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Post by kxg on Jul 5, 2019 18:16:00 GMT -5
I just finished a 24oz sirloin strip. 2 hours in the vacuum marinade, 90 minutes sous vide at 133 degrees and finished in a smoking cast iron skillet with butter, salt, and pepper 2 minutes per side. Melted in my mouth. Kroger had them in the used meat section for $7.80 each, marked down from $20. Sous vide! As far as I'm concerned, that is the only way to go. We ate our first a bit over a year ago and I had a sous vide cooker within a week and off we went. Great what it does with a cheap cut of meat and amazing with a good cut. We like our steaks med rare, my mother likes hers more toward well done. I sous vide in the same pot and sear hers on a hot grill a bit longer. Works like a charm.
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Post by elric on Jul 5, 2019 19:27:11 GMT -5
Haven't feasted on the dead flesh of my fellow creatures for over 25 years now [Long story that] but am gobsmacked when I see the price of meat these days. Rural Australia has been under drought for several years now & stock numbers are down, affecting prices. Growing up on lamb it was my meat of choice, so I was shocked to see my favourite cut, prime cutlets, was $48kg at the butchers recently. Have no clue as to the price of meat in the U.S. but t-bone steak at $4lb sounds like a bargain. Enjoy. Thank you, Elric Buzzkill, for the encouraging thoughts. LOL! I should think lamb and mutton would be popular Down Under. I recall Australia used to export mutton in a tin. Kidding aside, I understand your sentiments about fellow critters. I do not like the way they are processed and prefer my own under more human conditions. Yeah sorry, can't help throwing in that little reminder. Long story short, I went through a spiritual awakening that changed me in more ways than one. Although meat is delicious, I love animals. My basic attitude is that I can live as a vegie [no, not vegan; they're mostly sickly looking fanatics] in the here & now & be healthy. Should I ever be stuck in the Aussie outback or the South Pole for e.g., then meat would be back on my menu. When I worked on the historic Toorale Station on the Darling River, I slaughtered the sheep for our dinner table. Mainly because I was disgusted at their way of killing the animal. No need for cruelty. We had an old wood-fired cast-iron country oven that would cook the mutton so slowly over several hours. [The only way to bake/roast mutton] Delicious. Lamb has always been big here in Oz & still is. The drought has stock numbers way down. Farmers simply can't afford to hand feed their animals.
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Post by elric on Jul 5, 2019 19:29:49 GMT -5
You should just go for Snake Meat ... all ribs. Snake meat is not bad actually. Tastes like ..... chicken.
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Post by elric on Jul 5, 2019 19:33:31 GMT -5
Grilled steak was okay but I much preferred buying cheaper cuts to make curries & stews.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 5, 2019 19:36:04 GMT -5
Thank you, Elric Buzzkill, for the encouraging thoughts. LOL! I should think lamb and mutton would be popular Down Under. I recall Australia used to export mutton in a tin. Kidding aside, I understand your sentiments about fellow critters. I do not like the way they are processed and prefer my own under more human conditions. Yeah sorry, can't help throwing in that little reminder. Long story short, I went through a spiritual awakening that changed me in more ways than one. Although meat is delicious, I love animals. My basic attitude is that I can live as a vegie [no, not vegan; they're mostly sickly looking fanatics] in the here & now & be healthy. Should I ever be stuck in the Aussie outback or the South Pole for e.g., then meat would be back on my menu. When I worked on the historic Toorale Station on the Darling River, I slaughtered the sheep for our dinner table. Mainly because I was disgusted at their way of killing the animal. No need for cruelty. We had an old wood-fired cast-iron country oven that would cook the mutton so slowly over several hours. [The only way to bake/roast mutton] Delicious. Lamb has always been big here in Oz & still is. The drought has stock numbers way down. Farmers simply can't afford to hand feed their animals. I was a vegetarian for years. I understand the ethical and moral issues. My own animals I dropped with a .44 magnum carbine when they were not looking at me, just quietly feeding. Pick them up with a backhoe and for gutting and bleeding. They went quick without knowing much pain, I hope.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2019 19:37:04 GMT -5
You should just go for Snake Meat ... all ribs. Snake meat is not bad actually. Tastes like ..... chicken.
Your correct.....snake meat is quite delicious if prepared properly. Consistency of chicken. I like when you cut of their head and cut them up whole and they are still jumping in the frying pan.
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Post by elric on Jul 5, 2019 20:26:04 GMT -5
Yeah sorry, can't help throwing in that little reminder. Long story short, I went through a spiritual awakening that changed me in more ways than one. Although meat is delicious, I love animals. My basic attitude is that I can live as a vegie [no, not vegan; they're mostly sickly looking fanatics] in the here & now & be healthy. Should I ever be stuck in the Aussie outback or the South Pole for e.g., then meat would be back on my menu. When I worked on the historic Toorale Station on the Darling River, I slaughtered the sheep for our dinner table. Mainly because I was disgusted at their way of killing the animal. No need for cruelty. We had an old wood-fired cast-iron country oven that would cook the mutton so slowly over several hours. [The only way to bake/roast mutton] Delicious. Lamb has always been big here in Oz & still is. The drought has stock numbers way down. Farmers simply can't afford to hand feed their animals. I was a vegetarian for years. I understand the ethical and moral issues. My own animals I dropped with a .44 magnum carbine when they were not looking at me, just quietly feeding. Pick them up with a backhoe and for gutting and bleeding. They went quick without knowing much pain, I hope. There's a real country v city in the Aussie bush. It's like the country boys have some sort of inferiority complex. They tried to kill me once taking me through what looked impossible riding a Yamaha 500 thumper (I was used to road bikes - Ducatis) Lucky for me that I'm a big guy or I'd have been in a punch-on at least once a day. Their method of procuring our meat was to run into a mob of sheep, catch a wether drag it off to a tree & slaughter it. The poor animal was terrified. Absolutely disgusted, I asked the manager to give me a weeks notice before we needed meat. I'd catch a wether & put it in a small pen used for raising feral piglets & tend to it twice a day. By the time it was ready for slaughter, I had the animals trust. Straddling it's back, I'd cut it from ear to ear in one clean swipe.
The country boys would sit on the verandah over the week, watching 'city boy' fussing over the 'dumb sheep', giggling like schoolgirls. They thought it hilarious.
After hanging the meat for a couple of days we were getting stuck into a leg of mutton. The table was quiet as everyone ate. When suddenly the manager, a big bruiser of a guy, looked up & said "I don't give a f#%k what you lot say, he' pointing at me 'is now in charge of the sheep' [for our table] 'This is the tenderest meat I've had in years!'
That was my intention. A frightened or injured animal will give tough meat. A relaxed animal will give tender meat. It's that simple.
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Post by Darin on Jul 5, 2019 20:46:26 GMT -5
Snake meat is not bad actually. Tastes like ..... chicken.
Your correct.....snake meat is quite delicious if prepared properly. Consistency of chicken. I like when you cut of their head and cut them up whole and they are still jumping in the frying pan.
I've eaten Rattlesnake and it was pretty good … reminded me a bit of Gator Tail.
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Post by elric on Jul 5, 2019 20:54:06 GMT -5
Snake meat is not bad actually. Tastes like ..... chicken.
Your correct.....snake meat is quite delicious if prepared properly. Consistency of chicken. I like when you cut of their head and cut them up whole and they are still jumping in the frying pan. Hope you don't mind me telling another story Charlie ....... but this reminds me of the Aboriginal legend that states; Snake does not die until the next sunset. At Toorale I was the unofficial snake killer. There were a LOT of snakes, all of them deadly. The once magnificent Toorale homestead where we ate & slept, had been condemned as uninhabitable. The residents all had their beds sitting on 44 gallon drums after one bloke awoke to find a black snake in his bed 'cuddling' for warmth. [My mattress was on the floor, lol] A regular occurrence was to be awoken by the day shift crew screaming 'Elric, snake'. I'd grab my 6' foot stick, race outside & watch the snake while trying to ignore the chorus of screams urging me to 'Kill it! Kill it!'. If snake was passing through I'd leave it be. If it lived under the homestead [where they bred] I'd kill it. [It's a fact that 9 out of 10 snake bites, are inflicted on those who are trying to catch or kill the snake] One night we were driving over a clay-pan. An 8' King Brown was soaking up heat from the clay when we ran over it. [This is actually quite dangerous. Snakes often get caught under the vehicle & will make their way into the cabin] The poor creature had a broken back & was really pissed [where the expression 'As mad as a cut snake' originates] Dispatching it quickly I threw the snake into the back of the ute. In the morning I skinned it & threw the carcass into the 44 gallon rubbish bin, then went to bed. The next afternoon, sitting on the verandah enjoying a cuppa tea & a ciggie, a litter of 10 week old pig dogs were growling at the bin. The decapitated skinned snake was still moving. Watching it closely, the snake stopped moving right at sunset. From that day on I kept an eye on dispatched snakes. Wouldn't matter if they'd been killed an hour before sunset or an hour after, a snake would not stop moving until the next sunset.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 5, 2019 21:22:59 GMT -5
Great stories, Elric. Keep them coming.
I do not run over snakes, either. Mostly for my own "ethical" reasons. I harm them not and I fully expect that courtesy to be returned.
Your country has the worst snakes,ever. The worst spiders. The word marine reptile and apex predator fish. Then there is that awful weather. Hot as the gates to Hell. Dry as a Parson's throat. In fact, the entire country has very little to offer except for some remarkable people who never let their friends down when they are need. As they did with the English in 1917 and 1939 and the USA in 1950 and 1967.
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Post by elric on Jul 5, 2019 22:15:34 GMT -5
Great stories, Elric. Keep them coming.
I do not run over snakes, either. Mostly for my own "ethical" reasons. I harm them not and I fully expect that courtesy to be returned.
Your country has the worst snakes,ever. The worst spiders. The word marine reptile and apex predator fish. Then there is that awful weather. Hot as the gates to Hell. Dry as a Parson's throat. In fact, the entire country has very little to offer except for some remarkable people who never let their friends down when they are need. As they did with the English in 1917 and 1939 and the USA in 1950 and 1967.
Depends on where one lives. The temps away from the coast can be brutal in Summer. I'm 55klm's inland from Sydney where I grew up. The weather is beautiful for 9 months of the year. Some Summers here can be okay when cloud keeps temps down but some years are bad. One Christmas day here it was 49*C (120*F) Especially brutal since I don't have air-con. Although the outback is extremely hot in Summer, it's a very dry heat. The only place in Oz where I would not live is above the Tropic of Capricorn during wet season. Far North Queensland for example. The humidity is so draining. Everything rots & grows mould. Plus they have salt-water crocs that inhabit the beaches AND the deadly Box-jelly fish & the little Irukandji jelly-fish that's said to have the most painful sting in nature. Plus snakes & spiders. While in Cairns as a 16yo, I had a Bird-Spider the size of a dinner plate in my tent. A guy who came to my aid cautiously peeked inside. Once he identified it he said "Oh that's just a Bird-Spider, he wont hurt you." then let the spider crawl onto his palm & released it in a tree. Nuh-uh ... shoulda seen the fangs on the thing. Not sure what you mean by "apex predator fish"? No pirahna's here. Snakes are not a big deal. Most will hide from humans [Look out for Tiger snakes in Spring though] Last year when in hospital for a week, there was a sign on a door to the courtyard that warned of 'Deadly snakes'. It was Autumn when snakes are active looking for their last meal before hibernating. There were a few 'resident' black snakes. One of the worlds deadliest. One English patient, who'd lived in Oz for decades, was terrified, lol. As long as the snake is not startled, it'll keep clear I told him. He didn't look convinced. Growing up for a few years in Ryde, we were a block away from the Parramatta River. This was Funnel-Web spider territory. We had a Funnel-Web hole on just about every foundation pier. Mother often disturbed them while gardening. I'm not easily frightened. Snakes don't bother me [Well, as long as they don't cuddle up to me in bed, lol] but Funnel-Webs are scary creatures. Deadly with huge fangs, we did not have an anti-venom back then. None-the-less, snake & spider bites are extremely rare. As I said, 9 out of 10 snake bites occur while trying to catch or kill. Leave them be & they'll keep clear.
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