Brits Try [TEXAS STYLE BBQ PLATTER] For The First Time! Paynes BBQ UK

beef brisket

🥗Healthier: turkey breast

💰Cheaper: pork shoulder

Turkey is leaner, while pork shoulder is more affordable and still flavorful.

bbq sauce

🥗Healthier: homemade sauce with less sugar

💰Cheaper: ketchup with spices

Homemade sauce can reduce sugar and preservatives.

Visit Payne's BBQ in Bristol to try a Texas platter.

Try beef crackling, pork crackling, and chicken crackling, noting their melt-in-your-mouth texture.

Discuss the origins of Payne's BBQ and how Ben started smoking meat during lockdown.

Mention the use of a small budget smoker and early mistakes with smoking techniques.

Explain the process of preparing brisket, including trimming and seasoning the night before to build the pellicle.

Smoke the brisket at a low temperature, starting around 225-250°F, then wrap it in butcher paper and increase the temperature to 250-275°F.

Cut the brisket to serve, highlighting the traditional burn end cut and preference for flat brisket with rendered fat.

Describe the homemade sausages available, including jalapeno and cheese, pork and apple, and bacon hamburger sausages.

Taste the sausages, noting the perfect smoke flavor and texture, and discuss the heat level of the jalapeno sausage.

Cooking Techniques

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