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food-bev 5.0's Sous Vide sucks and you should feel bad BGE Smoked Brisket

No beef yet, but just finished cleaning, vacuuming and prepping the fire box with a full load of lump + hardwood
 
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tctenten said:
I have the XL. The large is the same size as my WSM. I have been very happy with the extra real estate and the larger fuel box.
 
Ya I bought the XL for my football parties, but i rarely used it outside that, and even then for some parties the Large is just fine.  I may end up keeping it because I am not taking low ball offers on it.  Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it heh  But if it does sell I am gonna have a guy make me a custom offset/vault for larger smokes.  This guy makes some dope ones: http://www.katbbqsmokers.com/  More specifically this one: http://www.katbbqsmokers.com/48x24_vault/  but its hard convincing the wife to let me drop 3k on a smoker haha
 
But one thing is for sure, I will never be eggless until the day I die.  I will be buried with mine.
 
Nice smokers. Still pretty green with my egg, but I understand your feelings about it. Love to see your setup when you put the meat on.
 
tctenten said:
Nice smokers. Still pretty green with my egg, but I understand your feelings about it. Love to see your setup when you put the meat on.
 
Absolutely.  I have the plate setter, the cast iron firebox upgrade and the cast iron grate.  I gotta meet a customer for work, so I am going get the meat on in about 6 or 7 hours.  Damn making money is killin my time frames >.<
 
I've come to like 210-220 before the stall, and around 280-320F thereafter ...
 
That said, I think I could probably just go 280-320F the whole way, too ...
 
 
 
I might have a bigger problem with brisket drying out, though, in the Akorn/Weber ... especially since I don't mop or spray or wrap, and try to get all the way to 203-205F 9 times out of 10.
 
 
grantmichaels said:
I've come to like 210-220 before the stall, and around 280-320F thereafter ...
 
That said, I think I could probably just go 280-320F the whole way, too ...
 
 
 
I might have a bigger problem with brisket drying out, though, in the Akorn/Weber ... especially since I don't mop or spray or wrap, and try to get all the way to 203-205F 9 times out of 10.
 
 
Ya thats one of the best parts about egg and being virtually sealed is that it stays super humid inside.  I might texas crutch this if the stall is going on to long.
 
I've never looked into it, but I imagine it's also the properties similar to terracotta pots ...
 
They breath oxygen and also wick and/or provide moisture, beyond the effect of the insulation.
 
 
 
grantmichaels said:
I've never looked into it, but I imagine it's also the properties similar to terracotta pots ...
 
They breath oxygen and also wick and/or provide moisture, beyond the effect of the insulation.
 
 
 

Yep I took mine to the next level as well.  I kept scorching the felt seals on where the lid meats the base when cooking pizza at 700+ degrees, so i found a trick to use Permatex Copper Gasket maker.  This will be my first cook with it.  The seal is 100%, so the only openings will be about 1/8-1/4" on the top petals and the slight opening for my blower at the bottom.
 
Interesting. 700F constraint probably not very limiting, I guess ...
 
I really don't enjoy the raging hot cooks - probably why I've not seen fit to use the kettlepizza often ...
 
It's kind of unwieldy over 900-1000F ...
 
Had the kettlepizza so hot once (oak), the handles on the Weber went a tiny bit limp under their own weight ...
 
It's never been sealed as well as beforehand, since.
 
There was a ChefSteps & Meathead Goldwynn collab period for a few weeks a while back ...

You can SV in the middle, but you can't get away from hours on smoke up front (2-3) and hours at the end (4-6) if you want everything a brisket is expected to be/have ...

Could consider it wrapping 2.0, both are braising ...

I'm going to do it because I don't like the overnight, unattended smoker much ... while acknowledging it's an irrational fear of the look on the firemen's faces if I had to have them out again over BBQ.
 
I also figured middle... so I guessed close I guess. Figured smoke at high temp to form bark, then sous vide, then back on smoker normal temp just to dry out bark, or similar... but I don't think that would be faster (would it?)... or better, but would be interesting to see!
 
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