Brisket size question

[bgross88]

What's the largest brisket you've seen in a cooler? I just left restaurant depot and they had a 29.4 lb brisket for sale. It was a monster. I've never seen one that size. Looked like someone butchered an elephant. LOL

No I didn't buy it.

 

[rus_bro]

What's the largest brisket you've seen in a cooler? I just left restaurant depot and they had a 29.4 lb brisket for sale. It was a monster. I've never seen one that size. Looked like someone butchered an elephant. LOL

No I didn't buy it.

Came from the same cow as those ribs that flipped fred flinstone's car.

biggest iv seen in a case is around 23lbs. I though that was silly.

rb

 

[pjtexas1]

in person? 20lbs and that is almost double the size i need.

 

[smoke ninja]

There was a near 30 lbs brisket from tender D. Unfortunately i think that brisket had a drinking problem.

 

[4ever3]

28 and change at Sam's...

Brisket shouldn't be that big...

 

[jimstocks53]

Paul Bunyan's 'Blue". A sad day for children's literature - mums the word now.

 

[Jason TQ]

What's the largest brisket you've seen in a cooler? I just left restaurant depot and they had a 29.4 lb brisket for sale. It was a monster. I've never seen one that size. Looked like someone butchered an elephant. LOL

No I didn't buy it.

You didn't buy it!! :doh:. That would have been the biggest I've seen in person and cooked.

Here is a thread on a 28lb'er I bought at RD (some older pics missing, but still a lot in there)

Here is one where a friend saw a 29.19lb at sams and he bought it for me :biggrin1:

Saw a pic on FB someone shared where a guy had a 32lb'ish SRF.

 

[HunkyDory]

At Sams club two weeks ago I had the choice of a 13 lb or a 21 lb brisket for the same price per pound, $2.68. I thought to myself, what kind of a cow yields a 13 lb brisket and what kind of cow (or bull?) yields a 20+ lb brisket, and what is the likely difference in meat quality?

We went home with the 13 pounder and if I wanted 20+ pounds of brisket I think I would have bought two smaller ones rather than the larger one.

When hunting wild game like elk or deer I have had better luck with the younger, smaller animals rather than the bigger older ones. I'm not a horn hunter so my primary consideration is meat quality.

I don't know if this line of thinking translates from wild meat to domestic and I may be completely off base. I would love to hear other opinions and experiences.

 

[Burnt at Both Endz]

At Sams club two weeks ago I had the choice of a 13 lb or a 21 lb brisket for the same price per pound, $2.68. I thought to myself, what kind of a cow yields a 13 lb brisket and what kind of cow (or bull?) yields a 20+ lb brisket, and what is the likely difference in meat quality?

We went home with the 13 pounder and if I wanted 20+ pounds of brisket I think I would have bought two smaller ones rather than the larger one.

When hunting wild game like elk or deer I have had better luck with the younger, smaller animals rather than the bigger older ones. I'm not a horn hunter so my primary consideration is meat quality.

I don't know if this line of thinking translates from wild meat to domestic and I may be completely off base. I would love to hear other opinions and experiences.

The beef you find in stores will be feeder cattle, here is a little thought about that for the reading...

https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/feeder-cattle-grades-and-standards

 

[Burnt at Both Endz]

I was at Sam's a couple years ago and picked up a 25.5lb and a little over 26lb brisket out of the same meat cooler.

After trimming it appeared to me that I had about 4 more pounds of fat than normal.:sad:

 

[roadhawg]

I was at Sam's a couple years ago and picked up a 25.5lb and a little over 26lb brisket out of the same meat cooler.

After trimming it appeared to me that I had about 4 more pounds of fat than normal.:sad:

I was wondering how much of it was fat.

 

[bam]

About 25+ thought that was huge. What was the brisket going for?

 

[Norm]

An old bull would not grade out as choice. Most of them get ground up for hamburger not cuts.

My guess is you are seeing a steer that was not marketed soon enough and got too big. Some packers will dock you for sending them ones outside of a certain weight range.

 

[barry w]

I think the size has more to do with the different breeds of cattle than the age. We raised Angus charolais cross for slaughter. An Angus would finish out at 1000 A purebred charolis about 1400, the cross would finish out at 1200. The slaughter house like the charolais Angus cross.