{"id":156,"date":"2015-03-26T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-03-26T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T03:47:00","slug":"london-fucking-broil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/03\/26\/london-fucking-broil\/","title":{"rendered":"London Fucking Broil!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beef, in case you’ve missed it, is really fucking expensive now. I wanted to make steak and the rib-eye at the grocery store and the butcher shop was $10.99 a pound, making that like a $40 meal. So the second choice was this cut of beef I got when I asked the butcher for something cheap to stir fry with (here<\/a>; look for “some beef that isn’t ridiculously expensive for a stir fry”). He didn’t tell me what cut of beef it was he gave me, but it was perfect — and cheap(er), too. So this time I asked him: it was the shoulder, or top round: “You know, London Broil.” OK, I nodded.<\/p>\n

So now I’m looking it up: it’s the top round (which is what it looked like). It’s certainly not buttery and flaccid like a goddamn tenderloin but it’s also not too chewy and cheap tasting either. It is perfect for stir fry, by the way.<\/p>\n

But tonight I was thinking we should try to sous vide it, reasoning that the exactness of the cooking might benefit from a precise temperature. I googled what folks cook it at and saw, basically, between 131 and 140. The 140 was reported to be a little too cooked. I did 131. It passed the kiddo test, in that a real life kiddo ate it, but I think it could have gone up a few more degrees. Oh, and I marinated it overnight in a mixture of miso, sake, soy sauce, spicy pepper, garlic and sesame oil; basically a preparation I found in Tadashi Ono & Harris Salat’s The Japanese Grill: From Classic Yakitori to Steak, Seafood, and Vegetables<\/em> for either skirt steak or flank steak, I forget which. Miso, incidentally, is so versatile and great for enzyming protein and salty flavor. (Also, that book includes a traditional home cooking recipe for spinach with ground sesame seeds which I will get to some other time and which is so unassailably airtight that you’ll want it all the time.)<\/p>\n

And while we’re at it, ladies and gentlemen, let’s give it up for mushrooms sauteed in the schmaltzy chicken fat rising to the top of chicken soup. Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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