What should I spray my brisket with?

In a spray bottle, combine the apple juice and apple cider vinegar, and liberally spray the brisket, working quickly as to not let heat escape. Spray the brisket each time you refresh the wood.

How do you keep brisket from drying out?

To keep your brisket moist and juicy, put a water pan in your smoker and spray it with water, apple cider vinegar, or apple juice every 30 to 60 minutes. Using the Texas crutch is another way to lock in moisture. This technique involves wrapping the brisket with butcher paper or foil when it reaches about 160 F.

What can I spray on meat to keep it moist?

1. Water Pan – Use a water pan in your smoker to maintain a humid environment so the meat doesn’t cook with hot, dry air.
2. Spritzing – Many pit-masters keep a spray bottle filled with stock, apple juice or spray butter handy, spritzing the meat when the surface starts to dry.

What does Aaron Franklin spray on his brisket?

In Aaron’s brisket recipe, there is – in addition to adding a water pan to the cooker -mention of spritzing your brisket with a liquid to help keep the meat moist. Any liquid can be used to make a spritz, but he recommends using apple juice and water.

Can I spritz brisket with orange juice?

Place the brisket flat in a gallon sized zip top bag or another glass or plastic container with a lid. Pour the orange juice brine over the brisket until it is completely covered. Press out as much air as you can and seal it up.

How do restaurants keep brisket moist?

For food safety, cooked brisket must be held above 140°F, so restaurants will use a holding oven to keep brisket at or above that temperature between the time the meat exits the pit (perhaps after a short cool down at room temperature to stop the cooking process) and when it’s sliced and served to customers.

Should I spray my brisket while smoking?

Once you put the rubbed brisket on your 225F-degree smoker, spritz it with apple cider vinegar every couple hours. When it reaches about 165F degrees and has a beautiful mahogany bark, spritz it some more and wrap it tightly in two layers of foil or peach paper. For a 11-pound brisket, this can take about 5-6 hours.

Can you spritz brisket with pineapple juice?

Place meat on prepared smoker and cook on low, 200-300F. After 2 hours, remove from smoker, wrap in foil but pour 1 cup of pineapple juice in there before you close it off tightly. The brisket will steam and caramelize in the pineapple juice. Bake in oven set at 250F for 2 more hours.

What should I spray on my brisket?

Directions. In a spray bottle, combine the apple juice and apple cider vinegar, and liberally spray the brisket, working quickly as to not let heat escape. Spray the brisket each time you refresh the wood. 5. After 6 hours, remove the brisket from the smoker and wrap tightly in butcher’s paper.

Do you Spritz brisket?

Once your smoker gets to 225 degrees add the brisket. Spritz the brisket with the Worcestershire sauce mixture every 30-45 minutes. Once the brisket develops a nice dark bark it is time to wrap. I found that this occurs somewhere in the 165-180 degree range.

What is Kansas City style brisket?

Beef brisket Kansas City-style is slow-cooked, centered on a rack over a pan of hot water in a smoker or barbecue pit. An indirect, medium-intensity heat is generated by two layers of charcoal briquettes and a few hickory wood chunks that have been soaked in water; these are placed around the pan of water.