This is an eye round
considered by most the worst piece of
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steak there is. And most people don't
even eat as a steak. It is a muscle that
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works hard and for that reason it is not
that tender. But my goal today is to test
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it two different ways to find out if we
can make this as good as a steak. And the
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first one is going to be dry aged. When
dry aging you want to make sure you keep
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everything clean and for that reason I
like to wear gloves. This is an UMA Dry
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bag kit it is not an ordinary bag. It is
a special bag used for dry aging, it
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allows moisture to escape without
letting anything bad get back in. It is
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the perfect way to dry aged at home
without any special equipment. Once I've
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removed the additional liquid that came
in the bag all there's left to do is
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transfer the meat inside of the bag. I've
gotten a lot of questions before should
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you pat it dry and the answer is no. You
want the meat wet because it will give a
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better contact, so never pat it dry. Using
a special fabric that comes with the kit
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all you have to do is vacuum seal it. Do
your best because you will not be able
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to remove all the air out. Now transfer
it to a cooling rack and it is ready for
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dry aging. There is nothing else to do
but put it on your refrigerator and wait
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45 days. Now I really want to compare how
good this dry aging will be so I got
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another eye round. Once I slice it open you
can already tell that it is a tough cut
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of meat. Since it's a working muscle you
can see there is almost no intramuscular
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fat. Most people do not use as a steak
they use it as a roast. Now that I have
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two halves one of them I am going to be
using the pineapple to tenderize it, and
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the other one is going to be the control.
for the control I cut steaks at one
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and a half inches thick, then I seasoned
them well with salt pepper and garlic
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powder. Now I don't have high hopes for
this one, but I want to have something to
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compare with. Since this one is ready
let's move right into the pineapple. Now
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this might sound weird but pineapple
have enzymes not only on the fruit
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itself but also on the skin. To ensure we
extract the most amount of the enzymes I
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am going to be blending all of it
including the skin. I know it sounds
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weird to you because we don't eat the
skin we will also not be eating this
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blend. Once he does its job we just
gotta wash it off.
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And that's what you're looking for.
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I cut three more steaks out
of the
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one I had left I added them to the mix
and make sure he was a hundred percent
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submerged. Now there's left to do is let
them marinate for two hours in the
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refrigerator. Once the two hours had
elapsed I quickly removed them and as
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you already know by my tenderizing
experiment this makes the meat very soft.
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Now it really feels like a steak, and I
think if I leave it any longer it will
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start disintegrating. You can also see
that the color completely changed, that
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redness is gone and the enzymes started
to cook the steak already. It is
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important to wash it all off. The enzymes
already did their job be sure to rinse
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it under cold water for at least three
times. Once that was done now you can
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really see what I was talking about. It
no longer looks like a steak it looks
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like fish. But now that they're all ready
it is time to season them and I kept the
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seasoning the same, used salt pepper
and garlic powder. Now let's get back to
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After 45 days of dry
aging this is what it looks like.
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Without even opening the bag it feels like a
rock. As you can imagine it was already
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hard before dry aging but now that I
open it and I feel this crust it is
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exactly like a rock. There is no Bend
whatsoever.
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Once the bags was completely removed
this is what it looks like.
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Then I got one of my sharpest knife and
tried to slice them into steaks and boy
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was it hard, but I managed to do it.
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As you know you have to remove the outer
edges. Once I've done that I was rewarded
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with three beautiful steaks.
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If you did not see the process and you
touch this, this capacitors a filet
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mignon. It feels extremely tender but it
is also very small. But the important
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thing is how is it going to taste. To
make sure the season is consistent I use
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the exact same thing which is salt
pepper and garlic powder.
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Now I want to give these eye rounds the
best possible chance of becoming a steak.
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I'll be using this as my basting butter.
It's pretty straightforward we have one
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stick of melted butter mixed with two
tablespoons of garlic paste, mix it well
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and your basting butter is done.
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But now that we have the steaks ready it is
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time to answer that good question; Will
dry-aged actually make that eye round a steak?
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What about the pineapple, can that be
better than dry aging? Well there's only
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one way to find out. I'm going to be
front searing these steaks and then I'm
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going to be cooking them in indirect
heat, and don't forget the basting butter.
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But now I say it's enough talking and it
is time to cook them so let's do it!
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Alright everybody we have our beautiful
steaks right here. Angel are you ready to
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try? Yeah. This okay let's be very clear
so to set your expectations right. They
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are not expensive wagyu they are
regular steaks yeah, alright. OK. That way we
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can judge it properly right all right. So
here's the experiment these are all $1
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steak. Now we are gonna judge and find
out how much more it costs from a buck.
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Makes sense?
Okay all right what was that face so
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you're not having a good expectation
already. You just told me it's a one dollar steak!
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It is a $1 steak. I had actual $1 steak before so...They didn't look like that right? No they didn't.
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Alright, so we're gonna see how much more money they're worth in our opinion sounds good? Alright
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go for the first one. We're gonna start
this one here and then we're gonna go
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Okay. Alright this will be the first one.
Yes I did cut it real thin everybody huh,
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it's like a thin sliced. Cheers! Cheers!
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Yeah, this one cost $1.
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I can't believe I'm
chewing this much for such a thin slice.
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Maybe 50 cents. Maybe, maybe.
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Oh. What do you think Angel? Ah... I think would be great in a sandwich. Yeah with some ketchup and
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cheese.
Even though yeah ketchup and cheese.
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Anything to mix it up. Something to give it a little more moisture. I think I think I cut a
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little too thick. I think it needs to be
even thinner than this for a sandwich.
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Yeah for a sandwich yeah,I mean it's not that bad for a sandwich.
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It's not it's not bad, I mean it's it's it's a
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steak everybody. All right let's go for,
you want try this one or this one?
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This one okay . Let's just go in order.
Let's just go in order.
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What is that dry aged or something? Why
are you saying? Cuz they're small as
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hell. Ha, ha yes it is dry aged. You ready for it?
Let's go. Alright
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Dry to the max aged.
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There's zero juice on it.
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This is not fun. This is not good
everybody.
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I don't enjoy that. You? No.
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I think that one got cheaper. I think
this one here is a dollar and this one
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here is 50 cents. You agree. Yeah I mean
going from this one to this one yeah it
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makes this one a lot better. This one is
a lot better for sure. This one I have no idea...
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What happens with this one here is the
flavor hmm I feel that you feel that
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dry agedness flavor? Yeah I have the dry
flavor on it but it's like dry.
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There's no juiciness, the tenderness is not there
there is almost nothing there but you
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can feel in the end after you eat it
that little dry age is there. Yeah yeah
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you could taste the dry aged a little
bit but. In regards to flavor I think I
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enjoyed this one a little bit more but
because this one is so juicy it's. I mean
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it's not even so juicier it's just this
one's more juicy than this one so this
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one tastes better than this one. I agree
all right let's go for the last one
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Angel. This one I can't put my finger on
what you did. Well let's find out right
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now this one's still juicy. They didn't
get a lot of searing on the outside
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though. It did not see her very well.
That's one of the things with this
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method you can't get a wonderful sear
on it it. Looks more tender.It does look tender
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Alright well look even the fibers are completely
separating apart. Yeah.
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Alright let's see. Let's try it.
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You going for seconds. Yeah after all those dry steaks, some juiciness.
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You going for seconds.
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That's a good sign right there.
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I think this is the winner.
I agree 100%.
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I'm going for seconds. This one is good! Way more tender mm-hmm way more juicy.
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Definitely the winner everybody.
Hmm. I consider this a steak. That's a good one.
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That's a steak. This one's our steak, I
think these are not steak these are kind
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of like stew meat
or something else.
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Alright, so here's the deal
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these are eye around steaks. Alright. This is
just a regular eye round cooked as a steak.
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Okay. And you can tell that it is a eye round everybody it is. This is
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definitely a dollar steak right here.
this was dry aged for 35 days.
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We recommend dry aging an eye round?
It is waste of your time.
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The flavor is there
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maybe if you want to dry aged it so that
you can combine with another type of
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meat to make burgers out of it so that
you get the flavor of the dry aged on
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your burger
then it's recommendable. But you need
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you need some fat though. Oh you need a lot of fat, you don't need some fat you need a lot of fat because
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there is absolutely no juiciness on the
steak it is dry but the nice little
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flavor of dry aged is there in the end.
In the end yeah it's got that little
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aftertaste. I agree. This one right here
was the pineapple Angel like we did our
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first experiment.
Uh pineapple is good man I've been telling you.
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Pineapple works like a charm if you
have never done the pineapple everybody
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I recommend it. Now Angel if we have to
judge we got steaks they're all one
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dollar. Let's judge on price how much
does this steak actually cost for you?
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One dollar.I agree.
How much does this one went. It's free.
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This one is given to you for free. It was
a sample steak. Yes sample steak that you
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cut it on a butcher shop just to give it
away for people to try. This is not good
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whatsoever it is the very first time we
ever done a dry-aged that it doesn't
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taste good Angel. I think so yeah yeah
very first time.
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Pineapple steak from $1 to 50 bucks more
or less how much do you give this steak?
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25. 25 bucks?
Wow that's a lot of money. if they if I
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go to a restaurant they give me the
steak I'll eat it I'll be happy. If I go
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to their restaurant I'm not gonna
mention any names but I have been to
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some restaurants that have steaks worse
than this one here and they charged me
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15 to 18 bucks for a steak and this
steak here is better
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can tell you right now. I can't mention
names but you know this is considered a
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good let's just say it's not great but a
good steak. Yeah. You agree. Yeah. It is not
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great. Now if you have some side dishes
with this if we have some amazing mashed
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potatoes like some incredible pasta that
we did with a... The mashed potatoes from from
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the video of the salt video you did. Yeah
from that one or you know if you have
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not seen that video you got to check it out. But anything that complements a side dish this I can see
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be worth 20 bucks to 25 bucks on a
restaurant. Like just like you said if
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you have a nice and amazing side dish. So
and if you're gonna buy it on the store
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on the supermarket definitely give it a
try to the pineapple. That's what I
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recommend. These are the results I hope
you guys enjoyed this video, I hope it
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was informative to you. I know you've
been asking me Guga dry aged some
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inexpensive meat. I did it does not work
because you, for dry aging you gotta have
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something. Because it concentrates the
flavor it tenderizes the flavor but if
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you got no nothing there, there's
nothing here. Maybe maybe if you were to
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cooked a little more raw. Now but then
that would be like it would it would no
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it wouldn't be bad for you. It just
wouldn't work no matter what happens
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this was cook at low temperature and
then it's still pink in the middle.
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It just it does not work everybody it
does not work. There's your experiment
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you guys asked for it I made it happen.
If you have any other suggestions make
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sure you comment down below. I hope you
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much for watching and we'll see you guys
in the next one take care of buddy.
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And don't dry age your eye round. No it is a waste
of your time. Big time. Just grab some
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pineapple you don't have to wait put it
in there and you're good to go.
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This was good.
It's good. Those are uh good for dogs.
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Good for the dogs the dogs will love
them all. Now what do you say we cook
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some picanha? We gotta go everybody
take care. Bye bye
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Picanha time baby. Let's do it!
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Now we're talking. Now you are happy again. Now you got my mood back up.
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