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![]() The goal: Serve the best steak on Christmas Day my family or I have ever had.
The plan: Dry age a USDA Prime whole ribeye for 43 days, trim it, then sear it to medium-rare perfection. Some of you might recall that back at Christmas time in 2015 I dry aged a USDA Choice whole ribeye for four weeks. That steak was the best I'd ever had and I've had a lot, from Peter Luger to Chops, Bones, and Linger Longer. All serve excellent steaks, but I cannot lie. Even being USDA Choice (albeit, due to the marbling, it was on the higher end of Choice), it still beat any steak I've had out - including multiple trips to Peter Luger. The beefiness was something I had never tasted before and the tenderness was right there with Prime. Ever since, though, I wondered, what if we pushed the drying even further out and went with the pinnacle of beef that is USDA Prime? So, this past Sunday I went to Costco at Cumberland and, thankfully, my favorite butcher buddy was working. After surveying the cryovaced whole Prime ribeyes in search of the largest spinalis dorsi (aka the ribeye cap, aka the beefiest and most tender part of the cow), I asked him if he would check in the back for a whole ribeye with the biggest spinalis dorsi they had. He went in the back for a few minutes and then emerged with what I was after: a cryovaced whole USDA Prime ribeye with the biggest spinalis dorsi I had ever seen. On one end, it was almost half of the ribeye, no joke. I'll take it! $17.99 pounds at $10.89 per pound for a total of $195.91 ![]() As soon as I got home, I took it out of the cooler, took it out of the cryovac, cut it in two, placed it on a cooling rack in a sheet pan, and parked it in the bottom of my refrigerator. I cut it in two because I'll be serving three ribeyes out of the smaller cut to my pastor and his wife around the four week mark. The other, larger ribeye will end up yielding about five ribeyes after being trimmed at the six week mark. ![]() Day 1: Will update this thread with a picture every Sunday leading up to Christmas Day. ![]()
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![]() I did it once and man that's good stuff. I was told to wrap the beef in cheesecloth and change it every two weeks but that must not be necessary.
I usually eat my meat right off the bone raw after a kill so it's hard for me to wait six weeks. |
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![]() Yes! I remember. Keep us posted I'll be following this.
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![]() Looking forward to the pics. I think we need smell-a-vision for the final product.
My wife and kids will NOT eat the spinalis dorsi (glad to know the name as I always called it the good part) ![]() Lately, I have been using the iron skillet with: butter, garlic, rosemary, and cognac for a sauce. |
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![]() Ha - that's straight love right there.
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![]() Quote:
Peter Luger's dry aging room: ![]() ![]()
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![]() Oh Yeah! Following this thread fosho!!!!
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![]() That already looks righteous. I can feel the flavors concentrating.
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