08/05/2017
It's been a bit since i fired up the smoker. I had the beef brisket point that I had saved from the family weekend. The point or nose as some like to call it is the top of the packer brisket separated by a layer of fat.
Tough to explain how to separate it from the flat (Thin end). Just feel along the flat towards the point (Thick end) with your knife and you will find the spot where the point and flat meet. The flat and the point have 2 different directions for the grain of the cut. You will see....
Anyways....What to do with it??🤔
How about some Burnt Ends??
Here is how it works... Make a sauce to lather them up in.
Sauce recipe:
2 cups cola
1 1/2 cups BBQ sauce
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons hone (No measuring Required)
Kosher salt to taste
Place cola in a sauce pan over let's say medium heat, and reduce the liquid to at least 1/2 the volume.
Add the BBQ sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire, soy, and butter. Heat and stir to blend everything together.
Salt to taste if you like.
This will make enough sauce to cover about 7 pounds of meat. As I only had a little over 3 pounds I had plenty left over. (used the left over sauce for a gravy for some mashed potatoes)
I cubed up the point (or if you wanted a lot of ends you could do a whole packer brisket or even just the flat) into 3/4 inch cubes.
Put the cubes in a shallow foil pan and pour over the sauce.
Stir together coating all of the brisket cubes.
Smoke them at 275 or so for 2-3 hours until the brisket cubes get a bit of a bark on them and the sauce has reduced even more and caramelized.
I drizzled a little honey over them for the last little bit.
Serve them right away or at least keep them warm until you are ready to eat.
Give them a try...