Emeril and his restaurants:  good food, but a lot of glitz and glam and show.  Gimme Prudhomme all day long:  not splashy, not glammy, just better food.

Best barbecue on the planet?  Franklin's?  Good, but Snow's in Lexington runs laps around it, and they're only open on Saturdays,  So does Louis Mueller's in Taylor, Black's, Kreuz's & Smitty's in Lockhart, City Market in Luling, & Fargo's in Bryan if you're looking for those in the barbecue belt.  Get out into the small towns and see what longtime (some a hundred years in the make) barbecue is all about.  And don't make a greenhorn mistake by asking for sauce if you don't see it:  you may as well tell the pitmaster that his food is trash. 

Good joints, and you're right, most of them don't have a lot of sauce on the tables, it's usually in a bottle over by the straws and napkins.
 
I do mine a couple different ways...I do major trimming though on all of them. I do it differently if I am going to wrap or not. If wrapping, I normally cut the fat cap completely off and place some of the fat in a pan above the brisket with holes in the bottom and let it baste until I wrap then I mix up a wrapping juice to go in the foil. My wife doesn't like fat so sometimes I'll trim part like this for her. If not wrapping typically I'll inject it, cut some slits in fat cap, throw it on fat side up and forget about it till its done. I'm doing one tonight and it was the very last one in the store, choice grade flat not as thick as I like so I'm experimenting with new things. Trying new rub, injecting, wrapping, new wrapping juice. It may be a complete failure but that's part of the fun of smoking. I usually get prime full packers...I'd never try something like this the first time with one of those, lol.
 
Charlie, you hit the nail on the head:  these aren't restaurants, they're joints where it all began.  Just plain, simple barbecue (not BBQ, not Bar-B-Que, etc.), the way it was meant to be.  Pure barbecue.  My nonagenarian dad grew up in Taylor, and we made many trips back there for eats at Louie's and the Taylor Cafe, not to mention other joints in the region.  Hell, he still will jump in the car (as frightening as that may be), leave the Tomball area NW of Houston, and drive over there for lunch somewhere. Slabs of meat, cheddar cheese, raw onion, pickles, and white bread:  all served on butcher paper with only a knife.  That's the real deal.

Anyone wants a good read on a lot of real deal Texas barbecue and its history, grab a copy of Robb Walsh's "Legends of Texas Barbecue".  It will give an idea of what it's all about.  There's even a recipe in there from an inmate in Huntsville's max security prison unit--no joke.
 
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