CHARCOAL BARBECUE PIT RECIPES

What is Brisket?  Brisket is one of the nine primal beef cuts. It’s specifically a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest of a beef. The cut is known to be relatively tough as it is full of connective tissues and two muscles that overlap. However, when cooked properly beef brisket will be deliciously tender, and flavor packed.You may wonder how to cook brisket so that you won’t end up with a tough and dry piece. There are a few ways to cook juicy beef brisket. Some prefer to do a Texas style brisket in the oven which requires the least effort but also the least impressive results. Place it on a roasting pan and give it a few hours. Others are hooked on cooking brisket in a slow cooker. This is an easy way to create a tender cut but there is such thing as overcooking a brisket. You want the meat to be tender, but not mushy. Depending on the size of you cut it usually takes about 8 hours for tender results. Lastly, there’s the most popular: smoked brisket. So how to smoke brisket? For your convenience we have listed a step-by-step smoked beef brisket recipe below as well as one of our most popular recipe videos. If you plan on smoking the meat you’ve probably read and heard a lot about the “low and slow” method. It will without doubt result in pure and simple melt in your mouth and packed with flavor brisket. However, by slow it can take 16+ hours. Yes, you read that right. Be prepared to have the cut smoking all night + getting up to refill either pellets, charcoal or wood chips depending on your smoker. It’s quite the sacrifice in hope of perfecting the craft of the perfect tender brisket. Many will refer to smoking the perfect beef brisket as an art. If you’re able to execute the brisket recipe to perfection you will automatically be looked up to by all who appreciated and acknowledges good barbecue. It’s the goal of becoming a real pit master.Nevertheless, this is where immaculate drum smokers such as the Pit Barrel Cooker is able to make the art of smoking the perfect brisket a breeze. In less than half the time of other cookers, the Pit Barrel® can fully cook a brisket, without compromising neither taste nor tenderness, for amazing results. By being able to hang the brisket in center of the action, the meat will be smoked from all angles equally. It’s known as the 360º all-around heat dynamics technology. You may wonder how it is possible to create the same results without having to slow cook. It’s simply due to the patented technology and air circulation of our barrels. It took 29 prototypes to get it just right.As for seasoning most tend to settle for kosher salt and black pepper but we challenge you to take the flavor experience up a notch with the best-selling Beef & Game Pit Rub which is specially formulated dry rub for a deep and delicious flavor.

Provided by Pit Barrel Cooker Co.

Total Time 5 hours 45 minutes

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 5 hours 30 minutes

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 16, Calories 700