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    Help, can I hold whole briskets for a few hours and then crash cool them?

    I'm in a bit of pickle here... I'm cooking quite a bit of briskets and butts right now, going to crash cool them and reheat in two days. My plan was to pull them when ready and immediately crash cool with ice water bath as Landarc kindly detailed in this post...
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    When to rest if crash cooling butts and briskets for reheating later?

    Hi there, Kinda simple question (or is it?), when do you rest your big meats if you are crash cooling them whole and then reheating later on for serving? I would assume the rest would need to happen before cutting / pulling meats, so after reheating? A short rest would probably still be good...
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    Crash cooling in commercial deep freezer?

    Hi, I sometimes need to crash cool whole briskets and butts, and have used a commercial deep freezer for that. It doesn't contain any food, it's designated for this purpose. But it's not really a blast cooler, just a freezer with lots of power. Since whole butts are very large in diameter...
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