Burnt Ends - Love 'em or hate 'em?
 

So... what say you, Planeteers? What is your take on the smoky, chewy little bits of barbecued manna from heaven?

I've actually never had one. I'm a BBQ n00b.

Pork is my favorite by far but I like burnt ends every once in a while

Oh, hell. Could a mod please add a "WTF is a burnt end?" option?

Is that when you knowingly have sex w/ a girl that has gonorrhea w/out any protection?

You can tell by my thread header how I feel. I've gone to great lengths to make massive amounts of burnt ends. Absolutely love them. If burnt ends were the only BBQ I could have for the rest of my life, I'd be good with it.

LMAO

Thanks to the mod that added the WTF option! Who did it, and I'll give you some rep.

I like them, just not when they are burnt.

What?

The most delicious thing ever to enter my mouth.

I love them. There is one BBQ restaurant here in Bloomington, IN, and it sucks. I eat burnt ends almost every day when I'm back in KC for holidays.

Overrated IMO. Ill eat them though.

And do you spend the next four days on the shitter?

Love em.

One of my favorites is a nice garden salad, shredded parmesean, burnt ends and poppy seed or creamy italian dressing.

OK WTF IS A BURNT END PLEASE

Smokehouse BBQ Burnt ends!

Burnt ends are the pieces of the point (the fatty part of a whole brisket) that have become a little tough, and generally over-smoked. They are VERY powerfully flavored, and typically you either love them or hate them.

Smokers will trim the burnt ends off, chop them up, and cover them with sauce. Put the pile of smoky goodness on a bun and eat with delight.

Oftentimes, cooks will not offer them up for sale... kind of the cook's delight/treat.

occasionally. give me pulled pork, ribs

As long as they're from LCs here in KC, oh hell yes ...

MM
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Eric Hicks ... ?

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LMAO

Smoked pork ribs - FTW

But Burnt Ends have their place. Quite tasty, but not the best.

I see that Basileus777 is a ****ing idiot.

Love me some burnt ends. That's my order evertime I go to Gates.

The best burnt ends are crispy, but not chewy. You know how in good crispy bacon, the fat is rendered, so that it's a crispy shell of cell walls with the interior liquid released [bacon grease] and it can be ground to dust between your thumb and finger. Burnt ends undergo the same process, except while it's releasing the liquid fat, the cell walls soak up smoke so it's crispy and intensely smoky.

I'd disagree with you. With the physics of cooking, the length of time that they smoke, they get dried, and should be almost jerky like. Some will be crispy, but most aren't. Yes, the fat renders out, but they don't cook hot enough to become crispy as a whole, at least not in my experience.

I've never had them like crispy bacon. And FWIW, About.com agrees (not to imply that About.com knows much about BBQ).

I am of your opinion. Crispy seems way wrong.

What?

He hasn't even posted in this thread.

Is this because he likes the New Jersey Nets?

Edit: Oh I See now

Public poll. He voted Do Not Want.

Those look like Snead's "brownies." Mmmmmmm.

I could eat em every day. That is if I lived in KC still instead of LA. BTW anyone know a great BBQ place in North LA? There are a couple that bill themselves as KC BBQ. Trust me... they are not.

I did qualify with 'best,' and yes to the extent that the end is composed of meat and not fat you get the jerky/chewy component. But again, that's not the part I really like. That's why they use the fattiest part of the brisket.
And really, the meat doesn't soak up any more smoke, due to it's density, than regular smoked meat, so instead of smokier ends you just get chewier meat. The good stuff is where the fat renders out and it's a smoky shell. Another analogy, besides bacon, is the structural changes that happen to pork rinds, though no end would survive getting THAT crispy.

Sneads was really good at that shit back in the day.

http://buckymcoinkumsbbq.com/wordpre...ng-burnt-ends/
It's a flash setting, rather than raw jpegs, so I can't directly post, but compare pre-rendered ends [7] to rendered ends [8]. The crispy part is the blackened end.

Sorry, must have misunderstood! :thumb:

I like a primarily chewy consistency, with a little crispiness in there.

That's why I likes Sneads so much, perhaps crispy is too strong a term, but they used such fatty brisket for their ends that that good lattice work of bits of meat held together by rendered fat that was initially crispy but melted in you mouth like the perfect 'crispy bacon,' that 'grind to dust' quality of rendered fat. And like I said, the fat has a much higher potential for smoke absorbtion than meat, no matter how jerkified.

If, as it is your thread, we're limited to whether we prefer chewy smoke meat or falling off the bone tender smoked meat, I'll take tender. ;)

It is about the only Q I don't like. Well, that I have tried. I used to frequent Rosedales, and tried them several times, thinking it must have just been a bad bunch.

WTF is a burnt end?

I know from reading the thread, but not from eating them.

There was no good BBQ in LA 2 years ago when I lived there but I googled this and at least they have burnt ends and get ok reviews:

Kansas City BBQ Company
10863 Magnolia Blvd. (Satsuma Ave.) Studio City, CA 91601

Phone:
818-754-0030

Fax:
818-754-8910

Thanks for the research but I've tried it and it sucks. Pretty sure those reviews are from Los Angelinos that think BBQ is just meat with sauce on it.

Figures. At Least Portland has some decent bbq, but I sure miss good KC stuff. Thats why I do my own now.

There's your problem right there.

I sure won't argue that point, but it was very convenient to the office. I have had MUCH better BBQ down in Wichita.

R&S is by far the best I have ever tasted, anywhere. Last I knew, they were only open 4 hours a day, two days a week. People lined up when it was time.

you won't have much life left if you keep on eating them :)

Usually burnt ends are very fatty and greasy, and are the worst part of the rib. I'd much rather have a short end at Gates than their burnt ends.

It's kind of like a bbq sloppy joe.

You can do much better by ordering brisket, or chicken or something else, IMHO.

Some people swear this is their favorite though, so...whatever smokes your meat!

Burnt ends are part of the brisket.

Is R&S in Wichita?

Yes it is. I would tell you where, but I have been gone long enough now, I have forgotten exactly. 9th, Murdock, 13th street area not to far from Grove IIRC. Saggysack or RNR should chime in here and tell us I hope.

How can you not love burnt ends?

Problem is, you can't always get the real thing. Manufactured ends aren't the real thing. Places like Jack Stack sell manufactured ends, not the real, cut from the brisket ends.

If it ain't real ends, it ain't worth messing with.

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LMAO. DCS -- Remember in the other bbq thread where I told you that the rankings on his site weren't worth a darn? I think you now realize that I was right.

Burnt ends coming from ribs :doh!:Wow.

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

Burnt Ends = KC BBQ; and they be delicious! :drool:

Speak from experience?:evil:

Tried some from JackStack a few months ago.......not impressed with the "burnt" ends, nothing burnt about them, not even semi crispy. The ribs and cheesy corn however were very good. Anyone tried the Kobe burnt ends?
Closest decent BBQ place near me is Famous Daves............YUK

Burnt ends going into the beans! If only I could cook the beans like Jack Stack!

I will say this once: FAMOUS DAVE'S IS NOT KC BARBECUE!

Famous Dave's is Minnesota barbecue.

And yes. YUK.

That is all.

Thats what I thought it was.

You are excused, being from the CA. 'Aint no thing.

They are awfully good there! I used to teach near there, then moved away 11 years ago. I go back there every time I pass through.

I can actually see why one might think that. Ribs are quintessential barbecue, and calling them burnt ends might lead one to believe it.

They are, however, the burnt ends of the brisket.

Very well......carry on.

Does Gates deliver?

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It's a pet peeve. ****ing Famous Dave's opened up down in the Power & Light district because none of the actual KC barbecue places could afford it. Consequently, I'm dismayed that the thousands of people that will come to the Sprint Center and see FD's, and say, "Oh, there's some KC barbecue... it's supposed to be great."

So they'll try it, and come out disappointed, and think that's what KC barbecue is.

And not only is KC barbecue much better than that, but FD's isn't even KC barbecue. It's a God Damn travesty.

The P&L Famous Dave's closed! Victory! It's being replaced by another chain, Old Chicago, but that was expected given the astronomical price to put a business there.

They have a Famous Daves here fairly close, we went once. It was enough.

Now that shit there looks like some Goddamn bunt ends.......got to get some of that

I don't recognize those ends. Usually I can tell where the pic was taken from by the combination of the food, presentation, wrapping paper, tableside sauces, etc. I can't place this one though. Is it from out of KC? (Yeah, I know I could probably just see where the pic is linked from, but that's cheating).

Exactly. :thumb:

To paraphrase J.T. of "The Bone Shack"..."Best in KC!"

[Demonpenz]That looks like tootie[/DP]

I have not been a fan of them for a long long time.. Probably because everytime I ordered them or someone made them they were... well burnt.. I like savory medium rare meats..

The ones in the picture above actually look good though..

Love 'em, as long as they're not TOO burnt. Dried out burnt ends = teh suck.

You wouldn't want brisket medium rare. It would be akin to shoe leather.

Well, the good news is; making burnt ends from ribs would be a much less time( and education )-intensive proposition! :evil: DOHT!

It looks like a shot from LC's website.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

Yayyyy...WHAT?!?!?!?:eek:

"Chicago"?!?!?!:cuss:

Kiss my mother****in' ass, P&L!!!
If that don't just salt my balls...:shake:

I know its not L.C.'s. The ends are similar, but I've eaten at L.C.'s enough to know that those didn't come from L.C.'s. Besides, the ends aren't heavily sauced like L.C.'s serves them. Also, the butcher paper is a giveaway that the pic isn't from L.C.'s; L.C.'s serves food on styrofoam plates. Also, L.C.'s has fountain drinks; that big glass bottle of whatever-it-is can't be purchased at L.C.'s.

Its times like these, reading the above paragraph, where I realize that I perhaps eat too much barbecue.

this times 2 :hail:

You don' t have a Gaz option, I'm not voting :harumph: