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We purchased a brisket at Harris Teeter for a little about $6.00 a pound a few weeks ago, cooked it with some spices etc for a long time, and it turned out fall apart great.
We stopped at Twins Market and they had brisket for around $7.00
Yesterday I was at Walmart and they had 17-18 pound briskets for just under $4.00.

What is the normal per pound price?
What should we look for when purchasing Brisket?

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Price is going to very a lot depending on grade, demand, time of year..

About grades- https://www.thespruceeats.com/usda-beef-grades-1328658

Demand- https://www.beefmagazine.com/beef/beef-demand-holding-steady

time of year- https://talkbusiness.net/2019/11/beef-demand-is-up-ahead-of-the-holidays/

So it comes down to- how nice of meat is it, is everyone wanting it, do you need it right now? Kind of you can have 2 of the 3 but not all, lol. Best is to buy good meat when it's on sale and keep till you need it... up to a point.

Edit: It's kind like asking how much is a bottle of bourbon - they all might be called bourbon but that does not make them the same.
 
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Walmart is usually cheapest. A local “meat market” is gonna be more expensive as they pay $4 a pound for example for it at restaurant supply, then they mark it up. One reason I’ll never buy a brisket from a local market. I called one here once and they wanted $9lb for one. The next week I got one at restaurant depot for less than $4/lb
 
nhusa said:
We purchased a brisket at Harris Teeter for a little about $6.00 a pound a few weeks ago, cooked it with some spices etc for a long time, and it turned out fall apart great.
We stopped at Twins Market and they had brisket for around $7.00
Yesterday I was at Walmart and they had 17-18 pound briskets for just under $4.00.

What is the normal per pound price?
What should we look for when purchasing Brisket?

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I usually only see brisket flats at Teeter. I grabbed one last week to try my first pastrami. If I’m cooking brisket for brisket’s sake I’ll buy a whole brisket from Costco. They are usually priced decently and have some good size hunks of meat.
 
The brisket at Harris Teeter was about 18 inches long, 8 inches wide And 2 inches thick.
I might be a little off in the dimensions but it was packaged the same as the one at Walmart.
 
I picked up a brisket from a local grass feed beef last week and smoked it Saturday for sandwiches. Mighty good!
 
I’ve tried different grades over the years and I can’t tell a difference when I’m cooking them for 12 hours.

The only time I did see a difference was when I picked up a wagyu brisket and smoked it.

The real difference for it tho wasn’t the taste of the meat but the flavor and taste of the fat. It was like smoked butter.
 
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I’ve tried different grades over the years and I can’t tell a difference when I’m cooking them for 12 hours.
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And that is what low and slow was made for- take a cheaper cut of meat and make it tender and tasty. It takes a keen set of taste buds to tell the difference. And I don't got them, lol,
But if I can get Prime for just a bit more than Choice, I will take all the help I can get
 
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Chdamn said:
I’ve tried different grades over the years and I can’t tell a difference when I’m cooking them for 12 hours.

The only time I did see a difference was when I picked up a wagyu brisket and smoked it.

The real difference for it tho wasn’t the taste of the meat but the flavor and taste of the fat. It was like smoked butter.
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Agreed. Buy the mediocre cuts trim them decently and cook well. They are fine. A ribeye or filet I might spend extra, but with a brisket I can overcome cheap meat with some good cooking.
 
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Prime is the way. As mentioned above, lower grades can turn out great if done correctly but I find the prime has more wiggle room on execution and a more consistent end result. I normally buy by the case at sams. Less than 4$ per pound back in September.

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noway2 said:
I was thinking that stuff was more like $50 / lb.
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Other cuts are that much or higher.

I haven’t looked in awhile but based on what prime is going for normally right now wagyu brisket is probably $10 a pound now.
 
My wife has an "in" at a local store, she gets them for about $2/pound. She won't pay sticker prices, and given how many people we have to feed, we'd go broke if we did pay sticker price for protein.
 
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