Both the round and the brisket are relatively tough cuts of meat that are best cooked by slow, moist-heat cooking. Good corned beef is quite tender with a delicious salty flavor. The brine for making corned beef is similar to the brine used for making pickles. Thus, it's fair to say that corned beef is essentially pickled beef. One of the key ingredients in making corned beef is a curing salt called Prague powder , which is what gives the corned beef its distinctive pink color. Prague powder is made of sodium nitrite, a substance that has been the source of some controversy.
Sodium nitrite as well as sodium nitrate is a food additive that helps prevent the growth of bacteria that cause spoilage and food poisoning. The Mayo Clinic notes that:. Nitrates may also affect the way your body uses sugar, making you more likely to develop diabetes. Other sources, though, maintain that sodium nitrite is a harmless material that poses no adverse health risks.
This argument points out that more nitrite is ingested by eating vegetables such as spinach, celery, and lettuce than by eating cured meats.
Here's what I saw:. As you can see, the less I cooked the meat, the thinner the liquid exuded from the bag, clearly demonstrating that over the course of time, more and more collagen will get broken down into gelatin, which effectively thickens the cooking liquid. Cutting into and tasting each piece of beef confirmed this: the longer it cooked, the more the connective tissue was broken down, and the more tender it was.
This is the case not just for corned beef, but for any kind of slow-cooked meats, whether its barbecued pork ribs, or duck confit. Of course, time is not the only factor when slow-cooking—temperature can be just as important, if not more so. Here's what I found:. The amount of time needed to tenderize a piece of meat seems to increase exponentially as the temperature gets lower. So obviously, the best way to cook the beef is to just boil the heck out of it until tender, right?
Not so fast. Take a look at the next graph first. In this chart, I plotted the temperature it was cooked at along with the amount of moisture the beef lost.
If you remember, moisture getting squeezed out of muscle fibers due to temperature increase is a fast reaction. That means that whether I boil a piece of beef for 3 hours or 20 hours, it makes little difference to the overall moisture level.
The only thing that really matters is temperature. So really, to retain the maximum amount of moisture, I wanted to cook it at as low a temperature as possible.
It just seemed more like the corned beef I was used to. Well, if you've got an immersion circulator , that's your best bet. Your second far cheaper option is a slow cooker. Use a thermometer to double check the temperature of yours, and adjust your cooking time accordingly with the graph above.
Just place the corned brisket in a large Dutch oven, cover it with water by several inches, and bring the pot to a simmer over high heat. Remove it from heat, cover it with a lid, place in oven, and make sure to crack the lid a little. Don't have a slow cooker or a water bath? You may be able to hack it together on the stove. Once you've got it set at the right heat level, you should be able to leave it there relatively unattended until your beef is cooked.
And remember: if you want your beef flakier, just cook it at a higher temperature for a shorter time. Prefer it more dense and moist? Try a lower temperature for a longer time. Got it? The only problem remaining was the vegetables. This meant that I'd need to cook the vegetables separately. But potatoes cooked in the salty, beefy liquid is one of the best parts of a St.
Patrick's day boiled supper, ain't it? The solution was quite simple, and ended up killing two birds with one stone. Trying to slice through a hot, slippery, tender brisket is like trying to gut a live fish with a plastic knife—it ain't pretty. It is far easier to allow the corned beef to cool completely in some of its liquid, of course , then slice it when it has firmed up again. To this end, I decided that cooking my brisket the day before was the way to go.
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