Corned beef internal temp?

[miguelb]

I picked up a corned beef from Aldi. Package says 160 internal temp. Should I follow on that was take the IT to 201?

 

[Slimpicker]

Have you seen the other posts and threads in here on Corned Beef....
First off; what are you trying to do??? just smoke corned beef?? Or make pastrami, or what??

Both methods you see on the package involve water and steam heat... not GRILL heat...

Corned beef is a cured meat, you can actually cook it to anything you want... 165 -200

 

[Slimpicker]

If all you are going to do is SMOKE as is then you still need to SOAK the salt out of it before you smoke it...
as for me, the best ever was "brisket" cooking it to 200

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[Timmy]

What @Slimpicker posted.

 

[DVSCYCLES]

Soak over night in water. Dry the next day and apply your favorite rub and smoke to 160'
Wrap in foil until 200 the take it off and rest for a couple hours in a cooler.
Perfect the last time I did it.

 

[miguelb]

Thanks for the tip everyone. I end up smoking it to 180. It was good but I should had waited to cook it until after getting advise. It was interesting but next time I should be better prepared.