So went to Restaurant Depot this morning to get some boneless butts for sausage making and a few other items. As my wife went in one direction to grab stuff I headed back to the butts. So the open meat case is on my right and boxed cases of meat is on the left. I see out of the corner of my eye an open box meat box on the bottom shelf (which happens as people dig through cases to find a particular size if the meat case doesn't have what they want). At first I didn't think too much about the huge hunk of meat because my first thought was that it was a beef clod which at my RD they around in the 20-22lb range.
So took a another step and said let me take a closer look. I knelt down and saw it was a halal box and that it was in fact a brisket case. It was freaking huge, but no sticker on it. At this point I guessed 22-25lbs and didn't have intention of buying it. I do say it frequently that brisket isn't my favorite so I don't buy it a lot, but I do really enjoy cooking it. So when I found a meat guy to weight it even he thought it was huge. He thunked it down on the scale and a dead freaking even 28lbs :shock::becky::clap2:!!
He asked if I wanted to buy it and I said you bet your sweet ass, please print the label :-D. Though I didn't say the sweet ass part (just thought it).
So I have zero idea when I'm going to cook it, but even for a guy like me where there are other things that taste better I can't pass up this massive unicorn as I'll probably never see one even close to this big again. The biggest one I've ever cooked was 22lbs and this thing is no joke when you pick it up. I'm sure there have been plenty of larger briskets people have found, but this is as big as I've ever seen or even heard of.
Here are some pics.........
Here it is sitting next to the 20lbs of pork I got
28lbs dead even
Brisket prices are getting better here
Cradling the large baby. Was thinking of putting it in a stroller and taking it for a walk. Though I'm like half a man so I throw the "to scale" thing off a bit :becky:
I should have got my wife to hold it for a picture for even larger looking scale. Though I think I might not even cook it, but take it around with me and find things to take pictures of it next too
Some measuring pics
The thing is really thick and even. It tapers a little towards the end of the flat, but for a brisket this big tapering means still 2.5 inches at the far end. So going to let it wet age for a while. Might have an open weekend in a few weeks and will cook it up on my Shirley.
Well off to make sausage. Made some chicken yesterday and got pork going today. My SF is rolling now with beef ribs and will throw the sausage on later.
So took a another step and said let me take a closer look. I knelt down and saw it was a halal box and that it was in fact a brisket case. It was freaking huge, but no sticker on it. At this point I guessed 22-25lbs and didn't have intention of buying it. I do say it frequently that brisket isn't my favorite so I don't buy it a lot, but I do really enjoy cooking it. So when I found a meat guy to weight it even he thought it was huge. He thunked it down on the scale and a dead freaking even 28lbs :shock::becky::clap2:!!
He asked if I wanted to buy it and I said you bet your sweet ass, please print the label :-D. Though I didn't say the sweet ass part (just thought it).
So I have zero idea when I'm going to cook it, but even for a guy like me where there are other things that taste better I can't pass up this massive unicorn as I'll probably never see one even close to this big again. The biggest one I've ever cooked was 22lbs and this thing is no joke when you pick it up. I'm sure there have been plenty of larger briskets people have found, but this is as big as I've ever seen or even heard of.
Here are some pics.........
Here it is sitting next to the 20lbs of pork I got
28lbs dead even
Brisket prices are getting better here
Cradling the large baby. Was thinking of putting it in a stroller and taking it for a walk. Though I'm like half a man so I throw the "to scale" thing off a bit :becky:
I should have got my wife to hold it for a picture for even larger looking scale. Though I think I might not even cook it, but take it around with me and find things to take pictures of it next too
Some measuring pics
The thing is really thick and even. It tapers a little towards the end of the flat, but for a brisket this big tapering means still 2.5 inches at the far end. So going to let it wet age for a while. Might have an open weekend in a few weeks and will cook it up on my Shirley.
Well off to make sausage. Made some chicken yesterday and got pork going today. My SF is rolling now with beef ribs and will throw the sausage on later.
