# Busting My Brisket Cherry

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-my-brisket-cherry/371970>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 8, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-my-brisket-cherry/371970 "2006-09-08T20:18:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-my-brisket-cherry/371970/1 "2006-09-08T20:18:09Z")

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My roommate and I are going to be preparing a pair of briskets for college game day tomorrow. Neither of us have ever slow cooked a brisket before.

We have purchased a smoker with a firebox. Does anyone have any cooking tips? Or any other secret knowledge? I am very excited but I know brisket cooking is quite an art, and I want us to do as good a job as we can.

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-my-brisket-cherry/371970/2 "2006-09-08T20:21:38Z")

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Oh yeah, we’ve checked out this page:  
[http://www.heb.com/mealtime/CT-brisketSecrets.jsp](http://www.heb.com/mealtime/CT-brisketSecrets.jsp)

which seems to have lots of good advice but anything the teeming millions can share is welcome.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-my-brisket-cherry/371970/3 "2006-09-09T01:53:32Z")

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Fat up, smoke at no more that 250°, and you can remove it from the smoke and finish in the oven after about 4 hours in the smoke. Just wrap it in foil and pop into a 350° oven until done. The rest is experience. How big are these briskets?

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/busting-my-brisket-cherry/371970/4 "2006-09-09T13:54:56Z")

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Moved from IMHO to CS.