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Bought a $90 brisket at Costco and my uncle's $15 packer from the local locker beat it
Not exaggerating. I trimmed both the same way, same rub, same offset smoker, ran them side by side at 225 for about 11 hours. The Costco one was dry at the flat by hour 9. The locker one was still jiggly.
The only thing I can figure is the locker one had more marbling in the flat, and maybe the Costco one had been sitting in that cryo bag longer than I thought. I asked the guy at the locker and he said they get theirs in on Tuesdays from a place about 40 minutes away.
So now I'm out $90 on a piece of meat I could have gotten for $15 two miles from my house. Has anyone else run into this with the big box briskets? I want to know if it was a one off or if I should just stop buying beef there entirely.
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