I use a drawer and a crisper is best because it allows you to control the humidity for fruits and vegetables. If you’re just trying to do this in the family refrigerator, it’s best to do it in one that is either a) not opened 20 times a day and/or b) separated from the bulk of the ingredients. For example: a high humidity of 80% and an average temperature of 33° to 38° Fahrenheit are recommended at all times. Most professionals won’t advise folks to try dry aging beef at home because of the technicalities. Dry Aged Beef cut into a few Steaks, ready for trimming. Cooking time will vary upon steak thickness. I would recommend cooking your dry aged beef steaks in a straight pan fry with the aged fat on the stove and maybe the oven(like I show you in the video) or a full cook under the broiler in the oven. If you add them or even barbecue these steaks first you’re going to cover up the natural flavors that dry aging adds to your steak and you’ll never fully understand or appreciate the process if you do because that taste will be berried and lost to the fire and/or other ingredients. If you’ve been following my blog and channel, you know I love garlic, butter, herbs and grilling as much as the next guy but, dry aging adds flavor that doesn’t require any of those things. If you’ve never had aged beef steaks you should try it with Kosher Salt and Pepper only, at least for the first time. I highly recommend minimizing the added ingredients to your steaks when cooking. The fattier parts can be cooked and rendered down in water, to prevent burning, and the fat can be used to cook the steak in, if you’re pan frying. Only about an 8th of an inch is necessary but, if cooked properly, it’s safe to consume. Most people will trim off the outside layer, all around the steak, before cooking. Once the Beef has been aged properly, steaks can be cut into portions. Dry Aged Boneless Beef Ribeye aged 28 days. Beef cuts with large fat portions can protect the meat from drying out to much as the enzymes in the dry aged beef break down the tissue, leaving the meat quite tender. Water evaporates from the muscle and safe bacteria’s, with a variety of penicillin’s that form a harden surface around the beef as it ages for a period, on average, 21 to 28 days. The best meat for dry aging are sub-primal cuts on the bone like a strip loin, ribeye or sirloin. Now, Dry Aged Beef is simply a controlled atmosphere of humidity and temperature that ages the meat like a fine wine or cheese. Boneless Beef Ribeye incased in Dry Aging Wraps, ready to start aging. I just found that you get more for your buck with this particular brand because the others are almost twice as much for less bags. I am an Amazon affiliate but I’m not affiliated with this company, at all. That’s why I’m recommending these Dry Aged Bags. Healthy Bacteria’s and Molds containing Penicillin form on the outside of the meat just like aging cheese but you don’t want to add any off put flavors or spread mold anywhere else in your refrigerator. To do this at home, Dry Aged Wraps or Bags are used to protect the meat from other ingredients in your fridge and vise versa. Meat had to be protected from carnivores and other predator’s like insects but, now that we understand the science behind this incredible process, we can actually use refrigeration to our advantage and predict outcome almost every single time. This process used to be done out doors where one couldn’t predict the weather, temperatures or exact humidity that is involved to perfect aging and prevent spoilage. Steaks that would normally cost the average grocer $5 to $6 dollars per lb can cost upwards of $20+ per lb after dry aging. It’s now considered a luxury and can be quite expensive to purchase. It’s something that our ancestors had knowledge of but, because of refrigeration, the practice was no longer necessary to pass on to the following generations. One of the greatest kept secrets in gourmet cooking is how to properly age beef. One raw 6 lb Boneless Beef Ribeye ready for Dry Aging. Dry aging your beef is a really great way to do it. But, what if you could achieve flavor just as good with out any other ingredients than basic Kosher Salt and Ground Black Pepper. So, other than variations of added ingredients, flavor can come from the fire and whatever you choose to fuel the flames on a grill or whatever you decide to throw in a pan. The 3 most common cooking methods are grilled, pan fried, oven baked/broiled or a combination of the three. How it’s achieved, however, varies with preference and style. I’ve learned several different things about cooking great steaks, over the years, and the one constant, that everyone can agree on, is it’s got to have flavor. 1/3 Boneless Ribeye, Dry Aged with the end heal cut off into 1 steak.
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