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Never a total write off. Chop it up finely, mix with corn, chopped carrots and peas, make up a nice rich beef sauce/gravy and make pies out of it with puff pastry. It’s what I do when I have leftover brisket. Pies then can be heated and eaten as you wish. A dash of your favourite curry powder in the sauce is always tasty as well.
Ya I salvaged it but it wasn't the dish planned. Wound up grilling steaks that day and marinating the brisket in a homemade sauce and using it for leftovers on sub buns. Wasn't so dry once steamed in a glass covered dish.
 
Something a bit different. When sweet corn comes in I like to take scallops smoke them 45 minutes @200-225 with fruit wood. I use Pecan. Cook and then cut the corn off the cob. Make bed with Bib lettuce, a scoop of corn and a couple of scallops on top. Makes for a great salad or small plate meal.
 
Tenderloin is super easy on a pellet smoker. 225F until it's about 125F, then toss it on a very hot grill for about 30s each side to crisp the outside.

For a pellet smoker brisket, the Malcom Reed method is probably the easy button.
 
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Your cooks look great! Any cooking tips for the brisket or tenderloin on the pellet smoker? Thanks.
The Traeger app has some very good info about meal prep and cooking times, and I have found it to be spot on.
With the brisket, I rubbed the whole thing with a mixture of Worchester sauce and dry seasonings in a paste-like consistency. Cooked the brisket at 180 grill temp until the internal temp is 160, then double wrapped the meat in foil, added a little beef bone broth/apple juice concoction, and increased grill temp to 225 to an internal temp of 204. I have a cooler that is used strictly for resting, dropped it in there for an hour, and sliced across the grain. Total cook time about 20 hours, put it on 8:30 PM ready to eat the next evening.
 
This is a 45 lb. turkey. The saber saw made quick work of helping it fit in the smoker. I basted it a few times buy thumbing a bottle a angry orchard apple with a quick shake. It turned out fantastic for thanksgiving and the leftovers made great cold turkey sandwiches.

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We raise and butcher our own beef (pure up black angus), so good meat isn’t a problem.
have you tried an AN X Wag. F1 cross?... they feed really well...i can get them to 1300 even with their small frame. they eat really well. I use Toshiro at origen
 
One thing I'll warn you about with pellet grills...

In cold weather, without an insulation blanket, the firepot has to work harder to maintain temps. You'll probably notice this with less smoke than usual. Less smoke = hotter = more efficient burning

When the fire pot is running hard, you'll get more radiant heat off the heat deflector / shield. This added radiative heat can really impact the cook, it'll seem like it's cooking much hotter than usual. It can even burn the bottom of your meat on longer cooks, especially if you're used to cooking at higher temps, like 275F.

If you can put a pan of water on the first shelf, and your meat on the second shelf, you'll get a better buffer from that extra heat. It can really even out the cook. The moisture will make it take longer to set the bark, unfortunately.
 
Ok, my question is maybe off subject a touch, but related.
I have a big pork loin that I bought for a cookout that got canceled, needs to get used and I was thinking of curing and smoking it and making Canadian Bacon. Would a loin work for that? Does anyone have any tips?
As has been said it makes great Canadian bacon. Easy to make bacon also. Cure 8-10 days in frig, rinse, air dry in frig 24 hours, smoke to 150'. You'll never go back to store bought bacon.
 
Should I have taken pics of MY perfectly marbled Angus Ribeyes ,yesterday Before I ate one ?.

As we have a local slaughter Butcher facility , I walk in tell em what I want or drop off a critter and come back when they call . Sliced custom cut and packaged . BBQ ?, That's in TX. and TN. oh also in KS.
Don't tell anyone , as I do that Salmon stuff also ,as it's a by product of our Front yard so to speak .
 

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