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Here’s a pic of the Brisket I smoked yesterday. I bet it’s gone by Sunday
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Here’s a pic of the Brisket I smoked yesterday. I bet it’s gone by Sunday
SighMaking me hungry
So....you're old enough to remember when brisket was 59₵/# but every once in a while (late May) they'd put it on sale for a more reasonable price?Last time I looked at brisket at the grocery store, I almost had a heart attack.
And I love smoking brisket.
So....you're old enough to remember when brisket was 59₵/# but every once in a while (late May) they'd put it on sale for a more reasonable price?
Brisket like all other once cheap meats take off once chefs across the country figure them out. I like sweetbreads & we use to order them & keep them for a couple of guys who knew how to cook them. At that time wholesale cost was .99 cents per pound. One year the wife & I head out for our anniversary. Back then we made a big deal about it simply because no one else gives a shit. We end up @ Cafe Annie(High class restaurant overlooking Post Oak Boulevard withs lots of windows. The restaurant received a lot of recognition from local and national food media, incuding a James Beard Foundation Award for Chef Robert Del Grande.) They had sweetbreads on the menu for $23.00 a plate.Last time I looked at brisket at the grocery store, I almost had a heart attack.
And I love smoking brisket.
I remember .29 cents a pound briskets for 4th of July & Memorial Day! I also remember when weighting a pallet of briskets pulling all the nice ones out for anyone in the store.So....you're old enough to remember when brisket was 59₵/# but every once in a while (late May) they'd put it on sale for a more reasonable price?
Ain't it the truth? Flank steaks used to be a "trash cut", too. They are almost as pricey as brisket lately.Brisket like all other once cheap meats take off once chefs across the country figure them out. I like sweetbreads & we use to order them & keep them for a couple of guys who knew how to cook them. At that time wholesale cost was .99 cents per pound. One year the wife & I head out for our anniversary. Back then we made a big deal about it simply because no one else gives a shit. We end up @ Cafe Annie(High class restaurant overlooking Post Oak Boulevard withs lots of windows. The restaurant received a lot of recognition from local and national food media, incuding a James Beard Foundation Award for Chef Robert Del Grande.) They had sweetbreads on the menu for $23.00 a plate.
My chef buddy says (A good chef can make money with water & flour. A great chef can do it with water & air!)
Ain't it the truth? Flank steaks used to be a "trash cut", too. They are almost as pricey as brisket lately.
Edit: Maybe they are MORE pricey? I have not bought in a long while.
I use to make my jerky from flank steaks! Swing Steak(oxtails) are stupid over priced. Offals have always been the big profit cuts. Stupid ass store I worked for stopped putting offals out, then started wondering about meat department profits. I guess offals are just to offensive to many special folks.Ain't it the truth? Flank steaks used to be a "trash cut", too. They are almost as pricey as brisket lately.
I learned that while working @ a store were we sold a lot of pig parts. Put some whole oxtail tails on the smoker & leave them be. Pork Neck bones on the smoker when they are .99 cents a pound aint bad eating either. You would be surprised at the meat on them. Sitting around telling lies, drinking beer & eating neck bones with hot sauce, beats hot dogs & most smoked sausage.I never heard the term "swing steak".
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