Reruns

[ddave]

I was looking through my Photobucket albums to see what I had done since October. Nothing really spectacular but I was kind of fond of my first all night brisket smoke. So I thought I'd post some highlights.

Here is the specimen . . .



12.5 pound packer rubbed with Jeff's rub and ready to go.



I put it on the smoker at about 9 pm on a Friday night. Smoked it with hickory and cherry. Smoker was running about 240ish. Was popping in and out of SMF giving the occasional update. That's part of the fun of the all nighter.

Can't prove it by the post times but it really was over night.



After about 6 hours (I think) I started mopping it hourly with a mixture of 1 cup cider vinegar, 1 cup water, 1 cup Jack Daniels, 1/8 cup butter and 1/3 cup of Jeff's rub. After about 14 hours it hit 165° and was ready to go in the foil pan and be covered.



Three hours later, it hit about 200° so I wrapped it in a towel and put it in a cooler for about an hour. An hour later, I took it out of the cooler. Here are the finished pics.







It was darn good, definitely worth the time, and I will definitely do another. I am planning on doing one on the drum pretty soon. Next time I will have to pay closer attention and separate the flat from the point and maybe do some burnt ends. If you've never done an all nighter, they are a lot of fun.

Oh, and since I was up anyway, I also did a fattie for breakfast. Nothing fancy, just Jimmy Dean and some four-cheese Mexican blend but I tried the "bacon weave" for the first time.



Here is a shot on the smoker. . .



and sliced on the plate.



Now I like bacon as much as the next guy, but next time I'm going to set the bacon wrapped fattie closer to the firebox end to render a little more of that fat away. It was just a little bit much.

Thanks for looking.

Dave

 

[eman]

Dave,
i have found that the wife and i both like the fatties w/o the bacon wrap better than with.

 

[davidmcg]

Yup I learned that trick with the fatie after a couple of tries. They do tend to be a little greasy if your not careful. But I think you can pretty easily tell ya did at night time. I am getting a little older now, the all nighters don't excite me like they used to. Doesn't even seem like stuff on the radio is as good as it used to be. I guess thats why they have MP3 players. That brisket does look pretty darn good. Last few I have done I haven't seperated at all. Oh well, you smoke them your way and thats good enough. Great things happen when you dig through photobucket.