Out here in RealTexas we often look for excuses to celebrate something. Over in the Metro Miles area, they celebrate the Miles Cotton Festival, hosted by the Miles Preservation Society. Miles is a blip in the road that a lot of folks in that part of RealTexas are proud to call home. Out here we think that small and rural is better than big and urban. The people at the Miles Cotton Festival offered us every kind of barbecue, ribs, beer, margaritas, hot dogs, Frito Pie, Gorditos, grilled jalapeños, and other food.
The cooker featured in the post was one of many. I intend to do a full post and video on barbecue cookers along with showing off the one I use and my own special recipe and technique for cooking a brisket from scratch. It’s not something I did right the first time, but now I do a pretty decent job. There were literally hundreds of cookers, smokers, and grills at the Cotton Festival and those folks were some serious outdoor RealTexas chefs who take their barbecue serious.
Lots of RealTexas folks have some pretty fancy cooking rigs, some have wheels and can be trailered from place to place and some are stationary like mine and stay out in the yard. Yes, the one and only wood acceptable for cooking a brisket is mesquite. Good thing we have so much of it. Life in RealTexas is goooood!
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i love a good BBQ but never been to anything like your talking about, would love to go to something like that in the future
I am anxiously awaiting your brisket recipe.