Brisket questions and help needed

JM3

I put on a 9.5# brisket at 3 PM this afternoon. Dome temp has been between 225 and 250 all day. Daisy wheel is currently almost all the way closed and the bottom vent is open about an 1/8 of an inch. Temp started at 35 at 3 PM and now at 8:30 PM is at 170. There has been no plateau at all, just a steady climb. Every other time I've done a brisket it has been about 2 hours per pound and it looks like this one may be done way too soon to be hot at lunch tomorrow. Any thoughts? What is the best way to reheat brisket???[p]HELP![p]Thanks,
John

Charles in SC

JM3,
I would not slice it until after it is reheated tommorrow at lunch. Cut into about 3-4 oz chunk, heat in a microwave(2-3 min) then slice. When I freeze cooked brisket I cut it into 3-4 oz hunks and wrap individually in saran type film. The smaller the pieces the faster it freezer burns.
I have kept it frozen over 6 months with no problem.
I am far from an eggspert but I have cooked tons of brisket.
My .02 worth

Nature Boy

Yo John
170 internal is still not too late to back off a bit on your cooking temps, and hold it there or even let it drop internally to 165 or whatever. Then again, sounds like a long way to lunch tomorrow. [p]goin on a limb here as I have not been quite this far ahead, but if you can slow it down enough to hold it in the plateau (155-170) for 6 more hours, then let it work up into the 190s an hour or two after that, you are lookin at 6 or 6:30 am. 5 hours resting in the cooler is not crazy, and you should be in for a serious lunch.[p]Just what I would do. Cooling that thing off at this point, and reheating just doesn't seem right.[p]just some ideas.
Good luck, and let us know what happened.
Chris

Citizen Q

JM3,
Hope I'm not chiming in too late on this one. Did you check to make sure that your probe was positioned right? That steady rapid climb might be due to the probe being in too far or maybe at a downward angle and you could be reading temps from very close to the surface of the meat.[p]Cheers,
C~Q

JM

Citizen Q,[p] I checked the probe and even inserted a second thermometer in a different area of the brisket. They are only 1-3 degrees different.[p]John

JM3

I think the thunderstoms that rolled through Augusta helped. They cooled the egg off and the plateau for this brisket was at about 178 degrees. I ended up pulling the brisket off at 5:30 this morning. I'll let you know how it taste after lunch.[p]John