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Purchased a new smoker last weekend. Have purchased a nice brisket. Have a recipe for a dry rub from a family member.   Now to give this thing a try this weekend.

Smoked the brisket for almost a full 8 hours.  Trying to figure out how much charcoal to use to get the temp. right.  It took much more then I expected.  I also had some pecan wood laying around the backyard from a old Pecan tree in the center of the backyard.  Split this up using the hatchet my girlfriend brought with her when she moved in.  This really added a wonderful smoky flavor to the meat.  Next time I will get a full on brisket instead of what I pickup from HEB.

Found in a press release from Media-Newswire.

“We’ve all heard the stories: Someone’s great-uncle has smoked three packs of cigarettes since he was 14, and now, at the age of 88, he’s living a fine, healthy life,” said Arthur Moss, M.D., Director of the Heart Research Follow-up Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. “Contrast that with the 52-year old neighbor, who also was a heavy smoker, and just last week, dropped dead from a heart attack. Why is it that some smokers seem unaffected by their habit and even outlive the healthiest individuals, while many other smokers suffer significant cardiac events at a relatively young age? We think we now know why.”

According to Moss, the answer lies is a common deviation of the gene CETP ( cholesteryl ester transfer protein ), a protein found in all people that controls cholesterol metabolism. Smokers with a common form of this gene are likely to suffer a heart attack 12 years earlier than a non-smoker, while smokers who do not carry this variant appear to be “protected” and have the same risk of heart attack as non-smokers.

Read the full press release…