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Conrad "Lynx" Wong ([personal profile] tuftears) wrote2014-02-08 10:27 pm
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Cooking Experiment: Teriyaki Beef Brisket

I promised a picture of the beef brisket when I got done. Well, here it is!



Next time I make this, I'll have to use proportionally more meat per serving than I planned this time! It's a bit odd; I used 1.2 pounds of beef brisket, which normally would make four servings, but I think it actually seems to make more like two servings. That'd be what... 9 ounces of beef per serving? Yikes.

This turned out to be a surprising amount of work when I got to the 'take it out of the crockpot and make the teriyaki sauce'. Mostly I hate having to use extra dishes and do more work when I've been trained to expect that crockpot meals will be ready right out of the pot. What I did here was to take the meat out and put it on a cutting board to rest, prior to being sliced (and it was NOT easy to slice, was VERY tender), scoop out the veggies, then emptied the remaining marinade/meat juices into a pot to cook with some cornstarch slurry to thicken it up.

Well, I've got a total of three meals out of this, plus a half-bottle of beef teriyaki sauce to be used for another occasion, and a serving of teriyaki carrots and pineapple, likewise. And plenty of leftover rice. Not too bad for a cooking experiment!
rowyn: (Me 2012)

[personal profile] rowyn 2014-02-13 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Crock pots by themselves are too much work for me! :D

[identity profile] tuftears.livejournal.com 2014-02-18 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, there are simpler recipes... Stews and chili. Just cut up veggies and meat, put them in, add some liquid and spices, cover and cook for 8 hours, you're good. This is just complicated because I wanted not-stew.
rowyn: (Me 2012)

[personal profile] rowyn 2014-02-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the other issue is that I don't like stew and I am not a big fan of chili. c_c

[identity profile] tuftears.livejournal.com 2014-02-18 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
That leaves soup as the other easy-to-make thing. I've never tried making soup from bones and water and spices, though, so I couldn't report on how easy/difficult/tasty it is.

But if you don't have a crockpot, it's probably not worth buying one just to make soup!

Oh, and pulled/shredded pork, beef, or any other meat. MOST meats will be easily crumble-able if you cook them for 10 hours in a crockpot.