St. Pattys Day

[bassman10lb]

Looking to smoke a corned beef brisket,my first,.any good ideas.I have a gas water smoker.Any tips would be helpful.Thanks! 

 

[roadkill cafe]

Welcome Bassman!! Glad to see another South Floridian here. Just north of you in Beerfield Beach. What are you looking to make with your corned beef brisky? Pastrami or just a smoked brisket?

Steve

 

[chef jimmyj]

You can go a couple different ways. Straight up Smoked with your choice of rub or a more traditional Pastrami. Here is the way I do mine... 

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/121221/corned-point-to-pastrami

I see this is your first post so...Welcome to the SMF Family. Please go over to Roll Call and give us some info on you, your equipment and exprience. Good Luck...JJ

 

[dj mishima]

If you are going with a store bought corned beef brisket made for boiling, I highly recommend soaking it before smoking it.

I did one and soaked it for 4 hours. http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/136558/slow-cooked-corned-beef-vs-smoked-corned-beef   It can probably benefit from an overnight soak(changing water.)  I thought mine turned out too salty and dry.  It was almost jerky like in retrospect compared to the brisket I just smoked or even the one I boiled that same day.

 

[bassman10lb]

Roadkill,just looking to smoke a corned beef brisket for st. patty.Should i put on rub,marinate or just put it in a foil pan with water and let it go for five or six hours.Any thoughts on that?Thanks for the reply!

 

[rdknb]

I second soaking it, it will be to salty other wise IMO.   As for rub I would remake and not add salt.

 

[roadkill cafe]

Bassman,

Sorry I hadn't gotten back to you. I was gone the weekend to Ft. Myers for a BBQ competition. Although I know this is too late, I always turn my Corned Beef Briskets into Pastrami. I definitely soak them with water changes. Here's a couple threads on it. Again, sorry I wasn't able to get back to you sooner. Hope yours turned out good. Here's the links to the threads, one is mine and one is KathrynN's:

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/119550/first-corned-beef-pastramis-w-q-view

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/133528/1st-smoke-of-2013-and-i-think-i-take-too-many-pics

There are a lot of others here on the forum. Just use the search bar at the top. The best thing about smoking meats is you can usually eat your mistakes. At least I do.