Tried my hand at Dry Aging - Dinner in progress

[SirPorkaLot]

Last time I purchased a front quarter, I asked them to leave the rib roast whole.
After sampling a couple of steaks off of it for Labor Day, I decided to dry age the rest of it using Umai Dry bags.

This was aged in the bottom drawer of my beef fridge. Today is day 34 and I thought I’d cut a couple more steaks off to see how it’s going.

This is the result.

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They’re sitting in the fridge with Q-Salt now, they’re gonna be grilled here in a bit.

The rest went back in, headed for 45-46 days

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[sudsandswine]

Nice! Curious to see what your thoughts are when you get to the longer aged stuff.

I used to dry age beef fairly often but haven’t in years. My someday goal is to use a single or double door beverage fridge and convert it into a large dry ager. And have multiple things going on at once.

[jzadski]

This is going to be good!

[SirPorkaLot]

Well that was a success!

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[Titch]

That looks wonderfull.

[ShadowDriver]

Oh, Lawd! Hell yes!

Flavor and tenderness thoughts?

[Jrogers84]

I did my first dry age a little while back and actually cooked one of the steaks tonight. Went 44 days on a strip loin using the bags. It seemed very mild to me to be honest. I have places around me that dry age so I’m pretty used to the taste. On the next strip loin I’d go 60 but I think I might go your way next time. Waiting on a creek stone sale! Yours look amazing!!

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[SirPorkaLot]

Oh, Lawd! Hell yes!

Flavor and tenderness thoughts?


Beefiness was off the charts. Meat was very good.

[Stingerhook]

I would say you nailed it John!

[Mikhail]

Dang, that looks good. I'm doing some filets tonight but since so wiped out from my trip I'm just gonna cast iron sear/roast them. Maybe with some Carne Crosta.

I guess I gotta try home aging.

[Shiz-Nit]

Those HAD to come out delicious.
Looks wonderful

[ModelMaker]

Yum Good.
Ed

[Big George's BBQ]

That looks and sounds amazing

[robertm]

Looks like you did it right!

If you like the dry age funkiness then the UMAI bags work great. I discovered myself, wife and inlaws are not fans of 40 day dry age flavor.

Expensive birthday meal which no one liked - fun stuff :mad: