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Thanksgiving Brisket. If you’re planning to smoke a brisket for thanksgiving this year, you’ll want to plan ahead and start trimming on Tuesday, smoke it all day Wednesday, hot hold it overnight and s

Easy Brats I like making everything from scratch, but I also have a busy day job. So today we’re smoking grocery store brats for dinner. I smoke at 180F until the internal temp hits 140F. Then give

Come hang out if you like brisket and rock. #bbq #brisket

Easy Ribs. I had a big project due at work and also needed to cook three racks of ribs for dinner. I didn’t bother trimming, slathering, or removing the membrane from these St. Louis ribs. I used a bl

Brisket Serving. After all of the shopping, prep, smoking, holding …it’s now time to do my favorite part, which is serving the people. I like to offer everybody the choice of a lean or fatty piece. So

Costco Brisket Online Reveal. Today’s the big reveal of that scrawny 12 pound brisket I got from Costco Online. I usually hand pick my briskets and get it mostly right, but for experiment sake I wante

Costco Brisket Online Trim Let’s trim those 4 briskets I got from Costco Business delivery. The first two looked like standard briskets that I normally get. They were 15 and 16 pounds, had a decent

For once I wasn’t in a rush and took my time trimming these briskets. Yes, I wear cut gloves and nitrile gloves - without hands I don’t make money. Cut the wrapper along the deckle and remove it. P

I’m working on perfecting my beef jerky process so I can increase my volume. And I got some new gear to help with that. A new slicer and a new dehydrator. I’m using eye of round, but you can use a

Pork Belly Burnt Ends Today we’re smoking pork belly burnt ends. We’re cubing up this 10 pound pork belly into 2” chunks. Slathering with mustard and sriracha. And applying a paprika based rub and a

Real Time Brisket Trim. Part 2. See my last post for the backstory. #bbq #brisket