Might be a Friday post. Possible fake news, dry aged beef in butter

fruitguy

Not sure if this is fake news. Anyone seen dry aged beef in butter. Not sure it would even work. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/designtaxi.com/amp-news/400904/Cowabunga-This-Ultra-Decadent-Steak-Is-Aged-In-An-Entire-Block-Of-Butter/

JohnInCarolina

I saw this awhile ago.  I don’t think it’s fake.  It makes sense to me.

Killit_and_Grillit

Dear God please let this be the next food revolution. 

fruitguy

Told my wife I was heading to Costco for 10lbs if butter and a strip loin. 

GoooDawgs

That's awesome!  Would the butter actually penetrate the meat though?  Or would it just stay on the outside? 

Photo Egg

I know the aging process aids in tenderness as the meat breaks down but seems like you would loose the flavor increase as there would be little moisture loss encased in the butter.
You also loose the whole forum fight about cutting off the outer rind or not.

thetrim

Not bad.  I have a couple strip steaks hanging out in my fridge, but they are not encased in butter.

gdenby

Sounds interesting. I wonder what would happen if cultured butter was used, letting the lactobacilli work on the meat fats, etc.

510BG

thetrim said:

Not bad.  I have a couple strip steaks hanging out in my fridge, but they are not encased in butter.tt3rhe3t2r

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smokingal

I've not heard of using butter, but there are meat purveyors in Europe (Germany, Sweden) who coat beef subprimals in beef tallow.  

This is in German, but you can see their process for applying the tallow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxZZJ5mSNY (starts at 58 seconds)

Then what the meat looks like after removing the tallow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_5ihlSkrDI (starts at 50 seconds)

RRP

I'm skepitcal since dry aging means concentrating the beef taste by removing the tasteless water in the cells. OTOH the butter treatment as well as the tallow method mentioned in this thread in my humble opinion could enhance the taste, but not in a true dry aging transformation.

Something in this line though does work. This trick came from blind testing at Cook's Illustrated a few years back and I agree it works. That is to heavily dust a steak with salt and then seal it in a food save bag for four hours prior to grilling. During that time the salt pulls the moisture out onto the surface mixing with the salt and then the meat draws the salty moisture back into the meat. Trust me - it does work! 

Now an addendum - I still have a "Steak Aging Sauce" produced by Sansaire. The directions call for using 1 Tbs per pound of meat in a bag, no marinating period needed and then cook sous vide! The declared ingredients are merely wheat, soy and anchovy. They claim it is "scientifically formulated with a high concentration of glutamic acid". 

I have yet found time to try it!