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[texasbrew]

I found this old post by Bentley regarding how to cook a brisket on an FE style grill (with new flame/sear zones this may apply to other cookers as well):

I know you wanna hear from folks that have cooked a brisket on the FE 1000, specially FE and Larry, but if you will indulge me too, I am curious how their technique will differ from how I$ would do it.

1 Fat down.
2 Top Rack. (I would sear the brisket on high heat for 10 minutes on each side on the grill, then apply rub)
3 240°
4 Entire time at 240°
5 170°
6 240°
7. After brisket reaches 200° internal, turn pit down to 215° and cook for 1 hour.
8. Looking for ward to this myself.

Has anybody ever done this?  Could the fatcap ignite?

I am contemplating doing my next brisket and wanted to know what I might be up against as far as the sear portion goes.

[Bentley]

I wrote this?  I have a very bad memory is why I ask.  I could see it, the mad scientist mode I guess.  I wonder when it was?  Was I getting ready to PT the PG500 I wonder?

Not sure what I was thinking on the sear and then rub, probably trying to steal an idea I had seen or heard.  Fat down, well that has always been my MO...I guess by top rack I meant zone 3.  170° must have been IT and into pan with foil and then back to 240°. 

7. After brisket reaches 200° internal, turn pit down to 215° and cook for 1 hour.

The most telling thing is the above quote...This was something I had heard Todd Eves of the CBBQA did, but this would have been 3 years before Pelletheads ever started, and I had learned that X temperature and Y amount of time after that was reached was not an exact science.  So I had quite using that technique by then...

[Bentley]

It sure will be some interesting data if you do it!

[texasbrew]

Hey Bentley -

Here is a pic from that post that may jog your memory.

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It was roughly 8 years ago.

[Bentley]

Looks like it was before I PT the PG500, not sure when that was.  Did I start the thread?  My IP address has been banned from using Pelletheads by one of the Global Moderators, so I can no longer access the site!

[texasbrew]

It looks like somebody named BDB did.  In 2010 I think that there were a lot of step by step how to cook meat xyz for the PG1000 threads.  I used this thread shortly after I had purchased my PG500 almost 5 years ago but never got around to the sear method (probably need to make sure the fire extinguisher still works before I throw fat cap side down in zone 1 ).