Comments on: Can You Cook A Brisket In Under 6 Hours?

By: @realdocBBQ

@realdocBBQ — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Who knew WalMart actually carries Prime?? 'Only in Texas' maybe? 🤣
Ok, you mentioned several times the possibility of doing a foil boat – personally, I would NOT do that with this method, and here is why. When you foil boat, the liquid is captured and held, and and at those higher temps. that liquid is going to *boil*. I've done this before, and leaving your brisket in boiling fat and liquid for even an hour is going to turn it into overcooked, shred-on-slicing meat. When I use the foil boat method, I generally try to keep it under 300ºF or so. If you're doing it hotter than that, like the 350-400ºF in this video, I would probably just shield the end caps with some foil sheets. OR I would do the foil boat, but not go quite SO hot. The foil boat holds in heat and moisture and helps speed the cook anyways, so doing it around 300 or so, you're not going to lose much, if any, speed in the cook. This has just been my experience with foil boat – it's an 'alternative' to hot & fast, but shouldn't be used when cooking TOO hot & fast. It'll shave several hours off a traditional low & slow cook, so do your hot & fast bark building method for the first part, through the stall, then foil boat it, but don't push temps any higher, really. I think that might be the ticket. Give it a shot, brother! Thanks for your content! Let me know your thoughts – but I've done the 'over 300ºF' on a foil boat and ended up with mostly shredding flat meat, which no one wants… unless you run one of those sketchy food trucks that sells mostly chopped brisket sandwiches drowned in sauce! 😭

By: @ndnchief97

@ndnchief97 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

For those of you that can see this, DONT DO THIS….

By: @timothymcmiller3333

@timothymcmiller3333 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Nice honest video. I can appreciate speaking on the pros and cons of the cook

By: @mg8720-u7j

@mg8720-u7j — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Brisket is only good for 10 minutes then it degrades.

By: @TangoUniform31

@TangoUniform31 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Looks delicious! That said, where the heck did you fine prime beef at Walmart?😆I've never ever ever seen prime at Walmart. I digress, it looks great!

By: @narbecue-va

@narbecue-va — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Nice honest cook, with the pros/cons. Briskets on the WSM often were in that timeframe. I used to pre-mix my S&P and now I apply them separte for the same reason (pepper forst of course)

By: @mattstraight8179

@mattstraight8179 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Gr8 br8-Fast brisket trick-Str8

By: @tonymj1973

@tonymj1973 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

Damn he was all over the place about the results.

By: @commishg

@commishg — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

I like it that you never stop innovating when trying a new technique. As for the possibility of using foil boating at higher temps, I wonder if the foil boat would cause too harsh boiling of the juices at the higher temps and thus overcook the bottom. For pristine fat render, both fat cap and intramuscular fat, I don't think there is any comparable substitute for low and slow. But it sure is interesting to see you try. I bet you will get it as close as possible.

By: @frank_osuna

@frank_osuna — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:36:14 +0000

This could be a game changer. If you can do a pretty well rendered brisket in 6-7 hours that means you can also do ribs and a pork butt at the same time. Would love to see you attempt ribs + pork butt in the same cook on your next try! Also, how many logs did you add to get the temp up to 350 on the goldees?