scooter
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Recently cooked this National Beef USDA Select 12lb brisket purchased from Smart & Final. It was nicely flexible and had a beautiful form with a fairly even toe. Not much marbling but I expect that from Select grade. Put it in the freezer a couple months ago until recently when I wanted to do a test brisket cook so pulled it and defrosted. When I got it out of the cryo this massive gash appears! Could not see it through the cryo. The exterior meat looks gray because it got exposed to oxygen during the 4 day defrost period because of a hole in the cryo (sustained during the freeze period).
I've only cooked about 30 briskets and have seen some shoddy knife work, as all of you have I'm sure, but this grand canyon of a gash leaves me wondering what the heck was this butcher thinking about because his mind was quite obviously not on his knife work!! Also wonder if he lost his thumb in the process.....
I probably could have pinned it on somehow but was so disgusted I just cut "mini me" off the brisky. I didn't weigh it but figure it weighed about 2 lbs easy. It's by far the worst knife work I've seen from a butcher on any cut of meat!
What's your worst butcher story??
I've only cooked about 30 briskets and have seen some shoddy knife work, as all of you have I'm sure, but this grand canyon of a gash leaves me wondering what the heck was this butcher thinking about because his mind was quite obviously not on his knife work!! Also wonder if he lost his thumb in the process.....
I probably could have pinned it on somehow but was so disgusted I just cut "mini me" off the brisky. I didn't weigh it but figure it weighed about 2 lbs easy. It's by far the worst knife work I've seen from a butcher on any cut of meat!
What's your worst butcher story??
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