Brisket PRices

[skinnerc06]

What is the average price yall find on brisket?? are the prices different between packers per pound, and fresh briskets per pound? Just wondering what i should look for when buying my first one soon. THanks

 

[bigal]

I've seen them as low as $1.19 to $1.99 for packers. Usually in the $1.48 area. If it is $3+ it is a trimmed brisket, I don't care for those.

Get a packer from 8-10#. I like these better than the 12#ers anymore, I used to only by 12# briskets.

Good luck

 

[skinnerc06]

WOW! definiitely need to look for packers. I wento to the local butcher, he said it would run me about $3.80 per pound. Im assuming it was trimmed and clean. Thanks for the heads up

 

[smokin for life]

Hey Charles don't get your hopes up on that price. I bought one 2 weeks ago for 3.49 a lb. and that was for the packer. I guess it just matters where you live. It took me a while to even find a store that knew what a brisket was. Don't even think about going to a supermarket up here and ask for a Boston Butt.

 

[kaptn35]

At smart and Final in Cali it goes for $1.49 a pound for a packer.

 

[smokebuzz]

1.68/# here at super wally for whole packers, local wholesaler is a little cheaper if you buy a 5 pack case

 

[hillbillysmoker]

Just paid $2.39 for a packer here in eastern WV.

 

[cascadedad]

$1.98 per lb here for packers at a local store. I'll check at Walmart next time I am there.

 

[deejaydebi]

Couldn't find any packer here today they were all flats and $3.99 a pound at WalMart no less! Yikes! The packers are normally around $2.79 here.

 

[starsfaninco]

Getting close to a major US grilling/smoking holiday...

 

[vulcan75001]

$3.99/Lb for flats here at Shaws...no butchers here...just "meat cutters" don't know the difference between a whole packer and a whole flat...
Deb...
Sam's club in Manchester has had the best selection for anything you wanted, I have seen in my travels..just sorry I didn't have a cooler with me the time we were there...

 

[gt2003]

I paid a little less than 1.40 per pound last Sunday. Like was just said, holiday coming up so the price will be higher too. It seems like not too long ago I could find them about anywhere in Oklahoma for .99 per pound but not anymore.

 

[richtee]

Warming up with a brisket Sat. eve. Thinking beef ribs for labor day, for the fat union cows...heh.. <just a funny, guys. I'm in MI and hurting too>

 

[deejaydebi]

We don't have a Shaws here they went under. WalMart, Stop and Shop and ShopRite. I think the closest SamClubs is either Harford of Warwic, RI for me. BJ's is closer but I haven't had much luck with their meats. The last butts I bought there were all fat iside almost no meat and stringy!

I have heard alot about Machester being a good place to shop. It's about an hour from here - I'll have to check it out some weekend.

 

[chris_harper]

here they are $1.37/lb at wally world; $1.48/lb at my local grocery stoer; and $1.58/lb at a meat packer. that is for what we call a packer. the meat packer told me he couldn't get packers. i was thinking, "wtf?". then he said he has them in the cryovac package like they come in (pretrimmed). i told him that is what i wanted. he said a true packer has a bone in it. dutch? any other butchers/ex-butchers out there know what he means? i found out friday where i can get a clod for $1.79/lb.

 

[hawgheaven]

I have yet to find a packer around these parts. The only place I can find any brisket at all is BJ's Wholesale Club, and they are flats @ $3.99 lb!

I stopped there yesterday and picked through what they had... found one with somewhat of a point on it, weighing in at almost 8 pounds. It came home with me...

 

[smoke freak]

I think I paid 2.19 at Dillons on sale. My wife stuck it in the freezer and said it was hers. She wants to do it in the oven. Ill only grumble a little cause I dont complain much when someone cooks for ME. Next time Ill buy two.

 

[hawgheaven]

There's a new concept... his and hers briskets!

 

[coz]

Damn I guess I need to take a road trip to Iowa.

 

[seaham358]

Just picked up my first brisket today.. BJ's was out of them.. The local butcher does not carry them. Price chopper is 3.99 and I got a small one at Stop n Shop for 3.84 untrimmed in the vac pac, it was only 4.5 lbs.. I need to shop for a larger one the next one I smoke..