And Thus It Was.

SGH

@Eggcelsior‌
The 2 breakers I had at Nola's were a 12" and a 14".

buzd504

Excellent explanation, thank you brother @SGH.

SGH

@Eggcelsior‌
This is open to some debate but usually if you have 2 equally trained meat cutters, one using a breaker and one using a bull nose. The one using the breaking knife will turn out more production and more "even and uniform" cuts of meat.

Eggcelsior

Thanks. I actually do more push cutting since I use Japanese steel(it's shaped for that)

I know that the blades were bigger, I was just trying to continue the joke

thetrim

@SGH What is best for breaking down wings?  Those puny little joints don't take alot but I thought a 14" cimeter would work???  What do you think????

SGH

@Eggcelsior‌
There is one time that I do prefer the bull nose over the breaker. We slaughter live goats. I can cut a full grown love goats head clean off with one pass due to the forward weight of the bull nose knife. The goat never even knows what happens. I can cut his head off and have it in my left hand in less than 1 second. This is the only time that I prefer the bull nose. It is a excellent beheading knife when slaughtering live animals.

SGH

@thetrim‌
No brother trim. The breaker is far to large for this task. Overkill times 10. The best poultry knife on the market is a 3 1/2 inch Victorinox poultry knife. It's what I use for deboning and making my stuffed chickens. The massive breaking knife is way overkill my friend. I know 3 1/2 sounds small but consider the target. It's honestly the best poultry knife out they right now.

SGH

@thetrim‌ If you want one knife to do all poultry work and the best sheep knife that you could possibly ask for then I recommend and use: Victorinox Boning Knife. 5" Semi Flexible straight blade. You do not want a curved boning knife. You also don't want the "stiff" or "flexible" blade. You want the semi flexible knife. It will almost process poultry for you. And what it does to sheep and goat is unbelievable. It stands alone and unchallenged in this arena. As a sheep knife it has no equal or peer my friend.

buzd504

thetrim said:

@SGH What is best for breaking down wings?  Those puny little joints don't take alot but I thought a 14" cimeter would work???  What do you think????

Poultry shears, IMO.  A knife is not the best tool in this case.

SGH

A special request my friends. If any of you have any pics from the brisket camp that you haven't posted as of yet. Would you share them when time permits. Thanks. There are some that was taken of me and Party Monster that I would love to have but haven't seen them posted as of yet.

SGH

Bump for^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Eggcelsior

I do but I don't know when I'll get around to posting.

SGH

@Eggcelsior‌
Just whenever you can my friend. There were some taken of Party Monster that I don't have. Would love to see them. Thanks man

SGH

@Eggcelsior‌
I don't know if you took it or not, but me and brother Tex posed for a pic together holding a sign up for cazzy. I haven't seen that one either. That is the one I have the most interest in. If you have that one please send it to me direct if you don't mind. Going to do a special post with that one
Thanks in advance.

Eggcelsior

That wasn't me.

cazzy

SGH said:

@Eggcelsior‌
I don't know if you took it or not, but me and brother Tex posed for a pic together holding a sign up for cazzy. I haven't seen that one either. That is the one I have the most interest in. If you have that one please send it to me direct if you don't mind. Going to do a special post with that one
Thanks in advance.

I laughed my ass off when I saw that pic!

SGH

@cazzy‌
Who has it? I would love a copy.

SGH

@cazzy‌
Was it the one with the "No Smoking Cazzy" sign? That's the one I'm looking for.

cazzy

SGH said:

@cazzy‌
Was it the one with the "No Smoking Cazzy" sign? That's the one I'm looking for.

No clue...I was pulling your leg. That sounds funny though. Now I won't be surprised.

SGH

Just playing around with Unit #1.
Getting ready for next years brisket camp.

SGH

@cazzy‌
I may have been just testing the waters myself

cazzy

SGH said:

@cazzy‌
I may have been just testing the waters myself

Maybe, maybe not. Either way, I'll take it in stride.

SGH

@cazzy‌
How about my grub? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

cazzy

Post a pic of the point. Sausage looks great!

SGH

I haven't sliced the point. Vacum sealed and frozen.

cazzy

What is the rub? I'm trying to put my finger on it. It doesn't look crusty, more like a wet rub.

SGH

@cazzy‌
You are correct. It's a emulsion consisting of water, sea salt, black & cayenne pepper and some almost liquefied white onions. This one was cooked more for collecting juice for my stuffed chickens than anything else. The flat was quite good though I thought.

cazzy

Cool. The black with mahogany is always lovely on a brisket.

You prolly didn't think I would catch that.

SGH

@cazzy‌
Actually I'm not totally surprised. You seem to be a very accomplished brisket cook yourself. I've never discredited you in that regard. I feel that DMW, Nola, Brother Tex, lousubcap, hapster, Brother Husker and a few others would catch it as well. Still I give credit where credit is due. Good catch Caz.

SGH

Pic test on iOS 8.0.2
Ignore.