Christmas Eve Briskets and Sunday Chili - pron heavy!

We decided to do something different for our annual Christmas Eve dinner with friends and neighbors this year so I went to RD and got a couple of these:

One of them was pretty big

We already had these, so we thought we'd cook 'em to give as gifts:

Everybody got an injection, then went into a bath overnight

The next morning I fired this up,

rubbed these down,


and tossed it all in here for a few hours.


When I took them out they looked like this and we had a nice Christmas Eve feast with a few friends (we also made a 17 lb. ham in the oven, no pix!).






Today, some of the leftovers got turned in to 10 QTS of chili


I added 4 cups of water, 2 cups of brisket "jus", 2 qts. of tomato juice and some of this stuff

toasted cumin seed

chili paste made from the reconstituted dried chilies

and let it simmer for a couple hours

Topped with a little cheddar and ate it


The End :bow:

I'm really starting to hate Photobucket! I tested all the links before I posted this last night and they were working, but PB was really erratic when I tried to preview my pix. I'll see if I can repair the links...

And Now...The Rest of the Story!

What a PITA!! Photobucket deleted all the photos I uploaded from making the chili :mad2:, so I had to upload them again. Of course, now they all have different link codes, so they won't show up and I can't edit the original post :doh:...guess I'll have to stick 'em in here:










We apologize for the technical difficulties, thanks for your patience (@%^$*&!# Photobucket!!!)! It's working when I preview it anyway...keeping my fingers crossed!

Cabin Fever said:

Good lord that looks amazing! Btw, do you still get decent smoke flavor when cooking in pans on your gravity feed? I've always been curious about that.

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Thanks!

And yes, but I didn't keep these panned for the whole cook. There was so much liquid in the pans after 4 hours, I drained it off and reserved it, then put the briskets directly on the racks for a couple hours (from about 165 to 185). Tossed 'em back in the pans with a foil cover to finish and both had excellent smoke flavor. It does tend to be lighter than a stick burner, but not in a bad way.