Brisket Camp in NOLA!!!

nolaegghead

Sorry about the a-hole bazillion terapixel pics.  Too lazy to reduce them down.

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Brett taking son for a ride on the "nola egghead" cargo bike....

SGH

@nolaegghead‌
He is no legend my friend. A myth maybe, but not a legend. I thank you for the compliments nonetheless.

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Mom watching bike ride...

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Hope everyone had high speed interwebz.....

Keely

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SGH

Keep the pics coming!

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dark, compared to outside 

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Mommykins

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band and people

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Hope you mobile users have good data plans....

SGH

Jumping off wifi

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TigerTony - thanks for all the help and the band referral, and kind words, brutha!

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sum frieeends of myern

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brother henapple.  4H - Hell of a hardworking, helpful humanoid.  (just not this very second)

nolaegghead

Sous vide brisket.  I forgot about it, was shooting for 165F, but it was up to 200F.  Two people said it was their favorite.

thetrim

Sounds like the true winner of the weekend was @SGH son.  He went from the "Idiot Son" to "Party Monster" 

Great recaps by everyone.  Sounds like something that with maintain Legend status for a very long time on the UnitOneHead Fourm

Mickey

One last time: Happy Birthday Carey, sorry I missed the MOST EPIC party ever.

yzzi

How did you sous vide a brisket? Smoke first then bath?

yzzi

Thanks for the picture with names so I can put a name to the face. Now I'm thinking about ditching the forum!

Botch

For some reason I hadn't clicked on this thread until yesterday during the football games, and had to read all (as of now) 32 pages.  Congrats to NOLA and others for pulling this off, looks like a fantastic time and hopefully a recurring event.

I've had the pleasure of meeting a lot of folks on other forums.  Been to LA twice and Atlanta to meet folks on my musician's forum (had some great jams in LA!), and I've met several folks from my motorcycle forums when they pass through town.

My Home Theater group, however, have hosted the most GTGs (Get-Togethers) and I've been to Houston and St. Louis, to spend a few days in different home theaters (lots of cooking and drinking there too) but "Bats", as we call him, started the ball rolling and he hosts an incredible, 4-day GTG every summer in his "Bat Cave" home theater; check it out:  Batcave 

I wouldn't have been able to make this Brisket school, but will sure try to be able to make the next one.  Forums become more "comfortable" when you get to meet some of the players face-to-face (as some of you have done at the Eggfests too) and I'm looking forward to the next one!  

:-bd

20stone

Howdy Eggers -

This is my first post, and thought that I would introduce myself here since I met so many of you at the Brisket Camp, and since I owe a few of you an apology.

The Introduction

Ms. Stone and I (pictured below) are from Houston, and met a number of you in Salado last spring.  We bought our BGE up in Chicago in '07, where it kept us deep in St. Louis ribs, pulled pork, tea smoked duck, turkey and paella.  However, when we moved back home to Texas, I knew I needed to get my brisket game together or I would be deported.  Thankfully, we met CenTex in Salado, and his "mistake" was the best brisket I had eaten up til then.  I got some good advice, and can now at least maintain residence home in Texas for awhile.

The apology 

Ms. Stone and I unwittingly converted (for a day, at least) CenTex to a Turboficianado.  It turns out that lakewade and Mr. and Ms. Tex had seen the best of New Orleans on Thursday night, but felt compelled to answer the bell again when Lisa and I turned up Friday night.  All I can say is, if you are in a bar called "Sazerac", you are going to drink a few Sazeracs, and we did more than our part to keep the New Orleans economy going.  None of us are twenty two anymore, and the alarm clocks were much quieter on Saturday morning than they might otherwise have been, forcing CenTex to blast furnace his briskets in unnatural ways.  So, sorry for that.

The op/ed

Wagyu is very, very nice, but it is cheating.  Those SRF briskets poured out of the cryo like a jello mold, and the only hard part was telling where to stop trimming as the fat transitioned to fat with a little meat in it.  Of course it was awesome.  CenTex (pictured below with his Turbogyu brisket) could have cut it with the back of the knife.  Those steers live the life of a Roman emperor (including the early death), being constantly fed and massaged.  I am glad I tried it, but I am going back to cheating just a little (buying Prime) and cooking low and slow, just as it is supposed to be.

Thanks for the fun

NOLA and Fleur thew a hell of a party.  We had a blast helping where we could, meeting everyone and eating more than we should have.  I would love to see us do it again next year.

Hotch

@20Stone It was great meeting you guys in NOLA.

SGH

@thetrim‌
Just for clarification. The son that started the TP thread was not Party Monster. That was my youngest son Jesse. Party Monster is my oldest son. Scottie Jr. And they are both blooming idiots. I love them both dearly but they are idiots nonetheless!!!!

nolaegghead

@SGH - Did Party Monster enjoy the ride in the Cayman?  I was giving him a ride and tore around the corner up by the levee at one point.  Felt bad because a lady with sink eye yelled "slow down!".  I actually was doing the 25 mph speed limit, but at the point she saw me, I was doing it through a 90 degree turn.  I'm normally very careful not to be a douche bag, esp in my own hood where people know me.

henapple

The lovely and gracious @FleurdeLirious‌ ....

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@20stone‌ ...good to see you again. Glad you're finally on the forum.

anton

@nolaegghead, @SGH, @henapple, @CEN-TEXsmoker , thank you for letting me live vicariously through you guys from here in Calif, looks like a wonderful time was had, very impressed with SGH's skills and all other's as well, it was fun to watch from here!

SGH

@anton‌
Thank you for the kind words my friend. Wish you could have been there

SGH

@henapple‌
Thanks for the kind gift brother Apple. It's much appreciated. Working on your chickens tonight my friend.