Brisket Getting Close - Which Temp?

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• TexAg87 Posts: 22

  July 2012

  Just checked it with the Thermapen. This is first low-n-slow I've done since I got it. I have internal temperatures ranging all the way from ~145 to ~175. Interestingly, the higher temps are on the point end, in the thickest part, and the lower temps are at the thin end of the flat. So, which temp should I go with?

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• Duganboy Posts: 1,118

  July 2012

  I don't know because I have a large.  I put brisket on at midnight with the Guru set at 225.  Got up at 8 am and it was sitting dead on 225 with temp of brisket at 160 

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• The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 17,326

  July 2012

  Totally normal. the point is full of fat and fat cooks way faster than muscle. Always take the temp the the thickest part of the FLAT or you will have some chewy brisket flat. The point will be done hours before the flat but will stay moist because of the fat content.

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• TexAg87 Posts: 22

  July 2012

  Totally normal. the point is full of fat and fat cooks way faster than muscle. Always take the temp the the thickest part of the FLAT or you will have some chewy brisket flat. The point will be done hours before the flat but will stay moist because of the fat content.

  Cool. I've really been flying blind the first couple of briskets I've done, so now learning to use the data from the Thermapen is a new wrinkle. (A welcome wrinkle.)

  
  

  When you're putting a probe in a brisket, where do you place it? I angled it in from the side, trying to avoid the point and keep it in the middle of a thicker portion.

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• The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 17,326

  July 2012

  Totally normal. the point is full of fat and fat cooks way faster than muscle. Always take the temp the the thickest part of the FLAT or you will have some chewy brisket flat. The point will be done hours before the flat but will stay moist because of the fat content.

  Cool. I've really been flying blind the first couple of briskets I've done, so now learning to use the data from the Thermapen is a new wrinkle. (A welcome wrinkle.)

  
  

  When you're putting a probe in a brisket, where do you place it? I angled it in from the side, trying to avoid the point and keep it in the middle of a thicker portion.

  That's the right spot. The thick part of the flat under the point (assuming you have the point on top).

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• TexAg87 Posts: 22

  July 2012

  That's the right spot. The thick part of the flat under the point (assuming you have the point on top).

  Well, I don't have it beneath the point, but down the length of the brisket slightly from the point where the flat is still pretty thick. (The point is on top in the egg.) Do you try to get the probe in the flat beneath the point?

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• The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 17,326

  July 2012

  That's the right spot. The thick part of the flat under the point (assuming you have the point on top).

  Well, I don't have it beneath the point, but down the length of the brisket slightly from the point where the flat is still pretty thick. (The point is on top in the egg.) Do you try to get the probe in the flat beneath the point?

  you are good. You just want it to slide in and out like butter in a few thick parts of that flat. temp should be around 190-195 at that point

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