Wagyu Gold Brisket

[Thomas The Tank]

I’m beyond excited to smoke this Wagyu Gold Brikset from Snake River. Couldn’t pass up the offer from a friend that had a hook up. $50 for. 10.6lber. with awesome marbling. He gets Wagyu Black all the time for a unbelievable price and I might just start sourcing from him.

I am by no means a master trimmer and this is only my 5th smoked brisket. Smoking it around 1am for some company tomorrow evening along with some chuck roast burnt ends.

#hopeidontscrewitup

 

[motocrash]

Beefalicious.That is gonna be incredible.

 

[drunkenmeatfist]

I bet it will taste way goo

 

[pineywoods]

Congrats that is a heck of a deal. I have never had Wagyu anything and am going to have to try some. Personally when trimming I like to leave about a quarter inch of fat and get rid of the rest. When I say get rid of I mean vacuum sealing it and freezing for use with venison grinding at a later date.
Good luck with the smoke take lots of qview I look forward to seeing this one

 

[weedeater]

Great looking piece of meat and even better price! We should all be so lucky to have friends like that. I’ll be watching!

Weedeater

 

[one eyed jack]

Congratulations on having a source for such a beautiful brisket. I know that I would give it a shot if I had access to it.

Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

 

[Thomas The Tank]

There was a big debacle with it early this morning, but I think I got it under control. I put in at 1am with the amazen tray going. Looked at my temp at 4:30ish. And it was 168. I quickly panicked and when to check on it and my mes was rolling a lot of smoke. I opened it up and the whole pellet maze was glowing red and smoking.

So... I took the entire pellet tray out and dumped out what I had and relit. I turned the brisket around and probed in a different spot and the temp was more like 145ish.

Seems like everything is under control now it was at 157 at 6:45 and the tray was doing ok.

My guess is some grease dripped in the pellets and obviously was probed in a fatty spot?

Hope all turns out well, we shall see.

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Damn I’m jealous! Post some pics when you are done!

 

[SmokinAl]

Man I've never even seen a Wagyu brisket, much less tasted one!
But it is on my bucket list!!
Al

 

[Bearcarver]

I can't wait to see the final pics of this!!

Tips: Don't fill your AMNPS higher than about 3/8" from the top, to avoid fire jumping rows.
And keep something (Foil) a few inches above the AMNPS to protect it from Drippings, yet not affect the smoking pellets.

Bear

 

[HalfSmoked]

Awesome find for that price. Waiting for finish photos. Hope it turns out well for you. Lucky catch on the amps fire.

Warren

 

[Thomas The Tank]

I can't wait to see the final pics of this!!

Tips: Don't fill your AMNPS higher than about 3/8" from the top, to avoid fire jumping rows.
And keep something (Foil) a few inches above the AMNPS to protect it from Drippings, yet not affect the smoking pellets.

Bear

Duely noted on the tip- Filling the AMNPS too full might be my issue cause it jumps rows all the time. I used the mes cold smoke kit before for all my smokes and recently got the AMNPS. Third time using it and have not got anywhere near 11-12 hrs out of it. I have had to refill it in the middle of the smokes.

I do have a foil pan in the rack above to catch dripping, I just don’t think I had it over far enough to fully cover the pellets.

 

[Bearcarver]

Yup---Filling it too full can make it jump rows.
Also So can having it too close to the heat source, like a heating element.

Bear

 

[flatbroke]

@waygu tim

 

[banderson7474]

Hmmm kinda quiet?

 

[motocrash]

Hmmm kinda quiet?

 

[SmokinLogs]

Nice looking slab of cow you got there, I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product!

 

[waygu tim]

wow

 

[Thomas The Tank]

Ok everyone here are he finished pics, sorry it took so long but the brisket was phenomenal and melted in everyone’s mouth. We also had chuck roast burnt ends, twice baked potatoes, bacon + jalapeño corn bread, dutches beans, cole slaw, peach and apple jalapeño bbq sauce.

 

[Thomas The Tank]

Yup---Filling it too full can make it jump rows.
Also So can having it too close to the heat source, like a heating element.

Bear

I have an mes gen 2 and I removed the water pan and put it over the opening on the slanted drip tray. Is there a better place to put it?