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What happens when you cook pork belly exactly like a brisket? 🤯🔥

Low and slow, heavy smoke, wrapped, rested — the full brisket treatment.
In this video, I take a whole slab of pork belly and cook it brisket style to see if it can match (or beat) traditional brisket for tenderness, flavor, and juiciness. The results were unreal.

We’ll cover:
Why pork belly works surprisingly well cooked like a brisket
Temp, wrap, and rest just like competition brisket
Bark, smoke penetration, and fat render
Whether this is better than burnt ends or traditional pork belly

If you love BBQ experiments, backyard smoking, or finding new ways to get next-level results without a $150 brisket, this one’s for you.

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Would you replace brisket with pork belly?
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Transcript
00:00Have you ever smoked a pork belly brisket? Because today that's exactly what we're doing right here at Skull &
00:05Mortar. Let's go.
00:06The first thing we're going to do is do a quick trim of this silver skin off the top of
00:10this pork belly.
00:11Now this is totally not the right knife for this. It'll work in a pinch but you're better suited using
00:16the right tools for the job.
00:18Next we're going to start on the fat cap and we're going to season here with some of our Skull
00:21& Mortar Gravestones rub.
00:22It's a spicy SPG rub. It's pretty good stuff. You can use any SPG rub but if you're interested in
00:28this you can get it at skullandmortar.com.
00:32Make sure that you hit all the sides here. Get all the surface area you can.
00:37And then we're going to go back over it with some Skull & Mortar OG BBQ rub. Any BBQ rub
00:42will do.
00:42We're just using ours if you want it. Again it's at skullandmortar.com.
00:46We're just going to send like 500 plugs in this video. It's no big deal.
00:53Then we're going to do the same thing on the non-fat cap side.
00:56Again we're just going to hit it with some Skull & Mortar Gravestones rub.
01:02And then we're going to go back over it with some Skull & Mortar OG BBQ rub.
01:16Now it's time to get this onto the smoker. We're going to put it on the smoker at 250 degrees
01:21with some cherry wood.
01:22And I think it's going to take about 2 hours or so to get to the wrap portion of the
01:27cook.
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01:55Now it took about two and a half hours but our pork belly is finally up to 165 degrees so
02:00it's time to take it off of the smoker.
02:02We're going to wrap it up in foil. We got a dollop of butter right here on the foil.
02:07And we're going to set our pork belly right down on top of that butter.
02:11We're going to grab a little apple juice here and give it a spray down.
02:13That's going to help out with the moisture and the flavor.
02:19And then we're going to tightly wrap our pork belly so as to keep in as much of that steam
02:25as possible and allow the steam to kind of steam back up so the meat really break down and render
02:29that fat.
02:30Once we do that it's going to go back on the smoker at 250 degrees.
02:34I think it's going to take about another two hours for this one at the rate we're going to get
02:38to about a 205 internal temperature.
02:41Exactly two hours later and our pork belly is done.
02:44This thing not only looks phenomenal but it smells phenomenal.
02:48Now again we did cook this brisket style so let's cut it up like a brisket and let's give it
02:53a taste.
02:55You can see the juice is running down the sides.
02:57This thing is extremely juicy.
03:00Extremely moist.
03:01Now that we've got our pork belly brisket cut there's really only one thing left to do and that is
03:05to give it a taste.
03:16Guys it is so, so good.
03:20It's got that great Texas flavors to it but it still has all the qualities of a pork belly that
03:26you love.
03:27It's juicy, it's tender, it's full of flavor.
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03:51That being said, we'll see you guys soon with a brand new recipe.
03:55Thanks for watching.
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03:58I'm winking way too much.
04:01I made it awkward, I'm sorry.
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