Costco Prime Brisket Vs. Choice Brisket. Is there a HUGE difference??  

I think if you had weighed both after trimming and made a new per lb price calculation the preference would have been more clear.

The 5 hour rest in the cooler is a game changer.

Used to be that Costco prime was cheaper than choice when you were talking about brisket. Hard to believe but absolutely that was the case

Great tips! Thank you much for the all the detail in your observations and trimming

Love the cooler for 5 hours of carryover…an often overlooked step. Good call on that !! Most get to the stall at 165’ish° wrap to 203° and then become impatient with the rest in the cooler/cambro. Love your simple/practical approach. 👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻

Great video as always. I've yet to do a prime but have never been disappointed. They both look great! Cheers!

Great stuff. I definitely only sell primes (gives me a little cushion for error) but choice all day at home. Selection is KEY

Costco sometimes has both, but you always have to do the flop test on each piece you buy to see if your paying for too much fat! I usually pick the ones that flex and bend the most!

Wish you would have noted the difference is weight, what went into the pit and what came out, from watching it looked like the Choice was about 2/3 the size of the Prime which could justify the difference in price if there was a few extra pounds of cooked yummy brisket with the pricier choice. Great video, love your technique.

Its too bad brisket has turned into a rich mans meal....very sad. BBQ used to be a sweat equity meal for poor folk...now rich people have run the price up so high its unaffordable.

Would be interesting to know the weights of both after you trimmed them. It looks like you had to trim the choice more, so the price per pound of trimmed products may be closer than the purchase price.

Thank you for your video !

The trimming is what got me to stop buying so much brisket. You pay for 15 lb and end up trimming 5 of it off. Great video, though, and I will be hitting up my local Costco!

The person doing the cook and the technique make the biggest difference -IMO.... This was a great side by side comparison, I just subscribed to your channel, will be watching more !

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The point of bbq is to take the cheaper cut and make it delicious tender and mouthwatering.

Just picked up a full Costco Prime brisket for 3.99, which was the same price as Choice. It's a first for me and guess I'll be checking on more videos on how best to trim, cook and present. Thanks.

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I'm glad you elaborated on the fact that the choice grade brisket was a heavier marbled choice grade. There are some choice cuts that I've seen that I couldn't believe it was grade choice and not prime but people judge these classifications and people can make mistakes so I too have taken advantage of choice grade steaks that were marbled like prime grade so if you pay attention you can get lucky sometimes and find some prime grade at choice grade pricing!!! I too always stick with prime grade brisket but if I ever see a choice grade that is marbled like crazy I will pick it every time and save some money.

Hey man, great video!

Hey buddy, great video. I haven’t seen prime briskets in our Costco in quite a while. I do appreciate you doing both.

Great stuff.

Excellent tutorial! BTW, what is the chunk of wood doing in the smoker?

This is a tutorial for perfection. He understands brisket now.

i won't be able to tell the difference, but I definitely would make them disappear and wonder where it went. Costco never failed me with the meats, and definitely worth it to drive there just for the meats.

I love the idea of this video, but wish you had started slicing from the very end of the flats on each. The points should be fairly similar on a Prime and a choice, but the extreme ends of the flats is where I’d love to know if you noticed a difference. Nice job on the briskets, sir 👍🏻

I’ve cooked two briskets both were choice from Kroger. One turned out really good. The other not so good but I thought it looked weird in the store and still bought it learned a lesson on that one. It was only 43.00 dollars though so didn’t lose to much money on it.

Thank you

great video scientific experiment man excellent job 🔥

I've never been able to tell the difference. I only buy CostCo briskets and used both. My choice briskets always turn out great.

Great video! How about the flat? Any noticable difference?

They both looked GREAT!! All I can get at my Costco is Choice and they always turn out pretty good with some good marbling. But, the one thing I hate is when you think you found the best one and take it out that cryovac and it is beat up worse than your ex girlfriends cousin.

Great comparison! You let them rest only in the cooler for 4-5 hrs? Or did you use an oven for more time of resting then into the cooler?

Near portland Oregon all I'm seeing is Choice. I may as well go to cash n carry since it's cheaper than Costco for choice.

The Prices Per Pound are @ & after > @ 1:02 ~ !

If you're in Walmart always check their briskets. Granted they are from Excel but some times they have choice and even prime and the meat department guys just slap their normal brisket pound price on them. You can get some good deals. Also I've done selects on my RecTeq 680 and had them come out amazing. It's all how you cook them.

Great video 📹

Good to know! Why the block of wood in front of the meat, heat deflection?

Why waste the extra money for prime, you slow cook them for hours, it's gonna be tender doesn't matter the grade.

Would be curious to see the weight after trimming on each.

What is the weight difference in the cooked briskets?

Where can I find that cutting board! I have one similar but about 1/3rd the size. A single 15# brisket about takes up the whole thing. That one looks amazing....just hope it's not an arm and a leg like a lot of the customs I see that size.

I have used choice brisket for many years and I can’t tell the difference at all however I pay close attention to the flat when I pick one out some flats are super thin and dry out too much.

Great video

$7-8 bucks savings is nothing on$70 worth of meat and no tax on food in our state! Great vid!!! Be interesting to grind the burger separately and comment on their flavor...another vid, maybe?

Great topic great test however it would have been nice to see the weight of both before and after trimming and cooking. Keep on cookin!

Perhaps you should have weighed the trimmed briskets to see what the net cost per pound was? (Or after cooking.)

Nice comparison. I haven't really seen much difference between high choice and prime

I wish I could do choice. I've cooked about 10 choice briskets but they never come out better than the prime.

Cool video. Another variable is yield. On average I’ve noticed Prime has more hard fat and seam fat so the yield is lower

It's too bad Costco is getting rid of Prime brisket in a lot of markets. At least you can still get good results with the right choice brisket. Awesome video sir!

What brand are the prime? IBP, Cargill, JBS-Swift, that prime brisket looked terrible out of the bag.

Choice Briskets are underated . You can get the Same Taste in it. Just season and cook too Perfection.

What was total time of your cook?

Nice comparison

Brand is on the bag or box

Not much price difference there, but here in CA, Prime at Costco is $4.99/lb, but Choice is $3.19/lb at Smart and Final. On a 15# brisket, that's almost $30 and as you show, not much difference. Also, can you share the after trim and after cook weights? Wondering if there's a difference in the amount of meat that you end up eating. Thanks for sharing.

I wish you would have done a no-roll peice of meat choice and prime is a sweeter meat if you get a low-grade beef. In the packing house, they call it no roll, you'll get more beef flavor, and I'd be curious what it would be like , your choice looked like it wasn't cut correctly they kind of hacked it. Try a piece of meat with no grade. You my like, it better , no not get a #2 grade. To me, they taste like they didn't bleed out. I don't know, though.

You’ve discovered the secret. If you get a decently marbled Choice that is “floppy” grab it. Also either choice or prime has more real beef flavor than wagyu. Maybe not melt in your mouth fat but more of that real beef flavor this Texan is looking for

No use of tallow?

Interesting

By the time you got though trimming, the price easily doubles.

U always get choice just nit much difference here in Lubbock tx my opinion

Hour many hours on the smoker

How much waste, fat etc was on each one,

For these type of videos I would very much like you to weigh the trim. While it's not wasted, I would rather have more brisket if I'm spending time doing a 12 hour cook. Not sure why no one does that?

OBSERVATION...great vid but too much missed on directly comparing the 2 cuts

No tax on food

If you know how to cook a brisket it really doesn’t matter for the price choice all day

Costco more than likely use beef that has been fed GMO corn, injected growth harmonies. I would never buy from Costco or sam's club briskets! And I always smoke with fat side down!

Costco not carry prime....😮

5-7 lbs of fat trim

Labeling a brisket as prime is a gimmick. Thre is no such thing. All briskets are fatty and marbled, especially the point.

Poor cows. We were all vegetarian in the garden of Eden. Just saying.

It doesn’t matter the quality of the meat.BBQ is all about the cheapest cut of meat. You’er cheating. I’ll pass….

Before joe biden, wagu brisket was 10 a pound, so know chice grade is 10 dollars a pound wow we have Fallin as American.