DR
Take a breath!
After reading a few other posts in different topics, i wanted to put this thread up and ask if you inject your briskets for big, important events. I am about 50% scared to stop injecting them but not totally sure it really does anything.
I have a very important cook coming up in about a month and will be feeding about 150 people for my best friends 60th bday. I did a practice cook this weekend and cooked a nice pork butt as well as a brisket. I am pretty sure the injection in the pork butt helped. It was super flavorful and juicy. But I'm not sure about the brisket. It didn't seem to have anything "Extra".
My theory over the past few months is that the pork keeps the juices and injection inside as it doesn't contract as much as brisket. The brisket is such a dense piece of meet to begin with, has tighter muscle fibers, and it contract way more than pork and squeezes out almost everything you put inside it.
With all that being said, i am still hesitant to stop injecting my briskets. I will continue to inject pork but am really trying to talk myself out of injecting my briskets.
Any thoughts? DR
I have a very important cook coming up in about a month and will be feeding about 150 people for my best friends 60th bday. I did a practice cook this weekend and cooked a nice pork butt as well as a brisket. I am pretty sure the injection in the pork butt helped. It was super flavorful and juicy. But I'm not sure about the brisket. It didn't seem to have anything "Extra".
My theory over the past few months is that the pork keeps the juices and injection inside as it doesn't contract as much as brisket. The brisket is such a dense piece of meet to begin with, has tighter muscle fibers, and it contract way more than pork and squeezes out almost everything you put inside it.
With all that being said, i am still hesitant to stop injecting my briskets. I will continue to inject pork but am really trying to talk myself out of injecting my briskets.
Any thoughts? DR