Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
steamykitchen.com
Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
1–10 of 144 posts
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#2Stupid question: does this work with chicken? I tend to prefer the white meat.
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#3I'm having steak this weekend, will have to try this out. Educational and tasty (hopefully)!
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#4Stupid question: does this work with chicken? I tend to prefer the white meat.
The article says one of her influences was a chef that did this with chicken.
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#5Stupid question: does this work with chicken? I tend to prefer the white meat.
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/07/garden/getting-the-most-ou...
This works really well with fish too. My favorite catalonian restaurant cooks its fish on a slab of salt, with excellent results.
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#6I tried this once -- it was very salty, which I don't mind, but it was nothing special as far as tenderness.
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#7I've tried this a couple of times. It's nothing special. Your better off finding locally sourced fresh meat - it's usually as cheap and you will be able to find one you like.
(also, incidentally, I'd say a good steak is as much about taste as texture. This sorta sacrifices one for the other)
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#8I'm pretty excited about the prospect of eating a delicious steak for only a few bucks! I also enjoy that this person has the same method of cooking as I do, which is to create a recipe and then iterate on it several times within the span of a few weeks before it eventually tastes amazing.
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#9OK. Sous Vide looks more interesting to me that overly salting a piece of meat. tptacek care to weigh in? I am about 23 hours away from buying a rice cooker + pid controller to make this happen. I do the pid part at work so it is interesting to me from a work point of view too.
Edit: If you have not seen sous vide cooking: http://amath.colorado.edu/~baldwind/sous-vide.html
It looks amazing to me.
Re: Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
#10Finally a Hacker News article I can share with my Mom!!