Brisket help!

JuicyMeat

Have a 5 lb flat brisket that has been on now for almost 9 hours at around 225. It has been at 165 now for a few hours and isn't budging. Family is ready to kill me! Using BBQ guru. Pit probe is at the level of the grid and the food probe is in the thickest part of the brisket. The BIg Green Egg temp probe consistently reads much lower than the grid temp. I have to wonder if I am really cooking at a lower temp than the BBQ guru tells me. Bumped up the pit temp a bit. Very frustrating as I didn't think it would take this long for a 5 lb flat brisket. Any comments or suggestions? Thanks.

tcracing

Brisket going thru the stall. You can bumb up the tempature to finish. You need to start at least a couple of hours before you think you do. Did you calibrate?

SGH

Brother this far into the cook, I would suggest wrapping or panning it with a little liquid to help speed it along. I would also bump the temp up to 275-300 degrees once it was wrapped or panned. The liquid will help prevent it from drying out hopefully. Sorry to answer so late. But work has been interfering with my forum time. I hate to give advice on a flat only. It's hard to give exacting advice without seeing and feeling it. However I feel the foiling or panning with liquid this late in the ball game is the sound choice. Just my thoughts my friend. Good luck.

JuicyMeat

Have calibrated the BGE Probe before and it was OK. This is not the first time I have noticed the temp discrepancy. I would expect a slight difference but not what I am seeing (30-40 degrees). SGH - I have foiled it with some apple cider and bumped up the temp. At 175 now. Will pull when 180 if my family doesn't murder me by then!

North_Is_Up

Throw it in the oven at 375 for 30 minutes. You already have the smoky taste in there. Of course, I'm on the west coast where we have an extra 3 hours per day to smoke things.

grege345

The smaller the brisket the harder the cook. May the force be with u

SGH

JuicyMeat said:

Have calibrated the BGE Probe before and it was OK. This is not the first time I have noticed the temp discrepancy. I would expect a slight difference but not what I am seeing (30-40 degrees). SGH - I have foiled it with some apple cider and bumped up the temp. At 175 now. Will pull when 180 if my family doesn't murder me by then!

Just my opinion but unless you are going to slice it paper thin, you probably will want to go a tad higher than 180. If you have it wrapped with some liquid, you can safely crank the egg up to 425 for the finish with no ill affects.