Dickey's BBQ here in Texas (Large Family owned business)
Wrap their meats in Saran wrap only.
They always have moist meat.
SO that's how you do it! You go to Dickey's and buy some BBQ and then tell all of us you smoked it yourself!
BUSTED!
I started using these a couple of years ago. The plastic can stand the heat a lot better than the regular Saran wrap. Oops! now my secret is out.When I wrap my briskets in foil, then finish cooking for 6 -8 hours, I get lots of juice in the foil which I save for making sauce.
I wonder, if you wrapped them tightly in several layers of plastic wrap, if it would hold the juices inside the brisket.
Hey, maybe I'm doing something wrong for the briskets to give up that much juice. Does everyone/anyone have the same results when wrapping in foil?
Thanks guys for the feedback, but when I asked the question, I was thinking about after you rub, everyone says wrap in plastic, normally I just put it in a pan and cover with plastic wrap.
Don't get me wrong its still a very good discussion!
I think it would work either way unless you are injecting the meat and then a couple of tight wraps of plastic wrap help keep the marinade from squirting back out of the meat.
Thanks guys for the feedback, but when I asked the question, I was thinking about after you rub, everyone says wrap in plastic, normally I just put it in a pan and cover with plastic wrap.
Don't get me wrong its still a very good discussion!
I can't say that I've done the testing myself to confirm this, but I read once (I think it was in an America's Test Kitchen book) that for the first three hours or so that rub is on meat, the salt in the rub is pulling water out of the meat. It's only after that the salt begins to be carried into the meat (and the flavoring with it.) I figure that if the juice is coming out of the meat and running to the bottom of the pan, the salt and flavorings are not going to be up against the meat when the flow would normally go the other way, so I wrap the meat to keep the rub where it's going to do the most good. But, as I said, I never really tested this.