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Cindy Hamilton[_2_] Cindy Hamilton[_2_] is offline
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Default Braise or roast a corned beef?

On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:33:57 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On 1/27/2021 5:03 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 11:14:45 PM UTC-5, US Janet wrote:
> >> How do you prepare corned beef for yourself? On the top of the stove
> >> in a pot with water and vegetables? In the oven with a tightly closed
> >> pot?

> >
> > Both of those methods are braising. Roasting would be at temperatures
> > over 400 F with no cover. Not suitable for corned beef.
> >
> > I'd braise it in the oven. I find the all-round heat of the oven produces
> > a better braise than the bottom-up heat of the stovetop.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >

> I've had it prepared in the oven once. When I was a teenager my mother
> decided to roast the corned beef brisket one year (around St. Patricks
> Day). I do not recall the oven temp but I'm sure it wasn't 400F and
> with no cover.


Then it was baked, not roasted.

Cindy Hamilton