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Spoke to my local butcher about getting a 'whole' brisket. He said a whole brisket as he gets it can be 20 to 30 kg in size! This includes bone and a load of fat. Does this soud right? He was a hall butcher,and english not his first language, so hopefully nothing was lost in translation.

Getting it deboned would save you a lot of hassle and weight, and considering a large whole packer brisket in the us would be around 18lbs, 20-30kg doesn't quite add up. Are you definitely sure it's just the brisket he was talking about, as 20kg is huge let alone 30kg! Especially considering US meat cuts tend to be a fair bit larger than over here.

I think explanation is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_of_beef

A whole brisket in the uk encompasses different parts of the animal when you look at these charts.

aris wrote:I think explanation is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_of_beef

A whole brisket in the uk encompasses different parts of the animal when you look at these charts.

It's almost a different part of the cow entirely, never realised there was such a difference!

JEC wrote:

aris wrote:I think explanation is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_of_beef

A whole brisket in the uk encompasses different parts of the animal when you look at these charts.

It's almost a different part of the cow entirely, never realised there was such a difference!

Quite, considering it's all the same animal I've no idea why each country has to make it so complicated. I also had no idea UK brisket is a different cut.

I just explained the flat and the point to my butcher and asked for him to get "that bit" as big as he could. Tends to work well enough