/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15569667
You're the dumbass who let it sit that long, I usually go 3 hours max

>>15569673
HE TOLD ME TO DO 24 HOURS

>>15569673
Idiot. You can dry brine for five days without issue and it results in a perfect seasoning and far better crust.

>add salt
>it tastes salty
whoa

>>15569667
Did you use table salt like an idiot? Was it on a wire rack so it got air circulation around the whole thing? As long as it's racked and you're using kosher/sea salt or some other large grain salt you can put as much as the surface will hold without over salting it. Maybe you just have butter with an absurd amount of salt?

>>15569766
why cant i use table salt i just put it on a platter in the fridge

>>15569768
Fucking retard.

>>15569758
Then what did OP do wrong?

>>15569768
Cause there's different kinds of salt

>>15569773
what did i do wrong

OP HERE I FORGOT TO MENTION I MICROWAVED IT.

>>15569791
kys

>>15569667
if your having problems salting meat and letting it sit for to long or not long enough
just go buy A1 its more your speed.
and look at those verieties. man just buy a bottle.
you fucked up salting meat overnight

>>15569678
That guy is a reddit faggot, needlessly complicated recipes that don't taste very good in some cases

>>15569781
You used table salt. On average because of the tiny grains it's going to have about 50% more salinity than an equivalent amount of kosher salt. Plus the tiny grains allow more to stick to the surface meaning even more salt is absorbed. Don't use table salt when dry brining. Or cooking for that matter. Table salt is just that, for final adjustments at the table.

>>15569768
rip bro

Just measure the salt, dumbass. 1.2% of the weight of the steak. Perfect every time, no matter what salt you're using.

>>15569781
Table salt is much denser per unit volume than kosher salt or fancy rock salt, because of how much more finely it's ground. So by using table salt with the same measurements as you would kosher salt, you made it 2x as salty as intended.

>>15569758
>dry brine
Cure the word is cure

>>15569837
It's not though. A cure requires the use of nitrites or nitrates. It's simply brining using the meats own juice to form the brine solution rather than adding a wet brine.

>>15569863
i raise you 1 "brine ≠ marinade"

>>15569876
No it doesn't. A brine is all about ensuring fluid retention when a food gets cooked and marinades are about tenderizing and flavoring.

>>15569895
is that to say brines can't tenderize or flavor?

>>15569982
Nope. You can even make a marinading brine. But they're not the same thing.

>>15569667
COOKING A STEAK IS NOT DIFFICUT AND YOU PEOPLE OVERCOMPLICATE IT SO MUCH JESUS CHRIST
1. SALT
2. PEPPER
3. HEAT

>>15570052
No, it's not difficult. But that doesn't mean you can't get more desirable results with more complex techniques.

>>15570063
Yeah true but its pretty hard to fuck a steak up. Personally I grill my steak and serve with garlic-rosemary butter

>>15570098
Nobody asked.

>>15569768
LMAO

>>15569863
no it doesn't that just helps stop botulism

>>15569834
>>15569805
These OP. I usually do a ratio 3:1 of Coarse Salt and Sodium Bicarbonate. Apply as normal, dry brine for 3 days on a foil/plastic lined, wire racked baking sheet uncovered in the fridge. That gives plenty of time for the salt to penetrate all the way through, excess water to be pulled out, and juices to redistribute and suspend in the protein matrix. Also the surface pH will change to yield an excellent Maillard Reaction. Cook however you want after that.

>>15569837
Can they cure your autism with salt?

>>15570961
>can only cook sloppa

>>15569768
>table salt on a ribeye
no more children on the internet

>>15569667
That pic just looks like the steak is just CAKED in salt. I’ve never seen a pic like this before

>>15569768

>>15569768
Notice how nobody actually tells him why you apparently can’t use table salt. That’s because they don’t know either. Absolute state of /ck/.

>>15571136
see
>>15569805
>>15569834

>>15571136
The problem was a too-salty steak seasoned with table salt. The solution is not to use table salt... because it will be too salty. That IS the why.

>>15569805
What a fucking idiot... Man salt Is salt, it's always the same salt faggot stop

>>15571342