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Originally Posted by stang
Any great side options for my brisket?
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Cornbread, potato salad (I like a spicy adobo recipe), white bread.
I also usually do bacon explosion, sausages, maybe some chicken. Just to fill the smoker up.
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Originally Posted by sa226
Putting on at 2am? Getting up to spritz every few hours?
That a level of dedication i'll never reach.
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I usually crash on the couch when I'm doing an overnight cook, or in a lawn chair. Keeps me from disturbing my wife too much. It's kinda hokey, but Aaron Franklin in one of his videos talks about putting the effort in on an overnight cook as a sign of how much you care for the folks you are cooking for. He really wants to make the best brisket possible, and brisket is one of those things that rewards you for the effort I find. I've done my share of "hot briskets" in less than 5 hours and had happy people gobble them up. But I do find it pretty rewarding to babysit the smoker all night and end up with something amazing the next day. I also recognize there is no real rational reason for me to prefer my temperamental offset smoker over a pellet smoker that would be a lot less work. Dunno, just find barbecue to be kind of a zen thing for me.
That said, I don't judge anyone who is more rational about such things than I am.
