Showing posts with label aging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aging. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Aging Beef: The Monumentous Occasion

We aged beef.

We succeeded in our experiment and it looked absolutely lovely.

The steak was super tender.

The results were great.

The steak was... not as tasty as I had hoped! This was a nice experiment, it was interesting to watch the steak slowly form an outer "crust" as it aged and it was super cool "squeezing" it from time to time and being able to feel a difference in tenderness, however, the end result was not nearly as good as I imagined. We did succeed but I think I'd prefer to tenderize my steaks with a bit of Coke before I make myself remember everyday to baby the steak. C'est la vie!





Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Aging Beef... The Experiment

It has been 8 days since we began our beef aging adventure and while it was exciting at first, it quickly lost its luster when we would forget the beef until late at night as we were sluggishly heading to bed. Nonetheless, we are here, at day 8 and I am finally beginning to feel the excitement again.

Our beef aging experiment may or may not work. Our refrigerator may be too warm and may be fostering a whole colony of bad for us bacteria or it may be too cold rendering all of our hard work useless. The one thing it is is a learning experience and that is what we were after. The chance to try. So often people are quick to put an idea down, quick to say it won't work, some because they have tried it and failed, others because they cannot think outside the box and imagine a normal everyday person being able to achieve something whether it be aging beef in their home, creating an award winning cupcake recipe or running a marathon.

Dry aging beef is normally a 10 to 21 day process. I am unsure how far we will take this but I am crossing my fingers it will be delicious.







Day 4 of Beef Aging Process
You can see the meat is beginning to darken.
























Day 8 of the Beef Aging Process









Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Aging Beef Day 2

So we remembered to take the steak out of the fridge and baby it for the 2nd time. Go us! Nothing has changed about the steak although I think we are supposed to use actual towels and not so much paper towels as the paper towel stuck to the beef and was a bit difficult to remove. My boyfriend is genius though! I had no idea how he created a rack in the bottom of the bowl to keep the steak elevated..until now!