Just trim down until you’re shaving the last bits away from the body of the cut. You’ll quickly find that there is a lot of fat on a brisket. Lay the brisket fat-side up on your counter and slowly and carefully start slicing away the fat cap. (Common sense, I know, but I have to mention it.) You can wear plastic or medical gloves if you want, but never start with unwashed hands. Now that you’ve assembled your tools, it’s time to break that whole beef brisket out of the package.įirst, wash your hands well. Let’s Get Butchering Your Whole Beef Brisket: The shape and flexibility of this style knife will make your task easier. in either case, you’ll want a Traditional 8-Inch Slicing/Carver Knife. If you don’t already have one of these, you can get it at most grocers, or through Amazon. It has a much more flexible blade that is more forgiving for trimming meat and will make the final product much cleaner. A far better choice is an inexpensive carving knife like the one pictured on the left. Henckels 8-Inch Chef’s Knife (Pictured on right) and use it nearly every day, it’s not really the right knife for this job. You’ll also need a plastic or teflon cutting board, so that you don’t dull your knives or scratch your counters. As long as you’ve got a bleach cleaner to finish up the job with, the paper isn’t necessary. I like to cover mine with freezer paper while working, just so I have less clean up at the end. Get rid of anything you don’t need on your surface and scrub it well. Preparation:įirst clean your counters well. It just takes a bit of planning and some time. It may seem hard at first, but really, turning this huge chunk of beef into smaller pieces isn’t rocket science.
WHOLE PACKER BRISKET HOW TO
How to turn a whole beef brisket and save a ton of $$ What you’ll start with is something that looks like this: This may differ for you, but it’s still going to be significant. 3 1-pound portions of stir fry or fajita meat.Īll-in-all, the same meats bought at the same store would cost close to $40.00, so we got just about 50% off.It’s going to turn that primal brisket into 7 different pieces, including: You already have a savings of about $1.00 per pound, and that’s if you just whack that big boy down into a few smaller brisket segments. That’s the everyday price at a national grocery chain. For the whole beef brisket we bought, the price came in at $1.90 per pound.
If you’re buying trimmed, ready to cook brisket in your local market, chances are you’re paying upwards of $3.00 per pound.
In some places the savings will be far more significant, slightly less in others.) And it all starts with a whole beef brisket. That’s up to a 50% savings, depending on prices in your area. This post will show you how to turn a $20.97 purchase into somewhere between $35 and $40 worth of prepackaged food. This may sound daunting at first, but it’s really no more difficult or time-consuming than making potatoes from scratch once you get used to it.
WHOLE PACKER BRISKET SERIES
This is the first in a series of posts designed to help you save a ton of cash on food, specifically meats, by buying primal cuts and portioning them out yourself. If you buy a large (and at first glance expensive) primal cut of meat and trim it down yourself, you’ll save money. A lot of money. What I’m going to suggest might sound counterintuitive, but bear with me. But if, like us, you’ve cut back based solely on cost, I’m going to show you how you can put more meat in your freezer, for a lot less money. If you’ve foregone meats because you chose to, that’s one thing. For other families it can mean that they can’t afford to buy enough protein for their families. For some families that just means eating less expensive meat.
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