New Year’s Eve Wagyu brisket = money

[pnolanb]

Finally let this guy see the light and had at it with a nice water bath followed by a 4hr smoke @ 225. Tell ya what, it sure makes for a better night’s rest not having to keep the stick burner rolling all night. I go back and forth with start to finish smoke and sous vide w/ smoke finish. I like both cooking approaches equally. What it truly comes down to, is my amount of time to spare...

No smoke ring, no pink salt, no problem for me. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. Although, the long smoke and the appearance is definitely appealing to the eye and is a part of the reward of a long cook.

I did one for a friend to take home and finish and one for my house. 24hr submersion for him and 48for mine.

I have done plenty of prime briskets this way that have always turned out the way I wanted. I started leaning towards a 72hr soak, but this middle of the road, 48hr, might have changed my mind on that. Plus, my circulator might have a longer life span now.

Being that I am new to the forum, I’m not seeing the option to upload video, which is the only end product evidence that I have... guess ya gotta take me by my word that it turned out spot on :)

 

[Chasdev]

Nothing can beat dry oak smoke and while I like the idea of less work to cook a brisket, I gots to have me some serious bark and smoke flavor.
I sou vie steaks and pork chops but that's grilling not smoking.

 

[JckDanls 07]

I see you say 225` for the smoker... Just curious what temp you ran the SV bath at ? What was your final IT at after smoking it ??

 

[pnolanb]

Nothing can beat dry oak smoke and while I like the idea of less work to cook a brisket, I gots to have me some serious bark and smoke flavor.
I sou vie steaks and pork chops but that's grilling not smoking.

I hear ya. My other drive on sous vide is that my smoker is as big as an SUV. 500 gal propane tank conversion. Although, I have definitely fired it up more times than I remember for small group dinners...

 

[pnolanb]

I see you say 225` for the smoker... Just curious what temp you ran the SV bath at ? What was your final IT at after smoking it ??

Hey there, I do diff temps for different lengths. I run my circulator on Celsius. 24hr @ 68°, 48hr @ 65° and 72hr @ 63°. You let it sit on the smoker long enough to build up bark(as best you can). Like mentioned from someone else here, you can’t quite replicate the long smoke bark. Honestly though, you can pull it @ 125° or let it go up to 160°, prob higher if you wanted to. I do the higher temp for longer rest after pulling it.