We only have Sam's here in Cheyenne, WY. For Costco, we drive about 48 miles south on I-25 to Fort Collins, CO. For a while, I made the drive to CO because the briskets at Sam's weren't good. But, that's changed in the last few months. I now prefer the Angus choice. I tried the Angus choice after your video about Black's BBQ.
That Black’s video was a good one. We are planning on trying to do a “one brisket to rule them all” video like the ribs one from a few weeks ago and Black’s 2-stage cook will definitely be a part of that experiment. Thanks for always watching your support means a lot!
Here in SE Texas, I get briskets from my local HEB. I recently became a member of Restaurant Depot. Haven't purchased one there yet, but did a recon mission and they have prime and angus. Will get a couple soon. I let my Sam's business membership lapse years ago when their briskets were over priced and poor quality. No Costco near me. Over 50 years ago, when I started attempting smoked briskets, they were $.99 / lb (they didn't offer multiple grades. just "brisket") Would go on sale for $.69 / lb at local grocers (before HEB). I would stock my freezer and learned from trial and error. Burned up a lot of briskets before I got it dialed in!! Long time subscriber here .....Great video here and all your previous ones. Keep them coming.
Observation.. Both briskets are sold in the meat packer bags. The Prime from Costco was from Swift packing and the Choice from Sam's was from Excel packing. Excel and Swift butcher the cow and bag the primal cuts for retail stores. Sam's and Costco just unloaded the briskets from the truck and put in the display. Sam's and Costco didn't trim them. The quality grades Prime and Choice are added at Swift and Excel by USDA inspectors. The price of beef sold in the US are based on quality grades: Prime, Choice, Select, Cutter, Canner Prime should cost more than choice because it has more fat marbling. Angus (cow breed) has nothing to do with quality, but is a marketing gimmick to charge more. Pork uses the same breed gimmick with Duroc pigs. The benefit of buying beef from Costco and Sam's is the price value is better than a grocery store. As always buyer beware
20 years ago I worked in the Sam's Club meat dept. as wrapper/rotisserie. Nobody bought briskets back then. A case of briskets was about 60 pounds, or about 6 briskets. That's all we would sell all day. Back then we were getting Excel and IBP beef. Each day the prices were downloaded into the system for the wrapping station, and occasionally there would be a major screw-up where some prices were not input correctly by corporate.
Hey Stephen. Having spent decades in the corporate world I can assure you that the supply chain doesn't start at the meat counter. Sam's is clearly demanding and getting a higher quality of butchered beef than Costco. I guarantee there are both better Swift briskets and better (and worse) Excel briskets out there.
@@stephenmitchum5864 read my answer to him. I knew all of those things and I understand how products including food are procured. Since you clearly don’t, please refrain from commenting on any more of my content. We have a no trolls rule here.
I appreciate the video but there are so many variables that you made a conclusion based on two random briskets with different grades that make this video pretty pointless.
Not sure how. Not trying to troll, just want to better understand your thinking. I mean the Costco brisket was a prime brisket and Sam's was Angus choice
thanks for showing us how you select the cut in store, we see so many people just showing how to trim, not the real world in store judgement of the individual cuts,
I`ve smoked Briskets on my eight foot smoker on wheels for years and have cooked hundreds of them and I have found that the select ones cook just as well and choice and prime and you have a ton of money, in fact they tend to be more tender with the extra fat.
Not sure where you're shopping, but I haven't seen it under $3 in at least 7 or 8 years. Considering how many more individuals are doing backyard BBQ, I don't expect demand is going to fall off.
@@HammerShock23 Costco has choice for 2.99 on sale very often in even MCOL areas. If you live in LCOL or Midwest, you'd find brisket under 3 without sales pretty often.
Last time I was at Costco (probably 6 weeks ago) I bought a Prime American wagyu brisket, and it was the best brisket I have ever cooked. I don't know if they have them all the time but you should try one.
Those are fantastic if/when you can find them. Primarily because the supply chain is totally different for heritage and specialty breeds. A lot of care goes into those cows, including the slaughter and butchering.
My experience with Wagyu vs Prime briskets is that the Wagyu’s were more tender but the Primes had a fuller beefier flavor. I’ve been smoking briskets for a long time, and I preferred the Prime briskets.
We’ve found 100% the exact opposite in central Ohio. The Sam’s Club Prime Briskets are very poorly trimmed and far thicker fat. Your finding is interesting, we have a Costco membership specifically for brisket, chicken , ribs and pork belly.
Sam's club doesn't have a prime brisket. The brisket is called Members Mark prime not USDA prime and is cheaper than the Sam's club USDA choice. I have researched this and couldn't come up with what grade of beef Sam's club Members Mark is and why it is always cheaper than choice.
Learn the brands of the Big 4 packers. Excel is Cargill, Black Canyon is National Beef, Swift is JBS, Five Star is JBS, IBP is Tyson. Both Costco and Sam's buy Beef from the Big 4. Sam's Club is more prone to buying from Cargill and Tyson where I'm located in the Midwest Northern Missouri. Costco deals a lot with JBS for their BEEF and Pork at Costco but JBS controls 55% of all three of our major proteins in the USA being BEEF, Pork, and Chicken. In Des Moines IA I was only able to find Prime Excel Briskets from Cargill and they were imported from Canada. Beings that the USA cattle inventory is at an all-time low, down to 1956 numbers at only 27.6 Million cows. Brazil currently has 232 million cows, so you can see where we are going to get most of our BEEF in the future. People don't know nor do they have a clue this is happening and they label this BEEF product of USA because MCOOL (Mandatory Country Origin of Labeling) was repealed under Obama in December of 2015. But soon coming I'm January of 2026 the Big 4 packers won't have to label anything so it will open the floor gates for more cheap foreign BEEF into the USA since it will be voluntary for them label their product. We no longer have enough BEEF in the USA to feed ourselves, we have to import to meet demand. We are still losing 1 cattle farm every 25 minutes in the USA. The last 5 years we've lost 105,000 cattle farms in the USA. Sad, and it sucks but this is the world we live in now. Educate yourself.
Hey welcome to the channel - I don't think I've seen you here before. Of course all of this is true. What you left out though is that the process isn't just that a retailer orders and sells whatever they get. Not all Excel briskets are created equal - nor are all Swifts, etc. The buyers from Sam's are clearly focusing more on the quality of the selection than the buyers at Costco - no other way to explain that with the vast variety of quality available from any of those packers, Sam's has consistently higher quality options than Costco does. Hope this helps you with my perspective.
Most of the time when I go to Sams they have Prime briskets for sale. Costco on the other hand is almost always Choice only. Very rarely do I find Prime at Costco. That said, I've bought briskets at both and I can't recall any negatives to either.
As a former secret shopper and Asst Manager from Sam's Club I can tell you're not wrong. It might sound like I'm biased but I go to both chains for different things, Sam's meat typically but not always IS better. Costco Seafood does have an edge over Sam's Club.
@@scottsmith379 I know you're correct. It seems both chains have a problem with declining quality. I'd love to know why that is. Are the cattle not being fed as well as they once were? What is happening?
I have both memberships. Sam's seems to be more consistent quality in the meat department and have a little better selection. I have the upgraded Sam's membership and can shop 8am-10am, Mon-Fri, with minimum amount of people, no lines for check out, and max selection of everything. It can be hit or miss with Costco and it usually feels like an after Thanksgiving Black Friday sale every single time I go to Costco.
Been waiting on this video. I'm a costco fanatic but this video confirms it what I've been experiencing, Sam's brisket is better. I'm in Texas so I have the great luck that my costco and sams only carry Prime, and the angus choice at Sam's. the best brisket I've made have been from Sam's. Based on these comments, i guess i might need to try an Angus choice now. Costco for me has way too much fluff in their packer brisket, I'm trimming a good 6-8 lbs off.
@@BehindTheFoodTV haha, you got me there. Costco/sams prices are better per lb than HEB, but i have heard that sometimes HEB does stock snake river farms brisket. I'll have to check it out!
Don't know about the brisket at Sam's but I can tell you that many people open the berry packets, eat from them then close then allowing for resale. My wife and I observed this going on for about 1/2 an hour. Two shoppers would open the containers and eat grapes & berries from several packages, then close them and move on to the next package. When we notified the produce he actually watched the people do the aforementioned and said there was nothing he could do about it. I informed that there were 2 violations at least... one- theft of product and the other a violation of weights and measures. We no longer are a customer of Sam's because we figure bacteria from their hands (who knows where they were before) possibly contaminated the product and why pay for something your not getting. Especially after we had brought it to 2 managers attention. Another thing that concerned us is being forced to use their self checkout if we wanted to receive a couple of products at a cheaper price. I could not see paying to be a member and having to work to shop at the facility. I felt I was not an employee, I was a customer who was paying for services. NO MORE SAM'S CLUB for this family and a few of my friends I have told about the produce stopped being members. I will stay shopping aty COSTCO where they serve their customers and have their produce properly sealed.
Interesting... My girlfriend has costco and sams memberships. I usually lean towards Sams because I can order and pick up whole bone-in pork loins and uncut beef plate ribs. That and costco is insane busy and their parking lot is like a demolition derby.
I've never been to Sam's Club since it's extremely far away from me in my city so I always go to Costco to get brisket. Once in a blue moon I'll get lucky and they'll even have picanha for sale.
I only have a Costco in my area. Fortunately my second brisket cook ever was an 11pd prime from Costco and it turned out better than I ever expected. Costco had only 1 prime in the cooler, all the rest were Choice and much bigger.
I don't know where you are, but i paid $6.99/lb for Costco prime brisket at the Business Center last month in South San Franc over $120. I usually prefer Costco meats but i might try a brisket from Sam's next time.
@@Crowns57854 Not all of us do. Most of the country doesn't get this, but the state is controlled by San Francisco, L.A., and Sacramento. It's winner take all and they've redistricted to the point that my vote doesn't matter at all.
@@fiberjunkies Redistricting stuff doesn't matter for national votes lol. Only ever really matters for the House/local elections which republicans dominate due to geographics anyways. Senate/president/governor doesn't matter at all unless you're doing voter suppression, which is a tactic only used by the republicans anyways.
I got a brisket at Kroger. Just a regular ole one. My first brisket. Used blacks seasoning. Man I think it came out great. A little tough on flat. But blacks was great.
Costco is overall better for meat except for bone-in Pork Shoulder, definitely better at Sams. Also, Lobster Tails and Sams better although Costco has gotten better, Bacon - Oscar Meyer - much better at Sam's. But if I could only have one membership, today, it would be Costco.
If you are good at BBQ cooking, you should be able to make any piece of meat into a delicious meal. To your point, the way briskets are processed(as you pointed out), some are better than others. Well done, Sir.
You should try the Costco Business Center. They have a much bigger selection of brisket there. The price is always cheaper than the regular Costco too. The supplier can vary from time to time with any store.
Those Costco briskets look more like the Select Grade briskets Walmart will sit out here and there. Which I’ll pick up to do chopped beef and use the trim for burger/sausage. But yeah they aren’t pretty.
Sam's Club is always have here (closest Costco is 2 hours away in Knoxville, Sam's is about 40 minutes away in the tri-cities), and I've been happy with their briskets. They've usually got a basket full of Primes when I get there at 1 to 3 in the afternoon. I'm surprised that a Choice from Sam's Club beat a Prime from Costco so soundly though.
Thanks guys for doing this comparison as I not happy with Costco meat anymore either. I check to see if they have prime meat next week and will become a Sam's member and drive the 36 miles to get there and back. Thanks for the detailed how to trim too as it has been a while since I trimmed a brisket. Nick you need to be careful around a person that has one glove on as all of older men know what the single glove means.
I've bought from each location and it's a love hate relationship, both places are hit or miss. Costco had some exquisite marbling on a few, looked borderline Wagyu, while other times its looked like Stevie Wonder trimmed it before vacuum sealing. I don't think either place has their "butcher" trim on site. I also like doing the bend test and Sam's cuts seem to be good on that front. Thanks for the video!
I never bought a costco brisket before. But I bought a 3 pack of baby back ribs from there last month, and they sat in my freezer until this week. My Father In Law brought an additional 2 racks of smithfield baby backs that he bought at a local grocery store, over this week. So there I was yesterday morning with 5 racks of ribs on my little OKJ Highland. the Costco ribs look like they come from a completely different animal that smithfield. each rib in the rack is shorter and more curved, but the meat was thicker. Whereas the smithfield ribs are longer but less meat on top. Also the costco ribs had the membranes removed already which was nice. I just used salt and pepper on them and tacked them up with some blues hog original at the end. Honestly, they were both really good. The smithfields cooked about 30 min faster overall, but they were also closer to the firebox for most of the cook. I'm still trying to figure out which I like better. Ill be taste testing the rest of the weekend, because apparently when you make a pork loin roast, and 4 packages of grilled chicken thighs and legs as well for 9 total people, 5 racks of ribs is about 3 racks too many.
Sounds like a great accidental test! But you are finding that not all meat is created equal. Now if you really want to up your rib game, watch my video from 2 weeks ago....... th-cam.com/video/-PpeNnDqUFA/w-d-xo.html
Interesting experiment. I came to the conclusion that unlike a steak, when it comes to roasts, especially very fatty roasts like prime rib or brisket, I prefer choice over prime. There is so much fat in those cuts anyway, that the extra intramuscular fat from prime grade almost dilutes the flavor. Just like when you inject with beef tallow the flavor kind of gets washed out. I definitely think Prime is better for something like a steak where you are searing a large cross section of the meat. So a prime ribeye is going to be better than a choice ribeye, but in a whole roast I prefer choice. Unless its something that is naturally lean like top round. Then I would go with prime over choice for one of those.
Not fair!!!! Not fair at all. Was going to finish fasting (24 hrs so far) till morning and now I HUNGRY. LOL Looking good. Lets see if I have willpower.
I just got into smoking briskets and I’ve noticed from the time I started with Costco, till now that all their brisket has been crap lately I just thought about firing up the Sam’s Club account. That’s why I watch this video. So thanks for making up my mind for me,😂 Costco‘s out, Sam clubs in
Wow, big price differences... your USDA Prime Costco brisket @ $3.99 lb costs $6.81lb ($14.99kg) here in Toronto, Canada for a slightly lesser quality AAA Costco brisket. (equivalent to US Choice.) Although, while marbling attributes are apparently uniform between Canadian and USDA beef (Prime = Prime, AAA = Choice, AA = Select) higher grading requirements for other factors like age, muscling, colour, and fat colour in Canada could help explain the higher costs here.
Good video, I would have preferred a prime to prime but I have seen some primes that should have been choice and some choice that could have been primes so they probably weren't a whole lot different. I usually find primes make a better finished product but at the expense of more waste. The primes I cook always have less yield than other grades.
This was a prime vs choice test. Not a costco vs sams test. You might as well test Japanese wagu vs grass feed prime ribeye. Of course the prime is better... The real answer to this "test" was buy prime.
You know what's cool Dr. Josh? Is that people who don't watch the video are really apparent to everyone else. Did you get to be a doctor by not reading the whole text? Or do you diagnose your patients before seeing the test results? Go watch the WHOLE video including the END, then come on back over to apologize for wasting everyone's time with this comment. See you in 20 minutes!
Interesting take. I think having that much ultra-thin meat at the end of a thick cut will make it unusable to pretty much every cook even those who braise their brisket. Also fwiw those who braise typically only buy brisket flats not whole packer briskets.
@BehindTheFoodTV Mexicans call it suadero, literally boil it with spices amd make tacos, the more meat the better, I've not once seen them trim meat off only some fat as they remove it after the cook.
I suspect costco prime and choice brisket dont have much differences. They look the same as far as marbling is concerned. The american wagyu brisket at Costco has a lot more marbling.
In the southeast no one trims brisket before they smoke them . The fat gives the brisket the flavor , but what do I know ? I’m 82 and was taught a long time ago by old men older than me
I would think you would need to rinse and repeat. One sample is hardly a conclusion. It's an accepted TH-cam surface test, but .... I've bought Sam's club chicken for price. Their bulk packs are great. I prepare and serve the same way. I hand shred the chicken over my salad each day. In the same pack, I get very tender and stringy chicken and each pack varies in proportion and level of each end of that spectrum. I find it hard to believe that you could not buy 10 Sam's club briskets and find similar variation. It's more than the source unless the source is possibly exclusive of origin and processing. That's not going to be the case for both brands since they source from bulk company middlemen. Though, you made me want to get some brisket :(
costco does have Wagyu briskets at times like Wagyu burgers...this comparison and trimming was not equal..and i would rather have grain finish vs grass finish and Im from a 5th generation farm family
IBP, Swift, Excel, National Beef, and Certified Angus Beef, which is usually Excel. Sam's and Costco sell any and all of these brands at one time or another, and those names and the grading are what make a difference. Not whether it came from one store or another. I have personally found IBP and Swift to have more consistent quality. Here, the Sam's Clubs tend to carry a lot of Excel, and National Beef, which I have not had the best luck with.
Hi Jason - I've seen pretty solid brand consistency at the Costcos that I've shopped at over the years. Granted I haven't shopped in every region, but in Chicago, NY, North Carolina and California I've seen the same products - and the Costco buyers just aren't focused on quality anymore. It wasn't always this way though. I've only been shopping at Sam's Club for about 6 months but I've seen the same product there for the whole time in all 4 stores I visited. I think the Sam's Club buyers are putting more effort into making sure the products they get from their suppliers are higher quality (not all Excel briskets are created equal, right?).
Definitely sounds like a regional thing. Here in the deep south, Sam's never even carried Prime beef at all, until Costco started moving in, and it kinda forced their hand. Even then, Sam's still wouldn't carry it, at locations that were not fairly close to a Costco location.
24 years ago I left Sam’s and went to Costco. 4 yers ago I started keeping both memberships. I prefer sams for two reasons. The parking lot is not jammed out to the max and most of all you can use your phone to scan and purchase your items. Then when you head to the exit, the sensors they have installed pick up the items in your basket, confirm they are paid for and you leave the store never standing in a checkout line. It is a game changer. I do buy my brisket from Costco but will try my next one from Sam’s.
I haven't actually tried that but I will next time I'm over there! I keep my Costco membership for pork bellies for making bacon - but at some point it's not even worth keeping it for that if they don't get their quality act together. Thanks for the tip!
I just want to say I don’t know if it’s you or Nick that replies to the negative or snarky comments on your videos sometimes, but your replies are pure gold! 😂 One of y’all has a gift Lol!!! I don’t remember what video I was reading the comments on but I had to go get a beer and go through all comments because it was so hilarious 😆 Y’all crack me up
I wish the butchers here carried decent packer briskets at reasonable prices. Seems I can get one or the other - good brisket for $7/lb (insane) or no brisket at all at the local butchers.
It wasn't brisket, but I found a 4 package of NY strip steak that had a lot of marbling, so I figured that they were choice, but we're just under prime.
Sam's club has a Members Mark prime that is cheaper than the Sam's club USDA choice brisket. After a lot of Googling I couldn't find out what grade is Member Mark prime beef is. It certainly isn't USDA prime, my best guess is it is USDA select which is why it is cheaper than the choice. I quit buying briskets from Sam's club and buy it from a source I know what I'm getting.
I just talked to the local manager about your question. He said that Members Mark Prime is USDA Prime, and the more expensive stuff is likely both Angus and USDA graded. Hope this helps!
Butcher paper is great if you're putting the meat back on the smoker, as the smoke can penetrate it. For a tallow-rest there's no upside to paper - using foil helps it to come down more gracefully.
Well I did open the video by saying that I used to buy Costco briskets and switched to Sam's Club because of quality right? Feel like I was as upfront about my bias as a guy could be!
First-time viewer and now I'm really hungry! Maybe I missed it... when you put it in the warmer to "sleep" for the night... what's the temperature and best way to do that for someone without a fancy Treager (or whatever your warmer is)?
Hey Jeff - if you're handy, you can recalibrate your oven to act as a warmer (Google "How to recalibrate a [brand] oven"). But for about $300 you can just get the warmer I have lol. emv4.me/vevorwarmer for the Amazon link!
Interestingly enough, I just smoked two briskets for the 4th; one a Choice from Restaurant Depot and the other an Angus Choice from Sam's. I didn't do a side by side taste comparison, however the Sam's Club brisket was really nicely trimmed out of the bag. No weird cuts anywhere, nice shape, well trimmed fat cap. The one from Restaurant Depot was a mess. Multiple slices in the meat, crazy fat cap, needed a lot of shaping. The butchering was so good on the Sam's Club brisket I was thinking about finding out who I can send an email saying how good of a job they do.
We dont have Costco or Sam's over here, and Brisket is not a normal cut of meat at our butchers. I normaly buy mine from a special butcher or a whole sale like Sligro or Hanos in the Netherlands. One big let down here is that they call the cut a brisket even at 3 Kg and it is verry lean. So looking for a right cut is realy a big pain in the butt here. Somethimes i get a good cut, or i get lucky at the local turkish butcher for a nice piece :-). Would love to get my hands on a good nice USA cut of brisket, any advice for a dutch meat lover?
Hey Marco. Actually that's a myth that's been busted lots of times. A brisket carried unwrapped the whole way always takes on more smoke than one that's been wrapped - because they keep taking on smoke. Of course you know me an my experiments.......adding it to the list!
Piedmont triad area NC here. Costco stocks screw all for prime briskets anymore. Sams club prime quality has been pretty trashy as well. US foods variants will stock prime at 4.99 a lb which sucks but the quality is acceptable
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We only have Sam's here in Cheyenne, WY. For Costco, we drive about 48 miles south on I-25 to Fort Collins, CO. For a while, I made the drive to CO because the briskets at Sam's weren't good. But, that's changed in the last few months. I now prefer the Angus choice. I tried the Angus choice after your video about Black's BBQ.
That Black’s video was a good one. We are planning on trying to do a “one brisket to rule them all” video like the ribs one from a few weeks ago and Black’s 2-stage cook will definitely be a part of that experiment. Thanks for always watching your support means a lot!
@@BehindTheFoodTV That sounds awesome! Can’t wait!
Here in SE Texas, I get briskets from my local HEB. I recently became a member of Restaurant Depot. Haven't purchased one there yet, but did a recon mission and they have prime and angus. Will get a couple soon. I let my Sam's business membership lapse years ago when their briskets were over priced and poor quality. No Costco near me. Over 50 years ago, when I started attempting smoked briskets, they were $.99 / lb (they didn't offer multiple grades. just "brisket") Would go on sale for $.69 / lb at local grocers (before HEB). I would stock my freezer and learned from trial and error. Burned up a lot of briskets before I got it dialed in!! Long time subscriber here .....Great video here and all your previous ones. Keep them coming.
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Observation..
Both briskets are sold in the meat packer bags.
The Prime from Costco was from Swift packing and the Choice from Sam's was from Excel packing.
Excel and Swift butcher the cow and bag the primal cuts for retail stores.
Sam's and Costco just unloaded the briskets from the truck and put in the display.
Sam's and Costco didn't trim them.
The quality grades Prime and Choice are added at Swift and Excel by USDA inspectors.
The price of beef sold in the US are based on quality grades: Prime, Choice, Select, Cutter, Canner
Prime should cost more than choice because it has more fat marbling.
Angus (cow breed) has nothing to do with quality, but is a marketing gimmick to charge more.
Pork uses the same breed gimmick with Duroc pigs.
The benefit of buying beef from Costco and Sam's is the price value is better than a grocery store.
As always buyer beware
20 years ago I worked in the Sam's Club meat dept. as wrapper/rotisserie. Nobody bought briskets back then. A case of briskets was about 60 pounds, or about 6 briskets. That's all we would sell all day. Back then we were getting Excel and IBP beef. Each day the prices were downloaded into the system for the wrapping station, and occasionally there would be a major screw-up where some prices were not input correctly by corporate.
Hey Stephen. Having spent decades in the corporate world I can assure you that the supply chain doesn't start at the meat counter. Sam's is clearly demanding and getting a higher quality of butchered beef than Costco. I guarantee there are both better Swift briskets and better (and worse) Excel briskets out there.
@@stephenmitchum5864 read my answer to him. I knew all of those things and I understand how products including food are procured. Since you clearly don’t, please refrain from commenting on any more of my content. We have a no trolls rule here.
@@BehindTheFoodTV You
@@BehindTheFoodTV You can't fix stupid, "and boy are you stupid"
I appreciate the video but there are so many variables that you made a conclusion based on two random briskets with different grades that make this video pretty pointless.
Not sure how. Not trying to troll, just want to better understand your thinking. I mean the Costco brisket was a prime brisket and Sam's was Angus choice
You’re right Diego. If the Prime had turned out better the test would have been a failure. This way I stand by my results.
@@BehindTheFoodTV they were different types of beef. Angus is already known for its marbling. A good Angus Choice will beat a Regular Prime any day
@@aram325302 Do you have a clue about the grading process?
First of all we can’t taste to make our own judgement, don’t get brainwashed, these 2 mensos “grading” look clueless
thanks for showing us how you select the cut in store, we see so many people just showing how to trim, not the real world in store judgement of the individual cuts,
You're welcome!
I`ve smoked Briskets on my eight foot smoker on wheels for years and have cooked hundreds of them and I have found that the select ones cook just as well and choice and prime and you have a ton of money, in fact they tend to be more tender with the extra fat.
Where I live, the Costco Business Center carries a good selection of large, whole cuts, as to where the retail Costco does not.
Good to know! Closest CBC to me is 350 miles away in Georgia!
@@charlesbolin7249 Same here. South San Francisco
Remember the days when brisket was at 2$? Oh those were the days! Great vid!
@@fredstone9016 wasn’t that long ago I’m afraid. Maybe someday we will be able to see those prices again!
Not sure where you're shopping, but I haven't seen it under $3 in at least 7 or 8 years. Considering how many more individuals are doing backyard BBQ, I don't expect demand is going to fall off.
@@HammerShock23 upper Midwest. They’ve been having some great chicken and pork sales recently.
Kroger had it recently at 1.99@@BehindTheFoodTV
@@HammerShock23 Costco has choice for 2.99 on sale very often in even MCOL areas. If you live in LCOL or Midwest, you'd find brisket under 3 without sales pretty often.
Last time I was at Costco (probably 6 weeks ago) I bought a Prime American wagyu brisket, and it was the best brisket I have ever cooked. I don't know if they have them all the time but you should try one.
Those are fantastic if/when you can find them. Primarily because the supply chain is totally different for heritage and specialty breeds. A lot of care goes into those cows, including the slaughter and butchering.
My local Costco has them quite a bit more but prices are like $150 plus. I need to try once.
@bobby350z where exactly is this costco. I've never heard of this. And I'm a Costco Meat Cutter
My experience with Wagyu vs Prime briskets is that the Wagyu’s were more tender but the Primes had a fuller beefier flavor. I’ve been smoking briskets for a long time, and I preferred the Prime briskets.
Happy 4th of July Al. Enjoy the weekend
@@SmokingDadBBQ thanks James! Happy belated Canada Day!
what kind of gloves are you wearing and where from thx great video cheers from Vulcan Canada
Costco is higher quality everything across the board.
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Not the Costco produce sorry to say!
We’ve found 100% the exact opposite in central Ohio. The Sam’s Club Prime Briskets are very poorly trimmed and far thicker fat. Your finding is interesting, we have a Costco membership specifically for brisket, chicken , ribs and pork belly.
sams briskets vary so much from what store and who they have employed
Very interesting - I wonder if the meat buyers are regional?
Glad to see a Columbus Costco shopper in here 😊. I'm a meat cutter at the easton store
Sam's club doesn't have a prime brisket. The brisket is called Members Mark prime not USDA prime and is cheaper than the Sam's club USDA choice. I have researched this and couldn't come up with what grade of beef Sam's club Members Mark is and why it is always cheaper than choice.
@@KENNEY1023 my guess is that the Waltons own a cattle farm somewhere and when they can source it from there, it keeps the price down
Learn the brands of the Big 4 packers. Excel is Cargill, Black Canyon is National Beef, Swift is JBS, Five Star is JBS, IBP is Tyson. Both Costco and Sam's buy Beef from the Big 4. Sam's Club is more prone to buying from Cargill and Tyson where I'm located in the Midwest Northern Missouri. Costco deals a lot with JBS for their BEEF and Pork at Costco but JBS controls 55% of all three of our major proteins in the USA being BEEF, Pork, and Chicken. In Des Moines IA I was only able to find Prime Excel Briskets from Cargill and they were imported from Canada. Beings that the USA cattle inventory is at an all-time low, down to 1956 numbers at only 27.6 Million cows. Brazil currently has 232 million cows, so you can see where we are going to get most of our BEEF in the future. People don't know nor do they have a clue this is happening and they label this BEEF product of USA because MCOOL (Mandatory Country Origin of Labeling) was repealed under Obama in December of 2015. But soon coming I'm January of 2026 the Big 4 packers won't have to label anything so it will open the floor gates for more cheap foreign BEEF into the USA since it will be voluntary for them label their product. We no longer have enough BEEF in the USA to feed ourselves, we have to import to meet demand. We are still losing 1 cattle farm every 25 minutes in the USA. The last 5 years we've lost 105,000 cattle farms in the USA. Sad, and it sucks but this is the world we live in now. Educate yourself.
Hey welcome to the channel - I don't think I've seen you here before. Of course all of this is true. What you left out though is that the process isn't just that a retailer orders and sells whatever they get. Not all Excel briskets are created equal - nor are all Swifts, etc. The buyers from Sam's are clearly focusing more on the quality of the selection than the buyers at Costco - no other way to explain that with the vast variety of quality available from any of those packers, Sam's has consistently higher quality options than Costco does. Hope this helps you with my perspective.
Most of the time when I go to Sams they have Prime briskets for sale. Costco on the other hand is almost always Choice only. Very rarely do I find Prime at Costco. That said, I've bought briskets at both and I can't recall any negatives to either.
Thanks for watching and chiming in!
Great video Al, here in Vegas Costco meat prices are NUTS!!! I enjoyed watching!
Thanks Tom - I didn't know you were watching! 3K subs looks like you're doing something right! Keep up the good work - and ALWAYS BET ON RED! :-)
As a former secret shopper and Asst Manager from Sam's Club I can tell you're not wrong. It might sound like I'm biased but I go to both chains for different things, Sam's meat typically but not always IS better. Costco Seafood does have an edge over Sam's Club.
Thanks for the validation Scott! Can you get the Sam’s people to start carrying whole pork bellies please?!?!?!?!
@@scottsmith379 I know you're correct. It seems both chains have a problem with declining quality. I'd love to know why that is. Are the cattle not being fed as well as they once were? What is happening?
@@goodoldbubba6620 it's about the Almighty dollar bro and shareholder value....it's not about us the consumer.anymore.
I have both memberships. Sam's seems to be more consistent quality in the meat department and have a little better selection. I have the upgraded Sam's membership and can shop 8am-10am, Mon-Fri, with minimum amount of people, no lines for check out, and max selection of everything. It can be hit or miss with Costco and it usually feels like an after Thanksgiving Black Friday sale every single time I go to Costco.
Walmart has very high quality beef. I shop Costco as it’s so much closer than Sam’s club. Great video!
Thanks for watching, Ben. I'm hoping Costco sees this and steps up their quality controls!
I wonder if different regions get their beef from different areas. Here in Arizona, I find the beef at Costco is much better than Sam's.
@@russ350r that’s really interesting. You could be right!
The only difference for me is how they are cut by the in house butcher. And I buy it at Sam's because it is 2 miles away instead of 6.
Been waiting on this video. I'm a costco fanatic but this video confirms it what I've been experiencing, Sam's brisket is better. I'm in Texas so I have the great luck that my costco and sams only carry Prime, and the angus choice at Sam's. the best brisket I've made have been from Sam's. Based on these comments, i guess i might need to try an Angus choice now. Costco for me has way too much fluff in their packer brisket, I'm trimming a good 6-8 lbs off.
Ok I agree with everything you said BUT….. you live in Texas and you don’t buy yours at H.E.B.? I thought that was like going to church down there! 😂
@@BehindTheFoodTV haha, you got me there. Costco/sams prices are better per lb than HEB, but i have heard that sometimes HEB does stock snake river farms brisket. I'll have to check it out!
Don't know about the brisket at Sam's but I can tell you that many people open the berry packets, eat from them then close then allowing for resale. My wife and I observed this going on for about 1/2 an hour. Two shoppers would open the containers and eat grapes & berries from several packages, then close them and move on to the next package. When we notified the produce he actually watched the people do the aforementioned and said there was nothing he could do about it. I informed that there were 2 violations at least... one- theft of product and the other a violation of weights and measures. We no longer are a customer of Sam's because we figure bacteria from their hands (who knows where they were before) possibly contaminated the product and why pay for something your not getting. Especially after we had brought it to 2 managers attention. Another thing that concerned us is being forced to use their self checkout if we wanted to receive a couple of products at a cheaper price. I could not see paying to be a member and having to work to shop at the facility. I felt I was not an employee, I was a customer who was paying for services. NO MORE SAM'S CLUB for this family and a few of my friends I have told about the produce stopped being members. I will stay shopping aty COSTCO where they serve their customers and have their produce properly sealed.
That must have been traumatic. Hopefully you keep having great experiences at Costco!
Great video guys! Those look fantastic!
Thanks Brian!
Interesting... My girlfriend has costco and sams memberships. I usually lean towards Sams because I can order and pick up whole bone-in pork loins and uncut beef plate ribs. That and costco is insane busy and their parking lot is like a demolition derby.
lol even more reasons!
Totally agree. Sam’s club meat seems to be better quality and taste. I go to both stores often.
I just hope maybe this puts some pressure on Costco to up their game!
I've never been to Sam's Club since it's extremely far away from me in my city so I always go to Costco to get brisket. Once in a blue moon I'll get lucky and they'll even have picanha for sale.
I'm working on some mail order alternatives Paul - stay tuned!
Great video, guys!
Thanks William!
Can’t wait for this one !!! ❤
@@Mrhandfriends Now I need to come over and compare the UK brisket sources!
I only have a Costco in my area. Fortunately my second brisket cook ever was an 11pd prime from Costco and it turned out better than I ever expected.
Costco had only 1 prime in the cooler, all the rest were Choice and much bigger.
What's your third going to be?
Trimming can DEFINITELY be better
@@vaajchang no question about it. I suck at trimming brisket.
*You can always tell if a cooking video is good by how much you salivate.*
ha ha I love it
Cattle probably came from the same place
I don't know where you are, but i paid $6.99/lb for Costco prime brisket at the Business Center last month in South San Franc over $120.
I usually prefer Costco meats but i might try a brisket from Sam's next time.
Man, you got it bad out there in Cali! I'm in North Carolina.
Holy crap $59 for prime brisket??? You'd fall over if you saw what we are paying in Ca for it!
I think you’re paying the cow fart tax out there. Plus Gavin needs a new limo 🤷♂️
Just keep voting Dem in CA.
@@Crowns57854 Not all of us do. Most of the country doesn't get this, but the state is controlled by San Francisco, L.A., and Sacramento. It's winner take all and they've redistricted to the point that my vote doesn't matter at all.
@@fiberjunkies Redistricting stuff doesn't matter for national votes lol. Only ever really matters for the House/local elections which republicans dominate due to geographics anyways. Senate/president/governor doesn't matter at all unless you're doing voter suppression, which is a tactic only used by the republicans anyways.
I got a brisket at Kroger. Just a regular ole one. My first brisket. Used blacks seasoning. Man I think it came out great. A little tough on flat. But blacks was great.
Costco is overall better for meat except for bone-in Pork Shoulder, definitely better at Sams. Also, Lobster Tails and Sams better although Costco has gotten better, Bacon - Oscar Meyer - much better at Sam's. But if I could only have one membership, today, it would be Costco.
If you are good at BBQ cooking, you should be able to make any piece of meat into a delicious meal. To your point, the way briskets are processed(as you pointed out), some are better than others. Well done, Sir.
Angus choice can be better than prime when it comes to brisket, tri tip, chuck roast.
Clearly! Thanks for watching!
Black Angus is good. Sam's Black Angus cowboy ribeye's are really good too.
You should try the Costco Business Center. They have a much bigger selection of brisket there. The price is always cheaper than the regular Costco too. The supplier can vary from time to time with any store.
Closest one to me is 349 miles away 🤧
Those Costco briskets look more like the Select Grade briskets Walmart will sit out here and there. Which I’ll pick up to do chopped beef and use the trim for burger/sausage. But yeah they aren’t pretty.
Exactly. And that was Prime.
So, what say nationwide we increase the number of processing plants and slow down the cut lines just a touch so everyone gets that much better cuts?
Sam's Club is always have here (closest Costco is 2 hours away in Knoxville, Sam's is about 40 minutes away in the tri-cities), and I've been happy with their briskets. They've usually got a basket full of Primes when I get there at 1 to 3 in the afternoon. I'm surprised that a Choice from Sam's Club beat a Prime from Costco so soundly though.
There's a huge difference in quality. Stick with Sam's and enjoy it!
Nice video. To what would you attribute the points getting done faster than the flats?
Thanks! Most likely it has to do with the time they spent over under the vertical chamber. I haven’t tested that far in for temperature stability.
That's crazy you got bill paxton eating your q, GAME OVER MAN!
Thanks guys for doing this comparison as I not happy with Costco meat anymore either. I check to see if they have prime meat next week and will become a Sam's member and drive the 36 miles to get there and back. Thanks for the detailed how to trim too as it has been a while since I trimmed a brisket. Nick you need to be careful around a person that has one glove on as all of older men know what the single glove means.
It's worth the drive, Keith. And trust me - Nick could kick my ass and I have no interest in either hand getting in range!
@@BehindTheFoodTV Smart move!
I've bought from each location and it's a love hate relationship, both places are hit or miss. Costco had some exquisite marbling on a few, looked borderline Wagyu, while other times its looked like Stevie Wonder trimmed it before vacuum sealing. I don't think either place has their "butcher" trim on site. I also like doing the bend test and Sam's cuts seem to be good on that front. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the "Stevie Wonder with a scimitar butchers knife" visual. That will carry me for a while :-)
I never bought a costco brisket before. But I bought a 3 pack of baby back ribs from there last month, and they sat in my freezer until this week. My Father In Law brought an additional 2 racks of smithfield baby backs that he bought at a local grocery store, over this week. So there I was yesterday morning with 5 racks of ribs on my little OKJ Highland. the Costco ribs look like they come from a completely different animal that smithfield. each rib in the rack is shorter and more curved, but the meat was thicker. Whereas the smithfield ribs are longer but less meat on top. Also the costco ribs had the membranes removed already which was nice. I just used salt and pepper on them and tacked them up with some blues hog original at the end. Honestly, they were both really good. The smithfields cooked about 30 min faster overall, but they were also closer to the firebox for most of the cook. I'm still trying to figure out which I like better. Ill be taste testing the rest of the weekend, because apparently when you make a pork loin roast, and 4 packages of grilled chicken thighs and legs as well for 9 total people, 5 racks of ribs is about 3 racks too many.
Sounds like a great accidental test! But you are finding that not all meat is created equal. Now if you really want to up your rib game, watch my video from 2 weeks ago....... th-cam.com/video/-PpeNnDqUFA/w-d-xo.html
Your taste tester gets it😂 I have thought how great it would be to just get bark😅.
Right?
Interesting experiment. I came to the conclusion that unlike a steak, when it comes to roasts, especially very fatty roasts like prime rib or brisket, I prefer choice over prime. There is so much fat in those cuts anyway, that the extra intramuscular fat from prime grade almost dilutes the flavor. Just like when you inject with beef tallow the flavor kind of gets washed out. I definitely think Prime is better for something like a steak where you are searing a large cross section of the meat. So a prime ribeye is going to be better than a choice ribeye, but in a whole roast I prefer choice. Unless its something that is naturally lean like top round. Then I would go with prime over choice for one of those.
@@tdtommy196 really interesting take Tommy!
Not fair!!!! Not fair at all. Was going to finish fasting (24 hrs so far) till morning and now I HUNGRY. LOL Looking good. Lets see if I have willpower.
@@btb6011 I’m so sorry to have ruined your fast! Hope you can pull it off until morning!!!!
I just got into smoking briskets and I’ve noticed from the time I started with Costco, till now that all their brisket has been crap lately I just thought about firing up the Sam’s Club account. That’s why I watch this video. So thanks for making up my mind for me,😂 Costco‘s out, Sam clubs in
That was me a few months ago! Welcome!
Wow, big price differences... your USDA Prime Costco brisket @ $3.99 lb costs $6.81lb ($14.99kg) here in Toronto, Canada for a slightly lesser quality AAA Costco brisket. (equivalent to US Choice.)
Although, while marbling attributes are apparently uniform between Canadian and USDA beef (Prime = Prime, AAA = Choice, AA = Select) higher grading requirements for other factors like age, muscling, colour, and fat colour in Canada could help explain the higher costs here.
Good video, I would have preferred a prime to prime but I have seen some primes that should have been choice and some choice that could have been primes so they probably weren't a whole lot different. I usually find primes make a better finished product but at the expense of more waste. The primes I cook always have less yield than other grades.
Interesting observation about yield. I'll have to pay attention to that going forward!
What wireless meter probe and app did you use. I'd like to purchase one.
I definitely agree that the meat products at Sam's is much better than those at Costco.
We agree Nancy!
This was a prime vs choice test. Not a costco vs sams test. You might as well test Japanese wagu vs grass feed prime ribeye. Of course the prime is better... The real answer to this "test" was buy prime.
You know what's cool Dr. Josh? Is that people who don't watch the video are really apparent to everyone else. Did you get to be a doctor by not reading the whole text? Or do you diagnose your patients before seeing the test results? Go watch the WHOLE video including the END, then come on back over to apologize for wasting everyone's time with this comment. See you in 20 minutes!
I too recently switched to Sams' but only because mine always has Prime and Costco is hit and miss.
The flat being folded over isn't an issue since not all briskets will be smoked, someone might love the fact there's extra meat on the flat.
Interesting take. I think having that much ultra-thin meat at the end of a thick cut will make it unusable to pretty much every cook even those who braise their brisket. Also fwiw those who braise typically only buy brisket flats not whole packer briskets.
@BehindTheFoodTV Mexicans call it suadero, literally boil it with spices amd make tacos, the more meat the better, I've not once seen them trim meat off only some fat as they remove it after the cook.
The Sam’s club brisket had 1 1/2 hours more smoke. Sheesh
Had nothing to do with the result. Sheesh! 🙄
I suspect costco prime and choice brisket dont have much differences. They look the same as far as marbling is concerned. The american wagyu brisket at Costco has a lot more marbling.
In the southeast no one trims brisket before they smoke them . The fat gives the brisket the flavor , but what do I know ? I’m 82 and was taught a long time ago by old men older than me
@@jimeboyd3226 lol thanks for watching Jim. I’m sure you could teach us young folk a lot! (I’m 57)
80%+ beef come from bug 4 box beef packers. same thing.
I would think you would need to rinse and repeat. One sample is hardly a conclusion. It's an accepted TH-cam surface test, but ....
I've bought Sam's club chicken for price. Their bulk packs are great. I prepare and serve the same way. I hand shred the chicken over my salad each day. In the same pack, I get very tender and stringy chicken and each pack varies in proportion and level of each end of that spectrum. I find it hard to believe that you could not buy 10 Sam's club briskets and find similar variation. It's more than the source unless the source is possibly exclusive of origin and processing. That's not going to be the case for both brands since they source from bulk company middlemen. Though, you made me want to get some brisket :(
Nick gives me real Forrest Griffin vibes.
My money's on Nick!
You should do WILDFORK brisket
I'm working on evaluating mail order options now......stay tuned!
costco does have Wagyu briskets at times like Wagyu burgers...this comparison and trimming was not equal..and i would rather have grain finish vs grass finish and Im from a 5th generation farm family
They do sometimes have Wagyu beef - but of course that wasn’t the topic here. Nor was grain vs grass. Just everyday brisket vs everyday brisket.
Isn't amazanin that our grandmothers made perfect roasts just based on weight,time and temp. No Electronical crutches. ???
IBP, Swift, Excel, National Beef, and Certified Angus Beef, which is usually Excel. Sam's and Costco sell any and all of these brands at one time or another, and those names and the grading are what make a difference. Not whether it came from one store or another.
I have personally found IBP and Swift to have more consistent quality. Here, the Sam's Clubs tend to carry a lot of Excel, and National Beef, which I have not had the best luck with.
Hi Jason - I've seen pretty solid brand consistency at the Costcos that I've shopped at over the years. Granted I haven't shopped in every region, but in Chicago, NY, North Carolina and California I've seen the same products - and the Costco buyers just aren't focused on quality anymore. It wasn't always this way though. I've only been shopping at Sam's Club for about 6 months but I've seen the same product there for the whole time in all 4 stores I visited. I think the Sam's Club buyers are putting more effort into making sure the products they get from their suppliers are higher quality (not all Excel briskets are created equal, right?).
Definitely sounds like a regional thing. Here in the deep south, Sam's never even carried Prime beef at all, until Costco started moving in, and it kinda forced their hand. Even then, Sam's still wouldn't carry it, at locations that were not fairly close to a Costco location.
The prime costco briskets are great!
Ummmmm.........did you watch the video? ;-)
24 years ago I left Sam’s and went to Costco. 4 yers ago I started keeping both memberships. I prefer sams for two reasons. The parking lot is not jammed out to the max and most of all you can use your phone to scan and purchase your items. Then when you head to the exit, the sensors they have installed pick up the items in your basket, confirm they are paid for and you leave the store never standing in a checkout line. It is a game changer.
I do buy my brisket from Costco but will try my next one from Sam’s.
I haven't actually tried that but I will next time I'm over there! I keep my Costco membership for pork bellies for making bacon - but at some point it's not even worth keeping it for that if they don't get their quality act together. Thanks for the tip!
I think it’s wild that the Angus Choice beat out the prime. Makes me wonder if Sam’s prime is that much better than Costco?
I couldn't get one for this video but I've been cooking the Sam's prime for a few months and I can tell you I'm much happier.
I just want to say I don’t know if it’s you or Nick that replies to the negative or snarky comments on your videos sometimes, but your replies are pure gold! 😂 One of y’all has a gift Lol!!! I don’t remember what video I was reading the comments on but I had to go get a beer and go through all comments because it was so hilarious 😆 Y’all crack me up
LOL it's me (Al) - and I will admit that sometimes I get in "a mood" and let both guns go ablazing for the trolls :-)
@@BehindTheFoodTV Keep it up! I absolutely love your replies! 🤣
Get to know your local butcher. That’s my go to.
I wish the butchers here carried decent packer briskets at reasonable prices. Seems I can get one or the other - good brisket for $7/lb (insane) or no brisket at all at the local butchers.
yea local here wants 2 to 3 times as much as costco or sams so nope. not happening
@@BehindTheFoodTV bummer. I just got one at the butcher for 3.99 lb. Used the Goldees method. Came out great
I make beef bacon out of this thin brisket
I LOVE that idea! Can you get it tender enough without a long slow cook?
It wasn't brisket, but I found a 4 package of NY strip steak that had a lot of marbling, so I figured that they were choice, but we're just under prime.
At Sam's Club
Hey Joe - when you can find those it's like winning the lottery sometimes!
Sam's club has a Members Mark prime that is cheaper than the Sam's club USDA choice brisket. After a lot of Googling I couldn't find out what grade is Member Mark prime beef is. It certainly isn't USDA prime, my best guess is it is USDA select which is why it is cheaper than the choice. I quit buying briskets from Sam's club and buy it from a source I know what I'm getting.
I just talked to the local manager about your question. He said that Members Mark Prime is USDA Prime, and the more expensive stuff is likely both Angus and USDA graded. Hope this helps!
I've completely switched to Sam's club briskets. I used to go to GFS but Sam's just wins hands down
You and me both. I'm looking into some of the mail order folks too - but they can be expensive!
What reason do you have for using foil vs paper?
Butcher paper is great if you're putting the meat back on the smoker, as the smoke can penetrate it. For a tallow-rest there's no upside to paper - using foil helps it to come down more gracefully.
Wish we had Sam’s Club over here :(
@@Mrhandfriends I will take you any time you come visit me!
What type of wood is used in the smoker?
These were cooked over post oak
Some serious bias against costco. I'm 8 minutes in and already know who is gonna win here.
Well I did open the video by saying that I used to buy Costco briskets and switched to Sam's Club because of quality right? Feel like I was as upfront about my bias as a guy could be!
First-time viewer and now I'm really hungry! Maybe I missed it... when you put it in the warmer to "sleep" for the night... what's the temperature and best way to do that for someone without a fancy Treager (or whatever your warmer is)?
Hey Jeff - if you're handy, you can recalibrate your oven to act as a warmer (Google "How to recalibrate a [brand] oven"). But for about $300 you can just get the warmer I have lol. emv4.me/vevorwarmer for the Amazon link!
Is Nick the guy from the full house reboot 😂
LOL
Interestingly enough, I just smoked two briskets for the 4th; one a Choice from Restaurant Depot and the other an Angus Choice from Sam's. I didn't do a side by side taste comparison, however the Sam's Club brisket was really nicely trimmed out of the bag. No weird cuts anywhere, nice shape, well trimmed fat cap. The one from Restaurant Depot was a mess. Multiple slices in the meat, crazy fat cap, needed a lot of shaping. The butchering was so good on the Sam's Club brisket I was thinking about finding out who I can send an email saying how good of a job they do.
You’re the third person to tell me RD briskets are crap. Thanks for making it easy for me to avoid them!
We dont have Costco or Sam's over here, and Brisket is not a normal cut of meat at our butchers. I normaly buy mine from a special butcher or a whole sale like Sligro or Hanos in the Netherlands. One big let down here is that they call the cut a brisket even at 3 Kg and it is verry lean. So looking for a right cut is realy a big pain in the butt here. Somethimes i get a good cut, or i get lucky at the local turkish butcher for a nice piece :-). Would love to get my hands on a good nice USA cut of brisket, any advice for a dutch meat lover?
Oh man, Dre - you might have to fly over here and we'll cook it together!
@@BehindTheFoodTV that would be an honor sirr :-)
I’m
Not a hater I love your content
I'm also not a hater I love you watching!
I think they stopped taking on smoke about 4 or 5 hours ago my friend.
Hey Marco. Actually that's a myth that's been busted lots of times. A brisket carried unwrapped the whole way always takes on more smoke than one that's been wrapped - because they keep taking on smoke. Of course you know me an my experiments.......adding it to the list!
Why didn't you wrap when you were up over 170?
Piedmont triad area NC here. Costco stocks screw all for prime briskets anymore. Sams club prime quality has been pretty trashy as well.
US foods variants will stock prime at 4.99 a lb which sucks but the quality is acceptable
@@crushingbelial you’re not far from me. Come to my Sam’s Club lol.
@@BehindTheFoodTV hey hey I've been to the one in gso and it's often so picked over
@@crushingbelial meet you in Durham? 😂
@BehindTheFoodTV haha we can get down soon buddy. I'm overdue for a Wegmans run too!
@@crushingbelial I live around the corner from the Morrisville store. Lmk when you’re coming!
Your voice sounds the same as the only Sam lol
lol you’re not the first to say that!
Costco brisket flats are always so thin. Drives me nuts.
Easy answer. Buy Sam's :-)
The same.
Why don't you use the boat coil on a brisket? Maybe do a video 195F vs 204F and boat or no boat :)
Amazing video AL!!!!
Hey George! Both of those videos are in the queue to be made!
You don't wrap them in foil and butchers paper like all the bbq boys??
what brand of off set smoker are you cooking with?
The one in the video is a Yoder. But if you're thinking about buying one, DM me on IG and I'll tell you who is making it's replacement and why :;-)
Kamado vs green egg vr treager
We've got a KJ vs Traeger vs Stick Burner one coming soon........
You didn’t even get the same grade of beef…
@@PJ-mb3ue I know right? Do you think the Sam’s Ckub brisket would have been better if I had?
1130pm on a friday night here - I want to go fire up the bbq for nibbles of some sort. Great work as always gents.
Thanks Andrew - have a great weekend I hope you find something amazing to smoke!
I've had good luck with both
I used to have good luck with Costco. Not anymore unfortunately.