Tag Archives: Texas BBQ

A Timely Tradition

This week­end is Memo­r­ial Day Week­end and for the past three years, we have hosted what we refer to as “The Meat­fest” at our house in early cel­e­bra­tion of Memo­r­ial Day. This year will be no dif­fer­ent except that the peo­ple on our guest list have mostly all agreed to drive to our house out …

May 22, 2009 – 1:28 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (3)

First Brisket Temp

We’re in our 8th hour and the brisket is sit­ting on 150. Hope we can get 40 more degrees in 8 more hours. She’s start­ing to look good though and def­i­nitely seems juicy.

October 18, 2008 – 4:01 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (0)

Trouble In BBQ Land

Hav­ing trou­ble keep­ing the temps in the range I want tonight for some rea­son and I’m hop­ing that doesn’t spell trou­ble with a cap­i­tal T for this poor brisket. Didn’t help that I fell asleep for a lit­tle while only to wake up and find the temps down around 160. Back up to 253 at …

October 18, 2008 – 3:51 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (0)

First Turn

Turned the brisket at 9:30, about 15 min­utes late but I was on the phone with my par­ents. Didn’t get the mop started until just now so it will be another 30 min­utes before I get it mopped. Also had a lit­tle episode where my timer wasn’t on and the temp got up to 318 …

October 17, 2008 – 10:11 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (2)

So It Begins

The brisket is room tem­per­a­ture and hap­pily rubbed down with secret stuff. The coals are hot. The smoker is 219 degrees mov­ing towards 235. The hick­ory chunks are pre­pared. It’s time to start smok­ing. 14 pound brisket, 8 PM start time, so that baby should be done tomor­row morn­ing around 10:30 or so. Then the …

October 17, 2008 – 7:58 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (2)