Sweetwater Spice Company's Brisket Bath

I had a great opportunity to try a Sweetwater Spice Company's Brisket Bath instead of using a traditional dry rub.  The Brisket Bath is a brine using ancho and chipotle chilies, apple juice, black pepper, brown sugar, onion, garlic, tamarind paste and a hint of cinnamon.  This mixture is ultra concentrated, requiring a 3:1 ratio of water to Brisket Bath per every 5 lbs of meat.  For this smoke, I used a 5lb brisket flat.  Here's a look at the process.

Brisket Bath!

The brisket bathed for five hours

Here it is after coming off the Yoder.

All sliced and ready for consumption!

The Brisket Bath made a very moist and flavorful brisket.  This was a great change of pace from the traditional dry rub technique that I usually use.  I would recommend giving this a try if you get the chance.  You can pick some at All Things BBQ or directly from Sweetwater Spice.

Review of the Home Tech Flavor Injector

I recently had the privilege of testing out the Home Tech Flavor Injector.  The device is certainly a unique design compared to the standard injector that most folks are accustomed to seeing.  Here's a few pics.

Cupcakes!  Gotta try that!

Three injection needles instead of one.  Each exit has screen to prevent clogging.

For my review I started off by injecting a chuck roast with some of my brisket mop.  The Flavor Injector did an admirable job injecting the chuck roast.  There was a bit of a learning curve with knowing when to release the press pressure in the reservoir so not to spray your injection everywhere.  After smoking it up on the Yoder, I was left with a very moist and flavorful helping of pulled beef.  I was very pleased with the results.

Getting ready to inject.

Adding injection is a lot neater than a traditional injector

Injecting away!

A fine batch of smoked, pulled chuck roast!

The the next round of testing I had to give the injected cupcakes a try.  I baked up some traditional yellow cupcakes and tried injecting them with hot fudge.  Here's some pictures of that process.

The fudge was a bit of challenge as it was still very thick, even when heated up.  This made the injecting process a bit cumbersome.  In my opinion the injection needs to be thinned down to allow it to flow better through the injector.  Overall, I think the injector faired very well with watery-consistency injections, but struggled with thicker injections, so those should be thinned out before attempting.