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The Salado Brisket Número Dos.

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    CT - have a working theory here.   Did you use the DW to control the temp or the bottom vent?  BTW, looks effin' delicious.
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    nolaegghead said:
    CT - have a working theory here.   Did you use the DW to control the temp or the bottom vent?  BTW, looks effin' delicious.

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Ok, so that blows my theory.   I was thinking you might have the top wide open and the bottom controlling.
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    nolaegghead said:
    Ok, so that blows my theory.   I was thinking you might have the top wide open and the bottom controlling.

    This would be cool to figure out. We do get tons of guys asking. I've done this exact same set up before with the cold meat and very low fire and it did the same thing. We are missing something......
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  • JRWhitee
    JRWhitee Posts: 5,678
    edited March 2013
    Do you inject the brisket? I have cooked mine basically the same as you do but I always get a smoke ring. I do boil au jus, bacon grease and all the hard fat I trim off the brisket and inject it. I wonder if all that added fat injected has anything to do with it.
                                                                
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    Come on meat glue dealer! Tender quick that beast and bask in myoglobin's glory in it's tango with smoke!
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    henapple said:
    it's brisket...not beyonce... no need to put a ring on it.
    That line needs to be made into a bumper sticker... now.

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Eggcelsior said:
    Come on meat glue dealer! Tender quick that beast and bask in myoglobin's glory in it's tango with smoke!

    NEVER!
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  • Springram
    Springram Posts: 430
    I seem to get smoke rings every time. Like you, I keep the temp at "low and slow" to get the smoke ring. I ramp up the temp after having obtained the bark I want.   I use the Dalmation Rub (50% kosher salt -  50 % 16 mesh black pepper) but I do not see how that would make a difference regarding a smoke ring. I use post oak but still do not see how that can make much difference either.

    Sorry...not much help....just puzzled.

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  • RAC
    RAC Posts: 1,688
    Man that look's awesome! Was it gone in under 5 minutes?

    Ricky

    Boerne, TX

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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    edited March 2013
    The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
    Eggcelsior said:
    Come on meat glue dealer! Tender quick that beast and bask in myoglobin's glory in it's tango with smoke!

    NEVER!
    Hmm.... You can just sneak-attack naysayers with kickass brisket after they make fun of you because the brisket doesn't look like the local chain's offering. Huzzah!
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179

    @RAC- We actually had leftovers. Just the four of us last night

     

    @jrwhitee- I don't inject with anything. just rub and smoke.

     

    @springram- I do it the same way but I use bad Byrons most of the time for the rub.

     

    I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of it. This kind of stuff keeps Nola and Eggselsior up at night. Books will be read, internets will be scoured.

     

     

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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Yeah right! Keep your secrets closely guarded while everybody else continues going simple and dying on the vine

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I'm sleeping well now days. :D Seems the trick to a smoke ring is moisture - mop the meat and it encourages more of a smoke ring. 

    This is a very compelling article based on actual experimentation.

    http://www.genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/smokeRingMoist.html


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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Little Steven said:
    Yeah right! Keep your secrets closely guarded while everybody else continues going simple and dying on the vine
    I hope your puppy pees on your carpet today.


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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
    Little Steven said:
    Yeah right! Keep your secrets closely guarded while everybody else continues going simple and dying on the vine
    I hope your puppy pees on your carpet today.


    Hahah...Steven essentially accused you of being an "Aaron Franklin"!
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  • RoundTowner
    RoundTowner Posts: 125
    Bring over a pack of camels....I'll show you how to make an awsome smoke ring.... :D
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    nolaegghead said:
    I'm sleeping well now days. :D Seems the trick to a smoke ring is moisture - mop the meat and it encourages more of a smoke ring. 

    This is a very compelling article based on actual experimentation.

    http://www.genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/smokeRingMoist.html


    Then I'll never have one. I ain't mopping nothing.

    I think if you put some water in your drip pan it helps too. My nephew makes crap briskets on a WSM with kingsford and his smoke rings are 1/2 inch deep. I would try that before mopping (shudder) a brisket.


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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,806
    Nailed another one; well-done. No turbo brisket for you :)
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    lousubcap said:
    Nailed another one; well-done. No turbo brisket for you :)
    nope. I still think I could cook it at 275-300 and it would be the same. I think it's all in the rest.
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200

    Looks awesome!!

    I don't know if it makes any difference and its more work, but I pull the plate setter (now it would be the AR) and everything and drop in a fresh chunk of wood every hour for the first couple of hours until I get too drunk and pass out...I mean go to bed.

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
    nolaegghead said:
    I'm sleeping well now days. :D Seems the trick to a smoke ring is moisture - mop the meat and it encourages more of a smoke ring. 

    This is a very compelling article based on actual experimentation.

    http://www.genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/smokeRingMoist.html


    Then I'll never have one. I ain't mopping nothing.

    I think if you put some water in your drip pan it helps too. My nephew makes crap briskets on a WSM with kingsford and his smoke rings are 1/2 inch deep. I would try that before mopping (shudder) a brisket.


    It's not like you'll have to turn your man card in.  Put a little aqua in a spray bottle (a manly one) and hit it every now and then with mist.  You'll also pick up more smoke when the outside of the meat is moist.
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    I will be up at night for many nights thinking about this. Maybe something with water, NO2 from wood smoke, glutamate in the meat and salt in the rub. Science is a lonely man's game....
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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    pour half a coke zero over it... per @nolaegghead.
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • CincyTiki
    CincyTiki Posts: 346
    @Cen-Tex, I am going to try my first brisket this weekend and want to do the rest at the end you mention. Is this two wraps of foil, a couple towels and into the cooler? 3 hours? Thanks for the recipe and the slicing photos in the other thread.
    Enjoying life in Cincinnati, Ohio - Large BGE & MiniMax BGE
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    CincyTiki said:
    @Cen-Tex, I am going to try my first brisket this weekend and want to do the rest at the end you mention. Is this two wraps of foil, a couple towels and into the cooler? 3 hours? Thanks for the recipe and the slicing photos in the other thread.

    You nailed it. Double wrapped and 2-3 towels depending on the size of your cooler.
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  • CincyTiki
    CincyTiki Posts: 346
    Thanks for the help! =D>
    Enjoying life in Cincinnati, Ohio - Large BGE & MiniMax BGE
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    CincyTiki said:
    Thanks for the help! =D>

    no worries. have fun and let us know if things go sideways. And they will. :))
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