Just got my first smoker

[MileHighGrowler]

(03-01-2021, 07:55 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Not exactly like brined for cooking/smoking, but brined for preserving like the way they turn pork into ham.

I've never made corned beef, but it is brisket cured in a brine.  Pickled would be another way to look at it, I guess.  

If you smoke that corned beef, it will become pastrami.  Which is just more steps than I can to go through to make a sandwich, no matter how good it tastes.  Curing and then smoking is a lot of time if you're making it from a fresh brisket.  Probably a 6 day project from start to finish.  I'm impatient enough for a 18-hour smoke