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Oven Baked Beef Brisket
Best Oven Baked Brisket
Beef Brisket Pot Roast
FAQ
Cover the brisket and cook for 6 hours or until the brisket reaches 180°F. If you covered the brisket completely the night before, you can set the whole brisket, pan, cooling rack and all, right in the oven and leave it covered, cooking for 6 hours.
Often used for other meats that require long, slow cooking on the barbecue, such as ribs, the 3-2-1 method essentially involves firstly smoking the meat as it is for three hours, wrapping it for the second two hours, and finally finishing the cooking unwrapped for the last hour.
It's a tough cut of meat, which is why the best way to cook brisket is a low-and-slow method: Long, slow cooking makes it tender.
You can use a dedicated smoker, a charcoal grill with wet wood chips or a gas grill with wet wood chips set for indirect heat. It's important to note that BBQ is the process of low, slow dry heat cooking. Grilling is high heat, fast cooking, it's not BBQ. Cook the brisket for 7 to 10 hours.
You'll want to start out cooking the beef brisket with no cover on. This allows you to put a good crisp surface on the meat, also known as the bark. Once the bark gets a chance to develop, you'll add liquid to the roasting pan and tightly cover it with the lid so the steam gets a chance to circulate around the meat.