Two briskets

[Thomassen]

I’m thinking of smoking 2 briskets in my PBC next week. How would that affect cook time? Experiences??

[Alan Brice]

I have never done two. jfmorris fzxdoc ???
Big selection of everything at Costco, today. Did not see any prime.

[Thomassen]

My Costco hasn’t had prime brisket in months.

[bbqLuv]

Prime is a hit or miss at the Costco near me

[jfmorris]

As long as the briskets are not touching, I doubt it will affect cook time. You will be dripping twice the grease into the fire, but in my experience, even a sizeable brisket has less drippings than a Boston butt. If you’ve done two butts in your PBC successfully, and I know many have, two briskets shouldn’t put the fire out.

The biggest concern is if you decide to wrap and put on the grate at some point. With that 18 inch grate they would most certainly be laying on each other.if that happens, just reach in and flip them the other way while wrapped at some point, to even things out.

[Jerod Broussard]

Not much difference, the only time my cook time extended is if I was running 4. And that was due to the rotations. I would hang for about 5.5hrs and then go to the grate, alternating sides of the briskets to face down. 4 briskets creates a double layer so you have more rotations to go through.

[Santamarina]

As jfmorris said, as long as they aren’t touching - or significantly altering air flow between - it shouldn’t affect cook time.