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Always a silver lining
Teefus
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So Bride of Teefus and I were out and about Saturday and found a rural grocer with the obligatory corned beef clearance sale in honor of St Patty's day. This difference was that this guy had points instead of flats. I saw this a good opportunity to make something yummy so I grabbed a four pounder. I soaked it in five gallons of water overnight to pull some of the salt out of it and put in on the Egg Sunday morning. After five hours in pecan smoke it measured 167* and I wrapped it in butcher paper. Five hours later it was at *205 and I pulled it and threw it in a small cooler. After a two hour rest I sliced it up and tried a sample. I'm glad I soaked it, as it was still pretty briny. The amount of shrinkage was remarkable. I trimmed more than a half pound of hard fat off it prior to applying a rub. It lost significant size during the cook too. Finished weight was 1.5#. After taking another look at the package I could see why. "Up to 35% solution added..." . Oh well. It made for some awesome hash this morning.
Michiana, South of the border.
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I bought a grocery store vac-packed corn beef point. I simmered it for 2.5 hours on the cooktop. I was not impressed. At this point, I'm thinking that I may not be a corned beef fan. The thing is, I do enjoy it from a deli, maybe I just didn't cook it right.
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A cured corned beef is about an 8 hour simmer. We did one in the crock pot and it turned out fine. Quality makes a difference here. I like Grobbel’s from Detroit. They pack a good corned beef.Michiana, South of the border.
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I've always been happy with this recipe when it comes prepackaged. I turn it into pastrami. I smoke it and finish it off in the pressure cooker.
http://playingwithfireandsmoke.blogspot.com/1996/05/beef-pastrami.html?m=1
"The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan
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@BUFFALOMOOSE made some pastrami out of a corned beef brisket and it was outstanding.=======================================
XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP
Tampa Bay, FL
EIB 6 Oct 95
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