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Oh, and the added beef tallow step?  Completely unnecessary when you don't trim off all the fat cap.  A proper packer brisket is the perfect combination of fat, muscle, and connective tissue. No need to add, or remove, anything.  All you need is season, smoke, and time.

Adding the tallow was the one thing I was sure that I had never read in all your descriptions of how to properly smoke a brisket.

I remember a good cutter was like being top gun in the wild west

Managers would fight over them to steel one away from another store

It was not unusual for them to make more then the managers with overtime

Maybe I should get a second job as a cutter.  I can't tell you how many briskets I've taken apart in my lifetime.  Probably not a thousand, but definitely in the many, many hundreds.

Maybe I should get a second job as a cutter.  I can't tell you how many briskets I've taken apart in my lifetime.  Probably not a thousand, but definitely in the many, many hundreds.

I watched some movie on the plane about this tailor and his neice.  He called himself a "cutter", not a tailor.  He was a Brit.  Turned out later to be a really bad dude with tatoos.  Not a great movie but OK for a plane ride.

The movie is called "The Outfit", which may be a double entendre ... a term my wife didn't know.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

One of my favorite movies of all time.  I was WAY into cycling in my teens and 20s.

Another good one:

damn, hope he recovers

Here is the full statement from Mississippi State:

“Mississippi State University Head Football Coach Mike Leach had a personal health issue at his home earlier today (Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022). That issue led to a decision to transfer Coach Leach to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson by ambulance. That is the extent of information that MSU has available regarding Coach Leach’s condition, and the university will make no other comment at this time other than to say that the thoughts and prayers of the university are with Mike and Sharon and their family.

“MSU President Mark E. Keenum and Interim MSU Athletics Director Bracky Brett have conferred, and the decision has been made to place MSU Defensive Coordinator Zach Arnett in charge of the MSU football team until Coach Leach returns. Practice for the ReliaQuest Bowl game and recruiting operations will continue.”