Well finally did it ! worked my way up to a brisket !! been hesitating due to the price of the larger briskets being north of $80.00
a lot of money if you have the potential to screw it up, but wandering through Costco the other day found a small 8 lb brisket reasonably priced so I took the plunge !
Used the KISS method ( keep it simple stupid ) Texas style, salt , pepper, a little onion and garlic and nothing else except for a little Italian dressing as a binder. Filled the hopper on my 1600 crossed my fingers and hoped for the best, its hot in Phx. so set the temp to 185 and according to ambient temp probe the smoker maintained that temp but my set up said 225 , since as always the internal temp is the determining factor I smoked to 165 degrees pulled it, wrapped in pink butcher paper and put it back in smoker till internal temp 205. left it wrapped, put in cooler to rest 2 hrs. the cook time since it was a small brisket only 8 hrs, with rest total of 10 hrs.
Well ( drum roll please ) the bark was perfect, the brisket was moist, tender and juicy and extremely tasty !!! everything I had hoped for but was nervous about !! IM A HAPPY MAN !! I'm no pit master the smoker did all the work , all I had to do was monitor it, the wi-fi/ blue tooth made that easy from my recliner !!! another successful Pit Boss cook.