Brisket periodically goes on sale here for $2.50/lb. for choice and $3.50/lb. for prime (at Costco), so that's when I buy my brisket.
Being only human, I can't eat a whole brisket in one sitting, so I like to split them and freeze the other half (in a vacuum seal bag).
I just removed the flat from a choice brisket I had frozen, and I want to turn it into pastrami. Last time I followed this recipe, but the results came out so dry it crumbled when I cut it and it ended up in the trash.
That could be entirely my fault, or it could be the recipe. I've got my smoking technique now down a bit better, and I have a good meat thermometer.
Anyone have any recipes/tips/tricks for a good pastrami? I have the nitrite salt I need.. Actually I have more than I need. I got this one.
Being only human, I can't eat a whole brisket in one sitting, so I like to split them and freeze the other half (in a vacuum seal bag).
I just removed the flat from a choice brisket I had frozen, and I want to turn it into pastrami. Last time I followed this recipe, but the results came out so dry it crumbled when I cut it and it ended up in the trash.
That could be entirely my fault, or it could be the recipe. I've got my smoking technique now down a bit better, and I have a good meat thermometer.
Anyone have any recipes/tips/tricks for a good pastrami? I have the nitrite salt I need.. Actually I have more than I need. I got this one.