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Roast beef

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Gary
A photograph of the cooked beef on a cutting board with slices of meat and fat. The butchers knife and carving fork are included.

It has been a while since I roasted a lump of meat. Recently, I’ve been cooking my meat in a water bath.

Photograph of a portion of beef from Woolworths. It weighs 1.15 kg and cost $AUD21.26.

This 1.15 kg (2.54 lb) portion cost me $AUD21.26 ($AUD18.50/kg). I hope to get at least four or five meals from this.

Leftover thinly sliced beef with flaky salt and cheese makes for a great light lunch.

A photograph of the top shelf of my refrigerator with a piece of beef and a piece of lamb on a rack.

Recipe

Ingredients

Equipment

Instructions

  1. Dry brine the meat.
  2. On the day of cooking, insert the thermometer.
  3. Heat the oven to 120 °C.
  4. Place the meat in the middle of the oven.
  5. Cook until the middle of the meat is about 57 °C.
  6. Remove the meat and place it on a barbecue grill.
  7. Sear the surfaces of the meat with a gas torch to develop a superficial crust.
  8. Rest the meat.
  9. Carve the meat.
  10. Eat the meat.

Thoughts on the meal

My favourite roast beef is a standing rib roast. The roast beef I cooked tonight was pretty good, but not as good as a standing rib roast.

Photographs

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Photograph of a portion of beef from Woolworths. It weighs 1.15 kg and cost $AUD21.26.
A photograph of the top shelf of my refrigerator with a piece of beef and a piece of lamb on a rack.
A photograph of the uncooked beef in a roasting tray with sprigs of rosemary.
A photograph of the uncooked beef in a roasting tray with sprigs of rosemary. The thermometer probe is inserted.
A photograph of the cooked beef in a roasting tray with sprigs of rosemary. The thermometer probe is inserted.
A photograph of the cooked beef in a roasting tray with sprigs of rosemary. The thermometer probe has been removed the surface has been seared with a gas torch.
A photograph of the cooked beef on a cutting board with the carving fork inserted.
A photograph of the cooked beef on a cutting board with slices of meat and fat. The butchers knife and carving fork are included.
A photograph of the cooked beef sliced on a dinner plate. It has a bit of butter to one side plus a new red handled Victorinox steak knife.
A photograph of the cooked beef sliced on a dinner plate. It has a bit of butter to one side plus a new red handled Victorinox steak knife.

Sausages for lunch

I splurged at lunch and had a couple of cheese kransky snags and a couple of eggs fried in butter. Kransky sausages are made from veal and smoked pork, usually fried or grilled. I bought these snags from my butcher this morning. I heated them on my Weber Q+.

A photograph of a label for Rollbusch Quality Meats Cheese Kransky
A photograph of a grey plate with two cheese kransky sausages and two eggs fried in butter. The photograph also had a new red handled Victorinox steak knife and a black frank green cup containing coffee made with cream (which is splitting)
A sunrise photograph of the Indian Ocean facing west from Henley Beach with the Henley Beach Jetty on the right.
Henley Beach Jetty this morning at sunrise.
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Comments

15 responses to “Roast beef”

  1. Kris Avatar
    Kris

    Fun photos and tasty looking treats. You have made such a huge change in your lifestyle with your food choices..I keep thinking it can’t be as hard as I make it. I’m often reminded by one of my drs who said I ate better in AK. Probably because it was just me or me and mum. And she ate a lot of not food!

    You have been on my mind- Is the rain impacting your area?????

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    1. Gary Avatar
      Gary

      Thanks, Kris. Oddly, where I am in Adelaide it’s been dry and apart from one day last week we’ve not seen rain for months. My family in Brisbane though experienced huge volumes of rain.

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  2. Jeff the Chef Avatar
    Jeff the Chef

    Your pictures are really fantastic! That beef looks delicious. And I would have sausages for lunch any day!

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    1. Gary Avatar
      Gary

      Thanks, Jeff. The sausages were a great treat.

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  3. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella Avatar
    Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

    That looks so perfectly cooked with the blush pink interior Gary! :)

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    1. Gary Avatar
      Gary

      Thanks, Lorraine. It was pretty good.

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  4. ckennedy Avatar
    ckennedy

    We used to have roast beef every Sunday–the house always smelled delicious. Sometimes, my mother would boil it and serve it with spicy cocktail sauce–and it was divine. Cheers!

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    1. Gary Avatar
      Gary

      Thanks, Cecilia. As a boy, we never had a weekly Sunday roast, but roast chicken and pork featured often during the year. Beef wasn’t that common for us.

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  5. Roast rolled lamb shoulder – Yummy Lummy Avatar
    Roast rolled lamb shoulder – Yummy Lummy

    […] than cooking it in my benchtop oven as I did with the roast beef yesterday, I decided to cook it in my Weber […]

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  6. Barry Gresham Blogger Avatar
    Barry Gresham Blogger

    Great Post❤️

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  7. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    wow roast beef looks good. I also had sausage too. Farmer sausage is what it’s called. It’s really good. I had it with perogies and an egg.

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    1. Gary Avatar
      Gary

      Thanks, Becky. I don’t buy sausages often, but every now and then I like a treat. These cheese kransky snags were also spicy.

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  8. Eha Carr Avatar
    Eha Carr

    May I say that I am rather surprised that as a hugely knowledgeable medical doctor you put such a highly UPF food into your body?

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    1. Gary Avatar
      Gary

      Thanks, Eha.

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      1. Eha Carr Avatar
        Eha Carr

        Why comment at all if you never consequently discuss? Why should anyone bother to read if there can be no subsequent exchange of ideas :) ?

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