All right! I'm at work and have a desktop so I can finally update on the steak aging. Turns out my wife is pretty awesome. The other day was my birthday. We didn't do much, but I was good with that. I didn't want to do much. When I got home Friday there were not any cars at my house, but when I went in I found all my friends from Augusta waiting to start a weekend long birthday party! It was a long weekend to say the least.
This is what the steak looked like when I pulled it out of the dry aging bag.
No that tasty looking I know. Smelled weird too. But I got to cutting so we could see what was on the inside. And here you have it.
Not bad! The meat was sooo tender. just pressing on it you could tell that it had really softened up a lot. Not that crust on the outside..... It was hard as a rock! 30, 40 minutes later and I had it all cut up and ready for the sous vide.
I didn't realize that I was going to be cooking for a crowd, so I decided to just cook them all the same way. I got a second soue vide for my birthday. I came in handy. I cooked them all for 4 hours at 135. This is what they looked like before I finished them.
Still not very appetizing I know. But then I threw them on the super hot grill!
They look pretty good now! I was cooking for 8 adults and we were not able to eat all of this. These steaks are about 2.5" thick! Knowing what I know now and if I had known that I was going to be cooking everything at once I would have cut them up the day before and salted so they could pull the salt in over night. These turned out excellent, but even though they were seasoned well the seasoning did not penetrate very well. The meat was very tender, and had a strong beef flavor. When I do it next I want to save about half the meat and freeze it to use as a control for comparison.
My butcher hooked us up with a cut on American Waygu. I just grilled it on the grill. Super tender!
Here is my Bday cake!
I would say that Dave is probably 'pickled' at this point.
