Find the brisket cook temperature tracking, and a bunch of photos here...  more to come.

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I am doing a full packer brisket for the first time this Saturday.  Wish me luck and check back here for photos and updates...

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So I got a late start on it, but did get my chicken on the smoker today late in the afternoon.  It didn't take near as long to cook as I thought it would (only around 2 hours).  The temperature details of the cook can be found here.   The drop at the end was me letting it rest (not the fire going out).   In order to get going I had to fashion a...

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So I just remembered about 30 minutes ago that I had taken a organic whole chicken out of the freezer to cook about 3 days ago.  Since it was now fully thawed and I don't like my chicken sitting, I decided to smoke it tomorrow.  Since it is late and I am lazy, I just rubbed it down with my left over brisket rub, from my last cook.  I got my fingers under the skin...

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My wife and pulled one bag of brisket out to reheat last night, along with the BBQ sauce.  We had sealed the brisket in a foodsaver vacuum bag for the first time, so I tried a different reheating method.  This time I boiled some water and simply dumped the brisket, bag and all, in for about 15 minutes. The result was awesome, the brisket was very moist (it can't dry out, since it is vacuum...

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