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From Source to Table – Dry Aged Rib Eyes

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    From Source to Table – Dry Aged Rib Eyes

    I think we can all pretty much agree that nothing beats a good steak. Although we all have our favorites for various reasons, it’s hard to argue that a good ribeye is right up there as the king of steaks. Although I love them I also source other cuts and for good reason, price. It’s seems that ribeyes have become the go to steak for most households and that can be evidenced at the grocery store or your local butcher. Just four years ago when I first joined AR, prime ribeyes were averaging right around $10 per pound with sales that sometimes dropped them even further. Well those days have quickly come and gone with the same sources now selling them between $18-22 a pound. Said differently, premium steak has doubled in price over that amount of time!

    Well what’s a poor boy to do? I have turned to New York strips, picanha, chuck and even sirloin to ease the pain but there’s still that bite, that smooth textured mouth feel, that hint of fatty unctuousness of a ribeye that’s hard to beat. So I’ve turned once again to our friends at Costco and have gone back to sourcing one of their large, prime grade, boneless ribeye subprimals to get some monetary relief and satisfy my ribeye cravings.

    Got a hold of a 15# beauty last month over at my local Costco for about $165, tax included or approximately $11/pound. I immediately bagged it in an Umai bag for dry aging. For those of you who do this no explanation needed for dry aging at home using this product. For those who have not I’m not going into a long explanation of how this works, there are plenty of posts here that go into it in depth. Essentially the bags allow moisture to escape while blocking anything from outside the bag to enter back in. You keep it below 38* in a refrigerator for a prescribed period of time and you get the equivalent of dry aged meat.


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    Past experimenting has told me that anything over 28 days is too long. The meat loses too much moisture and is too dense for my pallet. But some folks like that longer age to achieve a nuttier, cheese like finish. To be honest, my sweet spot is 21 days, so that’s what I did with this one. So last weekend, after the aforementioned aging period, I was ready to debag and carve me off some steaks!

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    Yield was as expected. I lost about (2) pounds of moisture and about (3) pounds of trimmed fat and pellicle. I measured out and hand carved (10) – 1 ½â€ beauties. So doing the quick math, my overall cost per yield ended up being right at (10) steaks weighing on average (16) ounces or $16.50 per steak (or per pound, however you choose to look at it). That versus well north of $20 for a fresh unaged equivalent at my local HEB. Bottom line, if you can source it and have the ability to dry age, this is a no brainer way to go.

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    So what to do to celebrate my win? I took several and salt brined them for grilling the following evening. And not to be outdone, I went whole hog and did Steak Oscar with each. For the uninitiated it’s grilled steak topped with lump crab meat topped with a béarnaise sauce. Steaks were roasted hot and fast at about 500*F until they reached about 122*F IT then reverse seared over my SNS and allowed to rest.

    Did the crab as a salad with celery, sage, lots of Tony C. and used a little mayo and Dijon as a binder. Heaped a big pile on the perfectly cooked, medium rare steaks sitting on some asparagus and smothered the whole thing is the béarnaise sauce as the explanation point. Even the wife had to say, "Wow". Bottom line the crabmeat topping (maybe $4), the steak ($16.50) and a couple of asparagus spears and we were eating like royalty. Restaurant cost (I looked it up at a decent steakhouse), $70-75.

    So from Costco’s meat counter, to a 21-day dry aging in my fridge, to a perfectly cooked and dressed condition, I give you Steak Oscar at my table.


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    Troutman (don't call me Oscar) is outta here !!!!



    #2
    DAYUM.

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      #3
      Hey Oscar, I really like the last two pics, I really, really do, yessir!

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        #4
        Beauty.

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        #5
        Noice!

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          #6
          The Rib Eyes have a first name its O S C A R
          The Rib Eyes have a chef that's O S C A R
          If you ask me why I like it this what I say
          The Rib Eyes were cooked the good old O S C A R way!

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            #7
            Wow!

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              #8
              You do know how to live Stevie!

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                #9
                That sir looks Excellent!!!!!

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                  #10
                  Outstanding! Love seeing another dry age project!

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