On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:33:29 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>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

At a Kosher Deli corned beef is prepared as I described, simmered to
remove the cure. At a Kosher Deli corned beef and pastrami were/are
kept hot for service on a steam table. For St. Paddy's Day the Micks
Braise Corned beef as I described and keep it warm on a steam table or
in a low oven... the Micks don't serve pastrami. Pastrami is smoked
corned beef... the Micks considered burning wood just for smoke was a
frivorlous waste of fuel... they didn't realize that the smoke was
also an excellent preservative.

The Micks didn't know from corned beef until they arrived in America
where they settled in poor Jewish neighborhoods (crowded slums), they
copied their poor Jewish neighbors and ate corned beef... most every
cut of beef can be corned, not just brisket.

Corned beef was poor people's food, it was preserved with salt, just
like the Jews preserved herring, with salt. Not all that long ago lox
was poor people's food too, cured salmon, salt is cheap. Just like
the poor Italians preserved Cod fish by salting and drying. In the
large American cities the Jews, Micks, and Italians lived close
together, their life styles became very similar. Over the centurys
people devised many ways to preserve food without refrigeration,
usually dehydrated and cured/salted. Most of the world's people
preserved fruit by fermentation (wine). It's not by accident that
peoples the world over imitated the Jewish dietary laws, peoples
wanted to survive so they imitated the best survivalists.