Get your brisket

[baboon]

Looks like Randall’s (same company as Tom Thumb) has the same deal. Limit 1. The closest Randalls is a bit of a drive though.

Randall's is actually owned by Albertsons. I went to work as an apprentice meat cutter for Randall's in 1982. They have been bought and sold first to KKR who gutted them, then Safeway who cheapened them & cut service and now Albertson's.

I was Randall's go from the Largest market share in Houston that where innovators in the industry, to a pretty ratty operation. I actually worked at the Sugarland store in 1983 when it was a Flagship store that Bob Onstead (on of the original Owners & Founders)wife shopped weekly. I was shipped back in 2018 when the amount of thefts of the charts and the ceiling leaked badly. I had enough of their shit & quit.

 

[Lead Belly]

My B-i-L, a real beef brisket expert, says there in no good reliable way to judge uncut, uncooked brisket.

What about the fold-it method to see how stiff it is?

 

[baboon]

What about the fold-it method to see how stiff it is?

Oh yeah your doing it right is what I told ever customer folding a brisket who asked. Nothing like the time bandits on a job.

 

[leVieux]

What about the fold-it method to see how stiff it is?

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I’m no expert; I was just repeating what he told me.

He BBQ cooks over 6,000# a month, and has for about 40 years.

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[oldag]

Pics?

You wouldn't want pics of it now.

 

[Texan79423]

Not as good as a prime cut but good enough. Secret to good BBQ is always serve beer and make them wait.

 

[baboon]

Not as good as a prime cut but good enough. Secret to good BBQ is always serve beer and make them wait.View attachment 459436

The whole thing about making a great brisket is not about using a prime grade. Smoking a brisket is all about taking a lower grade tough piece of meat and through the process of slow cooking with smoke making it great.

Any one can slow cook a brisket inside the house using their oven. I have an oven cooked recipe that produces a killer brisket. Not that he was very intelligent but my father in law swore it was smoked.

A tender brisket is not unlike great fajitas, it’s all about the skill of turning what at one time were considered lower cuts of meat.

One of the reasons why briskets are stupidly high priced is all about them going from a nominal cut to a more popular one. The same thing applies to so many different cuts of meat or fish. The popularity of Blackened Redfish damn near decimated redfish.

I have a real chef friend, who told me a good chef can make something good out of flour and water, a great chef can make something out of water and air. I proved that to him with prime rib.

 

[leVieux]

Not as good as a prime cut but good enough. Secret to good BBQ is always serve beer and make them wait.View attachment 459436

That is a bit overdone for me.

 

[innominate]

The whole thing about making a great brisket is not about using a prime grade. Smoking a brisket is all about taking a lower grade tough piece of meat and through the process of slow cooking with smoke making it great.

Any one can slow cook a brisket inside the house using their oven. I have an oven cooked recipe that produces a killer brisket. Not that he was very intelligent but my father in law swore it was smoked.

A tender brisket is not unlike great fajitas, it’s all about the skill of turning what at one time were considered lower cuts of meat.

One of the reasons why briskets are stupidly high priced is all about them going from a nominal cut to a more popular one. The same thing applies to so many different cuts of meat or fish. The popularity of Blackened Redfish damn near decimated redfish.

I have a real chef friend, who told me a good chef can make something good out of flour and water, a great chef can make something out of water and air. I proved that to him with prime rib.

Would you pm me that oven recipe. Since i sold my house I no longer have my own grill or smoker. I'd like to try one in the oven.

 

[Army 1911]

Better yet pos the recipe for all of us.

 

[Lead Belly]

I smoke mine until they are 150/160 on the pellet grill, at which point the meat closes-up and doesn't absorb smoke anymore. Then she goes in foil in the oven to finish to 204. The bark may suffer in the foil, but nobody complains and I don't need to worry about the pellets going out and saves me pellets ( B & B are the best)

 

[dsgrey]

Cheap Kroger brisket turned out well.

 

[Madhouse]

Heck yeah it does....

 

[sparkyv]

EXACTLY, 100% agree!

Smoking a brisket is all about taking a lower grade tough piece of meat and through the process of slow cooking with smoke making it great.

 

[oldag]

Back on sale at $2.50.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Back on sale at $2.50.

At Krogers?

 

[Texan79423]

Like women all are good with enough beer just don't wake up with some.