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Where to buy brisket
Many people may wonder where you can actually buy a brisket at. For the most part, A lot of people buy their briskets from the meat market at grocery stores. Traditionally though, however, you would typically go to a separate and independent store known as a Meat Market Butcher that only sells a variety of meats that they cut for you on demand.
In today’s scenario or Society, those meat markets have basically been merged with grocery stores. In terms of buying a brisket though at these places, the practice is still very much the same.
You simply just go up to the meat counter and request that they give you a brisket.
Depending on what you tell them in terms of the grade of brisket that you want and the characteristics of the brisket, they will come back to you with whatever is closest to that description that they currently have.
At grocery stores, you can even get lucky enough to find briskets located in these giant meat bin containers on the meat market floor, which makes it so you don’t have to always go up to the meat counter and request it from The Butchers themselves.
It’s very efficient and saves everyone involved quite a bit of time. Most of the different types of brisket that you’ll find in these meat counters at the grocery stores such as Costco, Walmart, and even HEB here in Texas, are select all the way through Prime grade brisket. You can rest assured that the quality is excellent no matter which one you pick, just with different marbling according to each grade type.
Finding a butcher near me
Since one of the two main ways of getting a brisket in your hands is to find a butcher at a meat market, it’s pretty important to know how to actually find one near you.
All you have to do is go to Google in your phone and type in “meat market near me”.
It should show you the nearest establishments that sell all sorts of meats and not just brisket. If you want a grocery store instead, replace “Meat Market near me”with “grocery store near me”.
At HEB here in Central Texas, every grocery store has a superb Meat Market that has butchers that allow you to request meat on demand as well as large Meat Market containers that already have the briskets in there.
Final thoughts
If you ever want to buy a brisket that you can smoke or cook, just go to your nearest grocery store or meat market vendor.
At either of these facilities, all you have to do is locate the meat market area and go up to the butcher counter and request that they provide you with a brisket.
If you don’t want to have to talk to anyone and have to request a piece of me every time you go to the store, then go to a grocery store with large make containers that have the briskets already inside of them so you can just bend over and grab them and be on your way.
Buying brisket at either of these establishments is very straightforward and quite easy. Not to mention, the grades are already labeled for you so you can pick which one you want and whichever one is within your budget and means, you can quickly grab it and leave.
Typically, a lot of the briskets you’ll see in the markets or grocery stores can range anywhere from “.99 per pound of meat all the way up to about $3.99 per pound of meat. For the higher end of that price range, you can expect to be purchasing a prime grade brisket. For the lower end, typically you’ll see Choice grade or Select Grade briskets at that estimation.
Robert is a certified Pitmaster, with over a decade of experience in smoking the best meats you’ll ever feast upon. He also has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio. When he’s not researching technical topics, he’s most likely barbecuing in his backyard.