Experiment: sous vide chuck to slice for lunchmeat

[DaveD]

Hey, another lunchmeat adventure, this time with a beef eye round roast. Dry brined overnight, dusted with garlic powder and coarse black pepper and vac sealed for sous vide with a dollop of smoked wagyu tallow and a bay leaf. Sous vide at 130/54 for 24 hours, then pat dry and reseal in a new bag and drop in an ice bath to crash cool. Then gave it a dusting of Uncle Chris's Extra Fancy and heated it back up on the SnS kettle with a bit of hickory on the coals, 2-zone with indirect side around 325/165.








Forgot to take a plate photo before digging in, sorry for the disarray...


The meat came out extremely tender with a great flavor, but it was just a touch dry. It'll be OK for sammich meat, and lesson learned, I'll stick to chuck and london broil for these SVQ lunchmeat cooks, when it comes to beef... this is just such a lean cut, there's nowhere to hide.

[DaveD]

Welcome to another thrilling chapter of Adventures in Lunchmeat!

This time around, it's a Wild Fork Angus Choice chuckie, on the small side at just over 2lb/~1kg. Dry brined overnight, dusted with coarse black pepper and garlic powder, and vac sealed up with a dollop of smoked wagyu tallow and a bay leaf. Sous vide at 132/56 for 32 hours, then patted dry and dusted with some Extra Fancy.





Seared it over raging B&B coals - I don't like to waste them on a fast sear but that's all I had on hand. Sliced and plated with some zucchini and Them Taters.








Completely delicious, very tender, only a little chewy, largely owing to the thick-ish slices. But juicy as hell, and the sear over the coals took it to the next level.

Next day after refrigerating the unused portion, sliced it up for lunchmeat, and had a simple roast beef & cheddar sandwich, which was great - sorry, no pics, I know, didn't happen

It sliced nicely and I got just about exactly 1lb/450g, good for two lunches-for-two. Definitely prefer chuck to the eye round I did a while back, and I need to now do a london broil again for comparison, it was pretty good the first time but it's been a while now...