Smoked Or Non Smoked ?

[TexasPatriot1916]

What Do you Gents Prefer Smoked or Non Smoked meats ? Smoked Brisket or Grilled Brisket ?

 

[jrbfishn]

There are 2 ways to cook most meat. Chicken fried and with a wood fire.

Smoked.

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[EZ-E]

Smoked is what I prefer...grilling is what mostly happens around the house during the week.

 

[baboon]

Brisket makes a lot of great meals besides smoked or grilled. Pot roast, ground for burgers, diced for stew, the point slow simmered & shredded for tacos.

 

[toddnjoyce]

You’re not from around here, are you?

I’ve never had grilled brisket, but I’ve had brisket that’s been smoked at too high a temp and it was tough as shoe leather.

I’d hazard to guess doing one at grilling temps (not smoking temps in a grill) would be inedible.

 

[oldag]

I use a grill, but since it spends hours on the grill it is closer to smoked. Sear with the fat side down for 30 minutes to an hour, then some hours on a very slow fire with the meat side down. Great smoked flavor.

Finish sealed in foil with some water to tenderize.

 

[vmax]

What is "grilled" brisket?


Nevermind...I dont want to know

 

[easy rider]

Depends on the meat, but brisket smoked for sure.

 

[dsgrey]

You’re not from around here, are you?

I’ve never had grilled brisket, but I’ve had brisket that’s been smoked at too high a temp and it was tough as shoe leather.

I saw a neighbor out yesterday with two of those cheap $20 Walmart charcoal grills and I swear he was turning a brisket.

Smoker - whole chicken, brisket, turkey, ham, ribs, fish, sausage and other misc meat.
Grill - chicken parts, burgers, steak, chops, fish, sausage, hot dogs, individual rib pieces to fill space

 

[bigwheel]

Well depends on the definition for grilling. The bohunks in S. Texas are experts at slow direct grilling over mesquite coal using big direct cooking pits usually made out of big wore out butane tanks. That is some stuff to die for. Now some yankee clowning around with a Walmart grill using Kingsford briquettes in the backyard aint gonna cut it. An offset creosote facotry stick burner would be better than that.

 

[deemus]

There is only one answer. Smoked.

 

[TxStetson]

There are 2 ways to cook most meat. Chicken fried and with a wood fire.

Smoked.

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This exactly.

 

[Bozz10mm]

Mesquite smoked.

 

[deemus]

Mesquite smoked.

Now this should be the discussion. "What kind of wood do you use on your brisket?"

I use a base of oak, but like to use pecan and mesquite for flavor. All mesquite was a bit too much IMO, and it was harder to control the temp, but adding mesquite to the oak was near perfection, and I also like the flavor adding a little green pecan.

 

[easy rider]

No doubt in my mind brisket needs to be smoked, and many other meats are great smoked, but after my many trips to Hawaii I'm sold on Kalua pig.

 

[Vaquero]

Mesquite for beef
Hickory for pork
Oak if you can't get either one.

 

[Vaquero]

No doubt in my mind brisket needs to be smoked, and many other meats are great smoked, but after my many trips to Hawaii I'm sold on Kalua pig.

Gulliver

 

[jrbfishn]

As long as it is hardwood, just about any will do. I prefer Pecan with some Cherry, Peach, or Apple thrown in. Nothing that has pitch in it. That's a big no-no.

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[easy rider]

As long as it is hardwood, just about any will do. I prefer Pecan with some Cherry, Peach, or Apple thrown in. Nothing that has pitch in it. That's a big no-no.

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Do you have to eat it with a pitch fork?

 

[baboon]

Chef buddy of mine bought some South America hardwood lump charcoal years back that was killer.