Beef decisions for tomorrow -

[BFlynn]

Today is my brother's birthday, and he has a SnS travel kettle we haven't broken in.

In my freezer, I have prepped and frozen- a prime chuckie thats right at 2 lbs and a wet aged well marbled choice flat, about 5 lbs. Flat is also ready to go


I planned to do pulled beef with the chuckie and add in some sausages. There will be 4 of us for sure but maybe as many as 7 people..

I was thinking 2 lbs of beef wasnt enough.

What y'all think?
Stick with pulled chuckie and add in the sausages?

Do the flat instead? Can you use a flat for pulled beef? Or burnt ends? Or are those bad ideas?

For sides, I'm doing a big pot of black eyed peas and anyone else that shows up is supposed to bring something.

[Oak Smoke]

If that flat is wet aged and well marbled do it and slice it to serve as is or a sandwich. That would go great with black eyed peas IMHO.

[Jerod Broussard]

Pulled chuckie and sausage and chop the flat.

[BFlynn]

I don't think I have the real estate for the flat and the chuckie.
It's like Sophie's choice - but harder.

[jfmorris]

2 pounds of chuck will shrink to about 1.4 pounds post cook. It’s not enough for 7 for sure, and maybe not 4. I would do the flat.

[HawkerXP]

3 ish pound chuckie gets demolished here by the 3 of us

[johnec00]

Came here to post a suggestion then realized that the cook was past already. So what did you end up doing, and how did it turn out?

[BFlynn]

Ended up doing pulled beef with the chuckie. Big hit! Not enough on its own though.
Also had some jalapeno cheddar sausage. Which was a good choice bc everyone, surprisingly, showed up

Glad I DIDNT do the flat though. I thawed it yesterday to smoke this weekend, and forgot that I cured it for pastrami before I froze it.

[Jerod Broussard]

Dang, that would have been a hit too! Pulled chuck that is fatty is unbeatable.