How to Smoke Corned Beef

Give your St. Patrick’s Day feast a wood-fired upgrade with smoked corned beef brisket on your pellet grill. Low and slow smoke takes this cut to the next level—amping up the flavor, breaking down the connective tissue for melt-in-your-mouth tenderness, and building a perfectly seasoned bark.

Learn how to make corned beef the Traeger way, plus the history behind this classic dish. Once you’ve had it smoked, you’ll never go back.

Cuts of Beef

Ribeye, New York strip, and sirloin are familiar terms. But those are only a few of the 51 total cuts of beef. Explore our Cuts of Beef guide and learn all of the different cuts and how you can identify, prepare, and cook them.