Texas BBQ

This was a strange one today...I went to my local tire shop. Dude was dressed out in a yellow chicken outfit. No lie. At about 9am (it was 40 degrees) he said it might be a bad idea to wear this for too long, it was warm early but now it's about to got proper hot in the afternoon.

"Did you not bring some jeans or something?"

"Nope."

 

But the whole point of that story above was that he gave me homemade tamales.

$50/lb for brisket? I don't care how good the bbq is, that's just ****ing idiotic. Very Austin.

 

Close, Murfreesboro but I do some work in hermitage

 

Not Texas, but I'm sure it can be appreciated in this thread. Georgy Kavkaz's YouTube channel :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHK357UDDmL6EMTb4YPE7ew

I love how this mad Russian and his buddy just bring that T-Rex carcass in, slap it on the table, and commence to carving and cooking while chugging wine. I have no idea what may have happened at the 4:55 mark of the video :

 

Saw this shut pop up on my YouTube feed. Good to see we’re getting more of us in the game.

 

Where are you getting 35 dollar briskets these days? I'm over 50 for mine, but they are prime.

 

A prime brisket at HEB is around $3.50 per pound right now. I've bought 3 in the past 5 weeks...been very busy on the smoker. Choice can be bought cheaper but I think prime is the way to go.

 

Tamales! My Dad used to drive the family to Galveston in the 1950's with a big ice chest in the trunk just to buy at least 4 dozen tamales from an very old, very tall Black gentleman with a cart on Broadway at a street corner. More, if he had enough. He had to save some for his regulars. I don't know what was in them, but I still remember what they tasted like. Still the best I've ever had. By the time the 4 of us got home in Southeast Houston, we'd put a major dent in them. Then one time we drove down for tamales and the old fellow wasn't there. We never saw him again and never found out why. I'm guessing old age found either the brilliant tamale creator or the really nice tamale cart man. Maybe both. It catches up with us all.

 

Did they harvest the T-Rex from Siberian permafrost?

 

Krogers has sales once and a while for 1.79/lb or 1.99/lb. Its untrimmed and still got the hard cap fat on it though.

 

You want the hard cap on it, sir...

 

Not the excessive amount still left on the untrimmed slabs.

 

So trim it down to a quarter-inch or so like most people -- but to want it to be completely removed is madness! Do you hate flavor?

 

Quarter inch...? Fugg that. I leave about a half inch to 3/4 inch on mine.

 

Trimming up a full packer brisket is part of the fun and the experience!!

 

I think the fun is in the process of learning how to smoke and prepare brisket. After the learning process is over, its just work and a hassle.

 

Trimming it to your liking is part of the preparation.