What in the hell is a corned beef brisket?

[Knoxville-Horn]

As some of y'all know from my other thread, I'm getting ready to smoke my first brisket. I mentioned as much to my boss today and he handed me a corned beef brisket.

Ok, I know what corned beef is -- the meat on a reuben.
I know what a brisket is.

What is a corned beef brisket? Is it processed (like spam)and put into brisket form or is it something completely different. I noticed, for example, that it has far less fat than the regular briskets that I've seen. I'm not a big fan of corned beef but figured I could, at least, practice my smoking skills on this piece of meat and save myself $20-$30 if I screw it up.

 

[scottsins]

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[NCAAFBALLROX]

This reminds me that I was probably 12, maybe 13 years old by the time I realized that "Damn" & "Yankee" were two different words.

 

[NickDanger]

Corned beef is made from brisket. So is pastrami. I made some myself a few months ago. I think it was an Emeril's recipe. Brisket is just the cut of beef. Many around here just say "brisket" thinking it is some sort of sacrilege to prepare brisket any way other than the way they like to do it (usually smoked).

Think of it like this. A grilled ribeye, a broiled ribeye, a blackened ribeye, a chicken fried ribeye. It's just a different way of preparing it. You wouldn't blacken a ribeye and then chicken fry it. You wouldn't prepare a brisket as corned beef and then smoke it. It's already cooked.

BTW, many of the best Reuben's are made with pastrami as opposed to corned beef, but it can go either way. I had a really tasty one from Central Market yesterday.

 

[hornian]

I like corned beef. It's basically pickled meat.

 

[Napoleon]

I like Reubens. (Not Paul Reubens of course, just the sandwich.

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[gsoda3]

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[S197HQQKEM]

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[12thStudStan]

Brisket is basically boneless skinless breast of bovine and not everybody adheres to the highest & best use principle when preparing it for human consumption. I once ate the abomination known as corned beef & cabbage and it spawned the most painfully vile and wretched growler I have given birth to (outside of my ill-fated introduction to non-native Indian cuisine) and made my backside sputter like a free lawnmower. The aftermath was if I had crapethed forth a live rat snake with a freshly killed skunk still in it's belly and following that ruinous event I swore my allegiance to smoked brisket.

 

[pescado_rojo]

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[NickDanger]

It was the cabbage. Corned beef has its place. Cabbage is notorious for intestinal difficulties.

Chicken fried Ribeye is not really uncommon at all. I don't care for it, but it's out there. They serve it at the San Antonio Country Club. It's way too thin for me, but it's obviously a better cut of meat than what normally goes into a Chi-Fri.

 

[Brisketexan]

Pescado, you're just jealous that you didn't come up with that turn of phrase yourself. Which is amazing, considering the ample inspiration your gastrointestinal tract has given you over the years.

I loves me some corned beef. A good corned beef reuben is a thing of beauty. I even like corned beef and cabbage. Around St. Patrick's day, you can get a hunk of corned beef brisket at Randall's. I wait until a day or two after -- they have them all marked down to 99 cents a pound (because nobody here really knows what to do with them). And you simmer them.

So there you have it -- in the right circumstances, I even BOIL a brisket. Like Nick said, it's just a COMPLETELY different way of cooking the same cut of meat. But he's also right in that once it's been turned into corned beef, you really aren't looking at a piece of meat that you can barbecue.

 

[Lat22]

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[NickDanger]

It IS better, but I'd still rather have a regular chi-fri or a regular ribeye. The chicken fried ribeye at Liberty Lunch did not sit well with me at all.

I think someone alluded to this, but Pastrami is just smoked corned beef brisket so you CAN put it on the smoker, but it's not going to be anything like what you would expect BBQ brisket to be. I tried this in 2007 and it turned out very nice, but it took about 3 weeks and it just wasn't worth the effort.

 

[hitbyatrain]

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[bozo_casanova]

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[clandestine]

BRINE!

 

[ImissWallyPryor]

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