re: Brisket finished too early, what are my options?

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Any fabric is insulating

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So are you claiming a towel will insulate the brisket and keep it warm for a decent length of time? Long enough for the brisket temperature to be warmer than the environmental temperature when you are ready to eat?

It’s really not that deep dude

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but the towel does add insulation

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So the 10 minutes of insulation the towel provides helps the meat stay hotter when you pull it out the ice chest 4 hours later than it would if you didn’t have those 10 minutes?

The heat transfer in the ice chest is going to be the same temperature whether a towel is there or not. All the towel does is delay it and the point is that it doesn’t delay it for any significant time for the towel to make sense in terms of insulating the brisket.

I’m quite fun. Sorry I soured your joy by trying to discuss food on a food board. I find the discussion quite interesting.

I could be wrong but I think wrapping in a towel(s) reduced the process of moister evaperating, and keeping less air circulation from happening.

all that would allow the brisket to slighty continue to cook, which is why some pull at IT 195 with probe tender.

Doesn't Chud recommend keeping cooked briskets at 160F in an oven until serving time?

Are you really so fricking stupid that you don't think wrapping a towel around a brisket and placing it in an ice chest will hold heat better than just placing it in an ice chest? Because if you are that stupid, and didn't just post those 12 paragraphs of idiocy for attention, you should be barred from this board. What if I told you that 3 towels would hold even more heat. And 5 towels even more? You're the worst.

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Are you really so fricking stupid that you don't think wrapping a towel around a brisket and placing it in an ice chest will hold heat better than just placing it in an ice chest?

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At some point, the air in the INSULATED ice chest will even out from the heat of the brisket. Towels aren’t notoriously known for insulation. At some point, the heat transfer will be completed.

My thought is a towel is only going to delay the heat transfer for a short amount of time. If you’re keeping the brisket in the ice chest for 5 hours, the heat transfer will be completed. If you’re keeping the brisket in for 1 hour, then maybe the towel will keep the brisket hotter than the air inside the ice chest.

But I’m so fricking stupid I don’t understand the food engineering classes I took in college. Just trying to have a discussion, bro. If you think a towel is going to keep your brisket 30 degrees hotter for 5 hours, go for it.

When you are sleeping at night, the environment (the air in your room) is constantly changing. Your a/c is running keeping it cool, the outside temperature of the night is affecting the air as well.

You do not sleep IN AN INSULATED BOX. You are not running an a/c inside an ice chest. You are not running a heater inside an ice chest.


Try to follow the science here...

An ice chest is an insulated box with a controlled environment. You are NOT introducing new air, or hot air, or cold air. The air in there is the air in there.

If you fill an insulated ice chest up with air that is 100 degrees, and close the lid, the air inside the ice chest is 100 degrees. Assume the air outside is less than 100 degrees.

Now if you open the lid 5 hours later, the air inside is now less than 100 degrees. Why? Because the heat transfer from the temperature inside the ice chest to the temperature of the environment outside the ice chest. But since the ice chest is insulated, the heat transfer took a long time and the environment inside the ice chest stayed warmer for a good length of time.

If you fill an ice chest up with ice, eventually, it will melt, right? Why? Because the heat transfer from the air outside and the cold air inside.

So if you put a hot brisket inside the ice chest, the brisket is going to heat the environment of the ice chest. Heat transfer will occur and heat from the brisket will warm the ice chest air. At some point, the environmental temperature inside the ice chest will even out. Meaning, the air inside the ice chest will NOT get any hotter. (This is when heat transfer from the environmental air outside of the ice chest will start to factor)

My entire point is that a towel is only going to slow this heat transfer down for a short length of time. An ice chest is insulated and designed for insulation. A towel is not. So if your goal is to keep a brisket inside an ice chest hot for longer than say 1 hour, let the ice chest's insulation work, not a freakin towel. Now if you want to serve the brisket in 30 minutes or maybe 1 hour, then yes, the towel can help keep it warmer. But if you're keeping the brisket in the ice chest for multiple hours, the temperature will not decrease by a significant amount because of a towel.


For you towel lovers