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How To Prepare A Turducken

A Turducken is essentially a Boneless Turkey, Boneless Chicken and a Boneless Duck stuffed one inside the other with a good contrasting meat—usually sausage—crammed between the layers of poultry.  The whole enterprise is tied together with twine and then slowly...

Try A Meyer Natural Angus Tri Tip

One of the best parts of my job is that I get to eat great meat on a regular basis.  Last night, I tried my hand at Tri Tip.  This cut comes to Mister Brisket courtesy of Meyer Natural Angus.  This means the beef comes from cattle that are 100% angus and certified to...

60 Days of Age Follow Up – How It Turned Out

When Geoff Hewitt asked us to age a USDA Prime Rib Roast for 60 days, we were skeptical as to how it would turn out.  But, on Saturday, January 4, he picked up his meat. The image above is what it looked like. We were skeptical as to how it would turn out.  Our...

50 Days of Age – A Rib Roast Challenge

Mister Brisket has never been a big proponent of dry aging beef.  In our experience we've found it has no discernible impact on flavor.  Enter Geoff Hewitt, a resident of New Franklin, who found us on the internet.  Hewitt emailed and wanted to know how we felt about...

Hot Dogs—Our Thoughts On What’s Best and Why

People have a lot of opinions about what constitutes a really good hot dog.  And at Mister Brisket, we're no different. But here's the thing--Mister Brisket is not just a Butcher Shop. We're also a research institute. If we sell a product, it's because through trial...
Fresh vs Frozen Turkey–Is there a Difference?

Fresh vs Frozen Turkey–Is there a Difference?

A common customer request at Thanksgiving is for a "wonderful, fresh turkey."  The wonderful part is easy--we sell you an Empire Kosher Turkey, you follow our instructions and get a great result. But the fresh part--well, that's problematic.  The simple fact is that...

Alternative Method for Roasting a Turkey

Alternative Method for Roasting a Turkey

I have an alternative to my traditional turkey roasting method.  What follows is a method I've ripped off from Julia Child,you know who she is, and, Harold McGee, the author of "On Food and Cooking" and a few other complicated tomes about the chemistry and physics of...

Making Roast Chicken

So, what's a good meal to complement two consecutive days of rain?  Well, if you run a meat shop, and you have a cooler full of good stuff, you might want to roast a chicken.  So, that's what I decided to do. I started off with one of these amazing dry pluck fryers. ...

Tell It Like It Is

So, I received a call this morning around 10am (Oct. 23) from a woman in New York. She quickly identified herself as the daughter of a long time customer and explained that her mother had been bringing her items from Mister Brisket for years. How, she wondered, could...