Brisket Box 67

12/9/2011

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Scott A. CBJ

12/9/2011 03:57:44 am

8 or 9
Wish It had fat and no sauce/glaze but I'm not docking a team just because it's not the way I like it

Dick - CBJ

12/9/2011 03:58:43 am

Score 9. Great looking box. I can't imagine how you might improve on this box. Color is great, nice box layout, plenty of good slices and it looks very appetizing.

Noel-CBJ

12/9/2011 04:05:40 am

Score 7

Back row of meat is not even

Uneven spacing of meat

Sparse parsley is not even in height

Back rows of meat look goopy at top

Booger looking thing top mid left front piece

Hard to tell from pic but front face of meat looks dry

buzz--cbj--cook

12/9/2011 04:06:12 am

nine(9) for me--while some may quibble about slice size/placement it looks really nice to me!!

bbqdave916 link

12/9/2011 04:08:33 am

i do believe you have an excellent turn in there, great smoke ring,looks moist still. would have went for a little more bark on the beef personally,but man it does look great

phil white

12/9/2011 04:13:35 am

( brisket looks outstanding

Larry (CBJ)

12/9/2011 04:40:42 am

9 - Makes me hungry. Great smoke ring.

M@ CBJ

12/9/2011 05:08:30 am

9

At first I thought there was sauce pooling at the edges, but I think it's just the lighting/picture.

I know we're not supposed to use smoke ring - but that's a lovely smoke ring!

mkevenson

12/9/2011 05:13:03 am

CBJ

8

Very appetizing. Just shy of a 9. Suggest making the slices equadistant one to the next, and don't cover the 1st slice so much with garnish.

Dean Cary

12/9/2011 05:18:54 am

I am presuming that the red hue is from the camera....
otherwise its a really good box. A little attention to keeping the slices uniform in thickness but thats really nitpicking. I would like to be able to turn in a box that pretty...9

Scott - CBJ

12/9/2011 08:26:22 am

Not too bad. I'll give it a 7. The slices are a bit too thick leading me to believe it was overcooked. I'm not too concerned at how red the meat looks because I think that might be a wrong setting on the camera producing that. The garnish and layout is nice.

Abel CBJ link

12/9/2011 10:56:26 am

CBJ

I give the box a 7

Overall presentation is pretty good, but the bottom 4 slices are pretty thick and not even close in size to the rest of the slices.

I would suggest not even putting them in if they are not as good or better than the rest. Keep in mind as judges we judge the ENTIRE box so if you have 6 slices that would normally get a 8 and 4 slices that would get a 6 your OVERALL box will be a 7.

Tim CBJ/comp cook link

12/9/2011 12:39:31 pm

8
looks like good meat. Nice smoke ring as well as garnish. The overabundance of juices/sauce/au jus has a negative impact IMHO. I like to see the juices coming out of the meat, not slathered over it.

If you were able to expose a littel more of the sliced side instead of the top, I think it would help your scores.

Kevin - CBJ

12/9/2011 12:43:53 pm

7-8. Slices look a little too thick suggesting overcooked. Glaze is too thick for me. Probably a 7 but maybe an 8 if I looked at it in person.

ricardo(cbj)

12/9/2011 02:45:30 pm

7,sliced to thick,

Tom - CBJ w/ KCBS, MBN, NCPC; & Comp cook

12/9/2011 11:54:29 pm

8

Looks pretty good, but missing that "excellent" factor for me. Slices look much thicker than "pencil width" which is the standard for KCBS brisket slices.
Bark looks rather light and it appears that not much care was taken to the placement of the slices.
Still, I'd like a bite please!

elkski

12/10/2011 12:12:50 am

I think the pic needs work. However if I dont think about that fake pink tint??
I give this a 9. I am an easy judge on appearance for sure. I do think the garnish is blocking the first slice to much as I can see all the smoke ring but I want to see a meat side lower down to see if the whole slice looks so good.

Pete

12/10/2011 12:28:17 am

Meat: 9
Whole Box: 8
I would give it an (high) 8 overall.

The box could use a much tighter parsley frame. Frame it out tighter and the whole box is a 9.

But, again, from a just meat perspective, it would be a 9. The only comment with the meat is it looks lop-sided... but I realize it's the cut more than anything YOU did.

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