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I smoked a full brisket and tested whether Wagyu beef tallow really makes it better, from the trim all the way to the final slice. The brisket gets layered with all-purpose rub, OG barbecue rub, and a final seasoning pass before resting uncovered so the salt can pull out moisture and help the bark set.

From there, the brisket goes on the smoker low and slow, then gets wrapped in butcher paper with more tallow, cooked to 205 degrees, and rested before slicing. The result is a deep mahogany bark, a strong bend test, and juicy slices with a visible smoke ring and rendered fat throughout.

For fans of smoked brisket recipes, Texas BBQ techniques, beef tallow brisket, and low-and-slow barbecue, this is a practical brisket cook with a clear payoff. It also fits search intent for BBQ tutorial, brisket wrap in butcher paper, smoked beef brisket, and wagyu tallow cooking.
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00:00I'm going to show you the one trick that all real Texas pitmasters know,
00:04so you can cook at home like a real award-winning pitmaster.
00:08Let's go with the Wagyu beef tallow brisket.
00:16So now the first thing we have to do with this brisket is we have to trim it up.
00:19It does have some good intermuscular fat in there, so you can tell this is going to be a nice
00:24looking brisket,
00:25but none of this stuff here is going to render. So let's get it the hell out of here.
00:29I got my Dallstrong boning knife, link in the bio down below.
00:38So I think for the most part we're in pretty good shape here.
00:42I think we're going to leave all that how it is. Now I am going to leave some of this
00:45fat on here,
00:46maybe a little more than I normally would. Got a nice little ugly butcher cut right there.
00:50That's from the butcher. That sucks, but it's not a competition brisket, so it doesn't really matter.
00:55But you know, we do like our briskets to look as good as possible, right? So this fat right here,
01:01I feel pretty comfortable that it's going to render out because it's mostly just sitting on the surface
01:04there. And we're going to cook this brisket for like 20 hours, so I don't really anticipate that
01:11being an issue as far as rendering out. I'm going to season these with the OG rub and the AP
01:16rub.
01:16Check out that new branding looking sexy as hell, if I do say so myself. Perfect for layering your
01:22briskets. We're going to take some of these big pieces of fat. Like, look at that. Beautiful,
01:28right? And we're going to go ahead and throw them in this little pan over here.
01:32And we're going to throw this in the smoker with our brisket and purely just to render and create
01:40additional tallow. So we're going to kind of cheat this tallow for the final step. I know
01:45we said we're doing Wagyu and we aren't. Like I said, just kind of cube this up.
01:55That should be plenty right there. So before we get to our final step with this fat right here,
02:00we're going to go ahead and season our brisket. Layer one is going to be our all-purpose rub.
02:04The all-purpose rub has got great salt, pepper notes, as well as a couple other things. It's just
02:10really perfect for all meats, but especially beef. And we're just going to give it a light, even
02:18coating. You don't have to go too over the top with it. You just want to make sure that you
02:22hit
02:23everything. Get down in any, if you've got cut marks or anything like that, go ahead and make sure
02:28you get those. Now, before we flip it over, we're going to go ahead now and we're going to come
02:32back
02:32with our OG barbecue rub, skullandmortar.com. What this is going to do is add some deeper,
02:39richer pepper notes, like the paprika, the cayenne, all of that stuff, the chili powder,
02:45which is delicious on beef. And our final step is going to be, I have one last bottle of the
02:53God Save the Queen rub. We're trying to get it back in stock. We know that it's super popular.
02:57It just kind of is what it is. We're going to go ahead and hit that down there. I know
03:03you're probably
03:03not as of the time of this video going to be able to get this. So I would use some
03:09Montreal steak seasoning will work perfect. That's just going to create like nice pops of flavor.
03:15And we are going to kind of push that down since we're going to flip our brisket. We do want
03:19to
03:19kind of push that in just a little bit. And apparently we're still going to lose 98% of it
03:25all over the
03:26bottom JK. It wasn't that much. Everything's going to be fine guys. Now we're going to come back over
03:31this bottom part, the fat cap with our AP seasoning once again, back over again with our barbecue rub.
03:41We're going to give it a healthier coat this time. We want to give it a real thick coat on
03:48this part
03:48here because this we're going to cook this fat side up. So we want to make sure that we really
03:54get that
03:56fat cap. And then last but not least, we're going to go over it one more time.
04:04With that God save the queen. Again, I would recommend some Montreal steak seasoning
04:08or some sort of Windsor style rub. Now we want to let this macerate for a little bit. What's going
04:16to
04:16happen now? The seasoning here, the salt is going to pull out the moisture and it's going to really
04:21adhere this seasoning to the beef, but we have to allow that to happen. So we're going to throw it
04:26in the refrigerator for just a couple hours. We're going to let it sit uncovered. Our final step before
04:32we get this stuff on the smoker is going to be to take some of this Wagyu beef tallow. We
04:37got this off
04:38of Amazon. The link is in the description and we're just going to plop some of that down on there
04:42so that as this tallow renders out, this Wagyu beef tallow will render in with it and kind of
04:48richen it up. Now we're going to use this later to drip over our brisket during the rest period.
04:56So this is not something that we need to worry about being 100% Wagyu like we will in future
05:03steps, but we're just going to kind of cheat the Wagyu into this just to get a really good, delicious,
05:09flavorful, fat drip.
05:42All right, so we got our fat here and we got our brisket here. We got them both on the
05:47smoker.
05:49You can't really tell because it's humid as hell out here, but it's just under 200 degrees.
05:54So we're going to leave this here. We're going to let this cook all night. We're going to check
05:57it first thing in the morning. It will not overcook. Guys, our brisket is now at an internal
06:03temperature of about 170 degrees. So what we want to do now is we want to get our butcher paper.
06:08We're just going to slap some Wagyu beef tallow down just like that. Just a big ass scoop.
06:14We're going to take our brisket, set it directly on top.
06:20Okay. Now this is where a lot of people kind of mess up because that extra fat will kind of
06:26bland out
06:27your brisket a little bit. We don't want that. So we're going to come back over it with our barbecue
06:32rub.
06:32And the reason we're going to do that is because the barbecue rub has the most flavor to it. It
06:38has
06:38the biggest depth of flavor. So we want to keep that flavor high. So we're going to hit it with
06:43one more
06:44blast. Now we're going to get this back on the smoker and we're going to continue to let it right
06:48out at extremely low temperature. We're just going to be at 220. Guys, we've had this brisket on the
06:54smoker now for 18 hours. It is up to 205 degrees, but we have one more step. Remember when I
07:02told you we were going to cheat that Wagyu beef tallow? Well, there it is my friends. And now
07:06we're just going to pour this right over the top of the paper and just kind of let that soak
07:12through
07:12to the paper.
07:17And that's all we need this extra fat for and this extra tallow for. So I'm going to get rid
07:21of this,
07:21but we're going to let this sit for about two hours. And then we're finally going to come back
07:25and slice this bad boy and see what the hell is really going on underneath this paper.
07:32So this is where I pretend like I didn't forget to turn the microphone back on and we
07:36gently tear this paper open. We showed a little love. We're not too rough with it though. You know
07:40what I mean? We got to treat it with a little bit of respect. Just kidding. Go ahead and tear
07:45into it.
07:46It's just paper, man. Do whatever you're going to do. Pop this paper open. You can tell it's
07:50absolutely soaked with moisture, which is exactly what we wanted. Look at this. We got a beautiful
07:56bark on here. It's a beautiful, deep, rich mahogany color, which is exactly how I like my bark.
08:04And you can tell the whole thing is literally passing the bend test right now.
08:09Let's go ahead and cut into this. Looks like the grain is kind of running this way. So I'm going
08:14to pop
08:14on in here. Look at that. Yeah, it smells wonderful. It looks wonderful.
08:21Nice, even slices. You want them to be about the thickness of a pencil apart as much as possible.
08:29I'm using my Dal Strong Omega series knife here. I think they're out of stock, but we do have a
08:34link
08:35in the description below to the Shogun series. Boom. Bend test pass. Pops right apart. Perfect.
08:42Now look at this face. Look at it. That's the face of a man who's eaten a lot of food,
08:47especially brisket. Absolute happiness and ecstasy. Going back for a second bite. It's so
08:54good, man. The umami flavor is overpowering the beef. It's just so rich, so delicious. Let's cut it
09:02down the middle here and let's see what we got. Guys, I'm not even squeezing and just look at that.
09:07It's just
09:07me normally picking it up and the juice literally just cascades right out of there. Let's cut this in
09:12half and see what we're working with. Let's really look at that point. Look at that smoke ring. Look
09:17at all that moisture. You can see that we got the fat is deep inside and it's just all rendered
09:22out.
09:23It's just pouring out. Let's give it a little squeeze there and you can just see it's a literal waterfall.
09:29So guys, please hit that like, hit that subscribe, leave a comment down below. Let me know
09:33some of your favorite tips and tricks. Check us out at skullandmortar everywhere and skullandmortar.com
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