On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 05:45:20 -0800, Taxed and Spent
> wrote:

>On 12/4/2020 3:36 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 6:17:19 AM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>> On Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:54:18 -0800, Leo >
>>> wrote:
>>>> I got up at 5:15 AM yesterday and had nothing to do. I buy bone-in sirloin
>>>> steaks at my supermarket and cut out the bones and fat before cooking and
>>>> chuck the bones, any excess meat and fat into the freezer.
>>>> I took out the scraps, defrosted them in the microwave and roasted them at
>>>> 400F for forty minutes. Then I threw them in an eight quart stockpot and got
>>>> this minus the onion.
>>>> <https://postimg.cc/0bVYcXQX>
>>>>
>>>> Then I simmered and reduced the concoction for seven hours and ended up with
>>>> this.
>>>> <https://postimg.cc/1n1wfLCX>
>>>>
>>>> I? planning on making beef stew using one of the containers and freezing
>>>> the other. I wonder what it will taste like? I hope that it? better than
>>>> "Better Than Bouillon", but I like BtB for stew, so we?l see. The stew
>>>> will definitely need salt, because the reduction has little.
>>>>
>>>> leo
>>> Looks good but it puzzles me why you cut the bones out from the meat?
>>> I find meat cooked on the bone is always sweeter.
>>
>> I'm sure you do, but your opinion is not borne out by science:
>>
>> <https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/03/ask-the-food-lab-do-bones-add-flavor-to-meat-beef.html>
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
>That is hardly science.

That is hardly logical... why go through that whole rigamarole, if
making stew leave the meat on the bones, brown and simmer on low until
the meat falls off the bones, remove the bones and skim off the fat.
At some point while simmering add seasonings, herbs, and towards the
end add veggies so they don't over cook.

I cook stews all the time, all kinds, I never go through all that
rediculousness. And an 8 quart pot is really too small to make a real
stew... a 12 quart pot offers room to add stuff without liquid
slopping over... I never fill a pot to the tippy top... thats a sure
sign of slovenly cooking... and I'm not about to spend all those hours
to end up with a mini stew, gotta plan on left overs to freeze for
another meal.

Those pictures don't show any stew... they actually show nice plastic
containers, and something I'd feed to the critters, but more likely to
the trash can.