This.

All that food looks freaking great!
BTW who grills in there front yards?

Badass smokers obv.

I never thought there could be a food related TR that would top Garcia's toro trip report, but this might.

Almost drove to Famous Daves and picked up some brisket but I ended up getting too trashed. All I've got is rabbit food here and even $15/lb brisket (cost at FDs takeout section) sounds pretty damn good right about now. Oh the humanity imo. Hell that bacon is making me hungry.

Are you guys done smoking your meat yet?

Did you eat your meat yet?

Pics please but only if SFW

zomg

El Creel just finally pulled the brisket off the smoker about 10 minutes ago. Elapsed smoking time: 17 hrs, 10 minutes.

We have not yet tested the brisket. It has to rest half an hour for the juices to congeal or something. I dunno. I'm not going to bed without a juicy brisket sandwich. Emergency rations of white bread, pickles, onions, and home made sauce are on standy. Beer supplies are low.

brisket, at the bottom of a tin foil lined cooler:





praying to sweet baby jesus for delicous supple cow meat

this thread isn't about what i thought it was about

much, much better. your brisket looks delicious.

man, I wouldn't need a fork. I'd just dig in with my hands, caveman style. Screw the burning.

I am so going to get BBQ today for lunch

omg this is so sick... making me hungry

great thread

UPDATES pls!!!

Update: The brisket was ******g amazing. There are two sections of the brisket, the fatty side and the lean side. The lean side was very good, but the fatty side was literally some of the best (if not the very best) fatty brisket I have ever had. We smoked the hell out of that bastard, and there was a great flavor to it. Epic success, other than us totally failing to account for the amount of time.

BRISKET PIC:



not the greatest pic but I was super drunk and tired. Check out the dark red smoke ring on the edge of the meat.

I still have like 5 pounds of beef in the fridge. At the end of the night when we finally ate, there were only about 6 or 7 people standing of the 12-13 who came over. I also made some ranchero pinto beans which were even better than the brisket. (Ok, not really, because the brisket is meat.) But they were seriously amazing beans, and we ate the whole pot.

Some of the bean ingredients before cooking:



For the beans, I cooked about 3-4 cups of dried pintos until near tender. Then I fried up an entire pound of bacon (see pic earlier in thread.) I diced up two yellow onions, two ripe tomatos, a bell pepper, and 3 jalapenos. I kept all the bacon grease and sauteed all the vegetables in it with cumin, chili powder, and pepper. I also threw in a few tablespoons of the brisket dry rub (Tony Chachere's & cracked pepper) into the beans pot, and then simmered for about two hours with the chopped up bacon.

I drank about 15 beers



ate brisket, passed out at 2am, and didn't get up until 1pm today.

In a little while I am going to get some more brisket. mmmmmm brisket.

Link to these plz.

I beg to differ. This is the greatest pic.

lol awful lot of meat smoker in that sentence, throw a no **** in there next time

This thread is pure goodness.

bump for picture of brisket dinner that I just discovered:



edit: maximum res goodness: http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/7...nnermmmrp4.jpg

I just had a snack, but now I'm starving again. nh OP.

I would have taken it out at 150 degrees. The FDA approved food temps. are grossly exaggerated....but I like my stuff pretty rare.

Sure looks good though!

damn, looks tasty. So how is the weather up there in minneapolis? heh

obviously he lives in the ghetto, dude is BBQing on the front lawn.




ps- i need that food now.

Someone should send a poet to this thread to describe its greatness.

Ship some to my house...between Canton and Tyler right off I-20.

wtf