Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

[Kung Fu BBQ]

So I get this brisket to smoke for my inlaws. A house guest was expected for Friday and they asked me to cook something. Grand. So i cooked a butt and a brisket yesterday. Ate the butt last night and threw the brisket in the fridge for morrow.
My favorite way to reheat meat is to stick it in a pot of boiling water, cryo-vac'd in a bag or something close to that. Well the brisket was farkin huge and I used a pot that had a pretty thin bottom and I also coulnd fit the brisket into my vacuum bags so I just had it in a huge zip lock. I've boiled zip locks plenty of times.

Inlaws show up and I make a joke about making boiled beef. I look in the pot and the water is black... the bottom of my bag farkin melted!!!!
I freaked out. 13 hours on the smoker, my thermo slid into that meat like butter and I'm boiling out the damn FLAVOR!?!?!?!?!?!

It must not of been free to long, cause much of the bark still had a crispness to it. It wasn't as good as my Durango brisket, exact same rub and cook times. Water.

 

[Ron_L]

I know that hindsight is 20/20, but I would never trust a ziploc in hot water.

I'm glad that the brisket still tasted OK.

 

[tkuehn5410]

I like to re-heat using a rack in the oven wrapped in foil at 240.

I am glad your brisket was saved, though! Congrats.

 

[Jeff_in_KC]

I've done that before with ribs that I'd cryovaced. Very disheartening to discover colored water. Luckily I've never experienced any damaged meat either.

Tim, don't you dry 'em out doing it that way? I think I'd prefer an aluminum pan with some beef broth in the bottom and covered with foil really well at about 225 but then again I've never re-heated anything but pork, ribs and occasionally sauced burnt ends in the oven.

 

[BBQ Grail]

I've taught cooking to Boy Scouts and adult leaders for almost 15 years. One of the items that is popular to teach is an omelet cooked in a zip lock bag. The idea is to put the eggs, pre cooks bacon, onions, bell peppers, chorizo ( or whatever) in a zip lock bag and boil it. You can then eat out of the bag and there is little mess to clean up.

A normal zip lock bag will not stand up to boiling water. It has to be a "freezer" bag and/or one that says it is microwavable. Those will stand up to hot or boiling water.

 

[Kung Fu BBQ]

Now that I think of it I don't think it was a freezer bag, I have em but only the gallon size, this bag was bigger.

 

[CarbonToe]

I use the vac bags that you seal at both ends with the vacuum sealer and I've never had one split. I do however seal twice at each end as I've had then burst when vacuuming.

 

[SmokeWatcher]

And I bet it was still the best beef they've had. Glad it worked out for you in the end.

 

[tonto1117]

It also helps if you don't have the water at a rolling boil...just a gentle roll, Iv'e had pretty good success that way without any blowouts.

 

[Beertender]

I can't remember a brisket I wouldn't eat. ..... Well maybe one but the guy was a smart arse farker and he probably boiled ribs before smoking yet he knew everything. I'm sure we all know someone like that. But thats another story.