Beef Broth reduction
On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 10:56:29 AM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 06:37:24 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 8:45:28 AM UTC-5, 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.
> >
> >Granted. But nobody's going to fund a proper double-blind test to see if
> >meat is sweeter nearer the bone.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
> I never think of meat being sweet
It's an expression. The word "sweet" is used because it rhymes.
It doesn't mean "sweet" in the sense of sugary. If anything, it's the
old meaning of "sweet": pleasing in general; delightful.
Cindy Hamilton
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