Injection darkness

[Chitlins Rule]

While competing this weekend, and injecting my brisket for the first time, I noticed dark spots in the meat, could someone enlighten me as to what causes this, is my injection needle to large or is it in the injection itself, which was a combination of something I bought and beef broth.

[3 star redneck]

Depends on what you injected.....and what you mixed it with......that's what causes it.....

[Chitlins Rule]

Ritter's beef injection and beef broth

[BigDave]

We used the same injection this weekend and had no marks. I suspect your needle is too large. Get a medical IV flush syringe with a 14 gauge fill needle. very sharp and cuts into the meat rather than pushing muscle aside and makin big holes that creat dark spots. Pepper will pass thru the 14 gauge. Get the needles at a vet supply. Syringes can be bought at tractor supply but the largest needle they have is 16 gauge and that will not let pepper thru.

[Kevin_Texas]

Make sure you keep the needle and syringe very clean before and after use. Bacteria can react with the meat fibers causing the streaking.

[Woody Wood]

We used the same injection this weekend and had no marks. I suspect your needle is too large. Get a medical IV flush syringe with a 14 gauge fill needle. very sharp and cuts into the meat rather than pushing muscle aside and makin big holes that creat dark spots. Pepper will pass thru the 14 gauge. Get the needles at a vet supply. Syringes can be bought at tractor supply but the largest needle they have is 16 gauge and that will not let pepper thru.

[Jerry516planes]

Make sure you keep the needle and syringe very clean before and after use. Bacteria can react with the meat fibers causing the streaking.

This what I found to be true. When in doubt Soap and Water.

[jtilk]

We used the same injection this weekend and had no marks. I suspect your needle is too large. Get a medical IV flush syringe with a 14 gauge fill needle. very sharp and cuts into the meat rather than pushing muscle aside and makin big holes that creat dark spots. Pepper will pass thru the 14 gauge. Get the needles at a vet supply. Syringes can be bought at tractor supply but the largest needle they have is 16 gauge and that will not let pepper thru.

Because it's a smaller hole, do you think this would help with keeping more of your injection in the meat rather than having it ooze out? Or is it inevitable?

[Fullofbull]

Try injecting with Beef Consume' it does not the parts that beef broth has in it, and besides its a much better flavor

[BigDave]

We used the same injection this weekend and had no marks. I suspect your needle is too large. Get a medical IV flush syringe with a 14 gauge fill needle. very sharp and cuts into the meat rather than pushing muscle aside and makin big holes that creat dark spots. Pepper will pass thru the 14 gauge. Get the needles at a vet supply. Syringes can be bought at tractor supply but the largest needle they have is 16 gauge and that will not let pepper thru.

Because it's a smaller hole, do you think this would help with keeping more of your injection in the meat rather than having it ooze out? Or is it inevitable?

Josh, If you get it saturated there will be some leakage. But there is not as much. More injection stays in the meat. You can press down on the injection site and that will stop a lot of the leakage.