/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8970996

beef wellington. To get it perfect you need to know what the fuck you're doing. A lot of things can go wrong.

1) need a GOOD filet, any kind of tendons or shit in there will ruin it.
2) Sear it fast and well enough so it's rare inside, since it will cook on the inside
3) need to rest the meat and chill it so it doesn't bleed into the puff pastry
4) the mushroom duxelles have to be reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally dry, can take 10-15 minutes so it can soak up some of the steak juice and not have any water left in them so it can soak the puff pastry and fuck it up
5) Have the puff pastry around everything to create a perfectly even ring of mushrooms around it, and folding it nicely so when it cooks it doesn't puff up in the wrong place
6) cooking it for the correct amount of time so pastry is cooked, and steak not over
7) letting it rest in a way the juices don't run into the bottom of the pastry so it becomes soggy there.

It's a bitch to get juuuuuuuuuust right.