Help! Can I move my brisket from oven to crockpot while it's cooking?

[HRJ]

Bad planning here, on my part. Here's the situation:

About half an hour ago (3:30 p.m., EST), I put a brisket in the oven, at 325 degrees. It's supposed to cook for three hours. (I'm using a recipe for "Brisket with Caramelized Onions, Merlot and Dried Cherries," which calls for cooking the brisket, then having it sit in the fridge overnight, then making the sauce and serving it the next day. I had planned to make this our dinner on Wednesday.)

But -- I'm having friends over for dinner tonight, and had planned to make the Desk Set Oven-Fried Chicken. We'll be eating about 6 p.m.; the chicken takes 40 minutes to bake, at 400 degrees.

The problem -- why didn't I think of this before? :confused: :o -- is that now I've got the brisket in the oven, at 325.

Can I move the brisket from the oven to the crockpot, while it's in the middle of cooking? And if I do, should I cook it on low, or high, and for how long? Should I leave the brisket in the oven until 5 p.m., or so, and then make the transfer?

I'm concerned about food-safety issues; also, whether this would affect the ultimate tenderness of the brisket.

Oh, what I wouldn't give for double ovens right about now .... <wistful sigh>


Helene

[mrswaz]

I don't see why you couldn't move it. I would turn on the crockpot to high to get it going- then turn it down to low after the first 1/2 hour or so. Cooking it on low should avoid any toughness issues that you would have- and starting it on high would take care of the food safety issue.

Good luck!

[Aubergine]

since you just began cooking the brisket, i'd throw it right into the crockpot and treat it like a regular slow cooker brisket recipe, more or less the same as if you had spent 1/2 hour pre-searing a roast on the stove before the crockpot.

[HRJ]

Thank you!! :)

I moved the brisket into the crockpot -- the transfer was actually easier than I thought -- and put it on high -- will turn it down to low in a bit.

The annoying thing is, I've been home all day -- could easily have gotten this meat in the oven much earlier. I just wasn't thinking it through. Chalk it up to Mommy-brain. :rolleyes:

Thanks again,

Helene