Food

i want to smoke a flat brisket. any protips on where to pick one up that's of decent size and quality? i've never seen one in my local butchers and i'd rather not scour every supermarket butchers for one that passes muster.

Is your butcher good? Just ask them to order you one. If not, I've heard good things about Flock and Herd in Peckham. ;)

ask them to order you one.

This. Any butcher should be able to do this.

googling turned up these folks in HH (sorry joe) who i've ridden past a hundred times and never gone in. mostly because it's closed. dem opening hours!

http://jonesthebutcher.me.uk/product/beef-brisket/

also interested in getting some hardwood (fnar) that's a bit more exciting than the bog standard firewood you get at homebase.

who wants brisket!?

St John St

https://www.turnerandgeorge.co.uk/packer-cut-brisket-flat.html

https://www.turnerandgeorge.co.uk/packer-cut-brisket.html

oof that's spenny for what's presumably a cheap cut. hipster meat tax?

i'm kinda funny about having food delivered. i'd really rather see it before i buy it.

eta: aah they have a shop. fair do's.

I got some olive wood logs in the fireplace shop in Lewisham

can't imagine olive wood imparts any particular flavour - or does it? to be honest i know fuck all about most of this bbq malarky - my people are more familiar with the running something over in a car and throwing it on an open fire approach.

The BBQ style USA cut of brisket is not how a UK butcher cuts out a brisket so there is a premium. I once saw some youtube thing about butchery standards that splained it.

Jones is an ace Butcher. It's underneath Joe's old flat.

yeah i know. in herne hill.

I was being serious about Flock and Herd.
Really nice team behind it.
They came down for a day on the farm to meet the sheep, which was pretty ace.

Have you tried fohi rather than billings?

What have I missed that you now have a sheep farm??

Family have had it for years.
Parent's generation decided to start using land instead of renting it out and the farmer who had rented for pretty much forever retired. (not sure of cause or effect)
https://www.instagram.com/otter_valley_farms/
We got 2 piglets this week...

Pigs and sheep?
This isn't going to end well. I've read a book about this.

But seriously, very good!

Freedown Food have USDA brisket

@chalfie you need a hardwood without the bark. Bark left on will give a creosote flavour.

U.K. woods would be things like cherry apple pear oak.

This year it has gotten a little more serious than previously. Suddenly 400 head.
Filling an order every month, and just about to start selling the fleeces (which until now only family members got as gifts).

And they're kept separate!

Cider too. Dangerous combo's all round.

Be interested in some local fleeces. Gissa nudge when they're for sells.

We'd been struggling to find a tanner who will do things up to the standards we'd like in the UK. Will update after we get next set in.
Also price and distribution needs working on.
Until now the family ones all go off to Sweden and come back lovely.

One thing I really dig about emigrating to the boonies is the availability of really great butchers.

There are 4 seriously top-notch local butchers within a 15 min walk of here. One of them sells sheepskins too. I'll ask where they get them done if you like?

Alright you could get great stuff in S. London but only after making a weekly pilgrimage and standing in line to pay top whack with all the other guardian readers.

I used to go to Ginger Pig in Greensmith's on on Lower Marsh (no longer GP but still a great butcher). William Rose in E. Dulwich is good and decently priced but the queue on a Saturday is a pain. The Butchery in Forest Hill is good but very expensive I thought. Never saw that place in HH open!

moving out of Ldn thread>>>>>

The place in HH was mainly trade, they opened at 5am so were closing up by lunchtime... OK quality but nothing special and not that cheap... His daughter lived up there for a while, smoking ciggies out the back with her equally dull boyf bitching about being passed over for a management position at Wetherspoons... I kid thee not... Almost made me quit smoking...

He owns the building so... It was empty for years til he saw £££££...

Alright you could get great stuff in S. London but only after making a weekly pilgrimage and standing in line to pay top whack with all the other guardian readers.
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William Rose in E. Dulwich

Brisket = mesquite smoke.

The full stop is not a typo.

Skate wing £11.80 enough for two portions, thank god we have a fishmonger near home in the Pimlico market on Saturdays.

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