How to Make the Best Corned Beef (or Pastrami) - Do It Yourself!

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How to make corned beef or pastrami at home. No recipe necessary! This method is so easy we say it's "stupid simple" corned beef. If you have a smoker, you get to enjoy pastrami instead. Get ready to make some of the corned beef or pastrami you will ever have!

Corned beef that's this easy to make doesn't have to be a once a year event. With a little pre-planning, you can regularly enjoy the best deli-style corned beef or pastrami made in your own home!

[chileBeast]

Giving this a try this week! Going for the Pastrami and the Corned beef, "happiness is just a lick away" ... that's what she said! 

[jontg]

Just made up some corned beef using this kit today, and it is totally delicious! Highly recommend!

[danielrowsey]

Great video.  I've been making my own corned beef (different procedure than yours, mostly same herbs/spices) for years.  Once you have made or tried home corned beef there's no going back to the stuff they sell at the store!

[jontg]

I used this kit last Easter, corned beef turned out awesome, and I am ordering up another kit today for a party we are throwing.

[jameslyon]

Great info. Do you think that the curing time can be reduced by injecting the brisket with the brine before submerging?

[acadiachef]

Great videos!! Did you seam the brisket and trim off excess fat? I noticed two pieces going into the stock pot but only one briskey coming out of the bag. Thank you. I have been learning a lot watching your videos.

[janabradshaw]

Can I do beef or pork tongue with the ingredients?

[docwhoth]

You should try using the navel cut of the cow. It's what Katz's uses to make their pastrami. The navel cut looks just like a brisket but has a LOT MORE fat in the meat..making it much more moister than a brisket. In fact i don't smoke briskets any more since i went to NY a few years back..i smoke nothing but the navel cut for BBQ and i order a whole pastrami from them! If i try to make it myself it would take too long and i would have make sure i plan ahead for the occasion i'm would be cooking for which would be a good 2 weeks at least.Their pastrami is also smoked for a long time which makes there's unique.

[irajacobson]

Is there any chemical difference between sea salt and table salt? Other than price, of course.

[RichK]

Hey Scott, or anyone... What other cuts of beef can be corned?

[tonyredhawk]

You should make sure that the plastic bucket is "food grade"! The plastic painter bucket at the big box store very likely will leach undesireable and possibly or probably toxic chemicals used in manufacturing the painter buckets. Aside from that, I would make two things from one brine. The fatty side goes into my corned beef like shown here, and the flat side gets rubbed and smoked pastrami style.

[InnocuousRemark]

Shouldn't the meat go into food-grade plastic?

[DustySmalls]

Wouldn't you want a food safe bucket?

[teresaames]

Correct thirty dollars is really not cost effective. McCormicks sells for ~🐮 4.99 the Pickeling seasoning ( it's end of season I got it for 2.00) I went to my local butcher and purchased curing salt for .99 and it's enough for thirty pounds so actual cost for a five pound brisket is what like .16 and then sams has the whole brisket for 2.98 a pound in kryo pack. So if you break it down more the pickeling seasoning will do four. So the only other thing is peppercorns if you want extra pepper or cracked pepper. So for less than 4.00 a pound. My daughter just bought one at 9.88 a pound. Crazy. At the price of 30.00 um ohch but hey if you're selling it go for it I guess. I'd buy it for 10.00 but no more.

[phebefriddle]

Nitrates or nitrites ie. pink salt or curing salt are not found in all natural or organic ingredients. I was hoping to have found something without preservatives.

[craigtrammell]

if you cook it in the brine it is gonna be hella salty

[wisconsinlife]

Organic salt?... $30 for about 1$ worth of spices n salts... seriously...

[olsonlavia]

really like yuk corn beef is made out of day and human skin

[billyburd]

Organic this, organic bucket. What a fraud

[tommylewis]

Why would you waste a perfectly good brisket to make pastrami or corned beef? Place that hunk of meat in a smoker for about 12 hours at 250 with a good brisket rub. And save the brining for poultry, not meat.