Today we are going to look at different ways of tenderizing meat:
Take photos/blog about what we do today and next class. The experiment (manipulated variable):
1. Control - grill - kitchen #
2. Scored - grill - kitchen #
3. Pounded - grill - kitchen #
4. Diced or minced - sauté - kitchen #
5. Cut ACROSS the grain - sauté - kitchen #
6. Cut WITH the grain - sauté - kitchen #
7. Diced Fresh Pineapple - grill - kitchen #
8. Canned Pineapple - grill - kitchen #
9. Diced Fresh Papaya - grill - kitchen #
10. Diced Fresh Kiwi - grill - kitchen #
11. Lemon Juice - grill - kitchen #
12. White Wine Vinegar - grill - kitchen #
13. White Wine (dealcoholized) - grill - kitchen #
14. Beer (dealcoholized) - grill - kitchen #
15. Pop (Pepsi or Coke) - grill - kitchen #
16. Buttermilk - grill - kitchen #
17. Salt - grill - kitchen #
18. Clubhouse (bromelain) - grill - kitchen #
19. Emporia (papain) - grill - kitchen #
20. Diced fresh tomatoes - grill
21. Apple cider - grill
22. Cream of tartar - tartaric acid - grill
23. Water control - grill
Asian Marinade - sorry but I never measure this one!
Score or pound the flank steak and marinade in the fridge overnight.
Next class we will cook the samples and evaluate them for tenderness (NOT for flavour). After this we will be looking at creating our own marinades for flavour, cooking with slow cookers and quick cooking with pressure cookers. You will also be making homemade burgers and buttermilk fried chicken as labs in this unit.
Rate the tenderness of the meat treatments using the follow scale as a guide:
1 very tough
2 tough
3 somewhat tough
4 somewhat tender
5 very tender
Other descriptors you MAY wish to use include: dry, mushy, unpalatable.
For example, overpowering flavours, too salty, too lemony etc...
Questions to answer:
- mechanical - grinding, scoring, pounding, cutting across the grain, dicing
- chemical - making use of an acid - tomato, citrus, vinegar, carbonated drinks, wine, beer, fermented products (yogurt, sour cream, buttermilk)
- enzymatic - enzymes break down amino acid sequences - bromelain (pineapple), papain (papaya), actinidin (kiwi fruit) - bromelain and papain are also available in a powdered form
Take photos/blog about what we do today and next class. The experiment (manipulated variable):
1. Control - grill - kitchen #
2. Scored - grill - kitchen #
3. Pounded - grill - kitchen #
4. Diced or minced - sauté - kitchen #
5. Cut ACROSS the grain - sauté - kitchen #
6. Cut WITH the grain - sauté - kitchen #
7. Diced Fresh Pineapple - grill - kitchen #
8. Canned Pineapple - grill - kitchen #
9. Diced Fresh Papaya - grill - kitchen #
10. Diced Fresh Kiwi - grill - kitchen #
11. Lemon Juice - grill - kitchen #
12. White Wine Vinegar - grill - kitchen #
13. White Wine (dealcoholized) - grill - kitchen #
14. Beer (dealcoholized) - grill - kitchen #
15. Pop (Pepsi or Coke) - grill - kitchen #
16. Buttermilk - grill - kitchen #
17. Salt - grill - kitchen #
18. Clubhouse (bromelain) - grill - kitchen #
19. Emporia (papain) - grill - kitchen #
20. Diced fresh tomatoes - grill
21. Apple cider - grill
22. Cream of tartar - tartaric acid - grill
23. Water control - grill
Asian Marinade - sorry but I never measure this one!
- soy sauce and water about 2:1 ratio
- hoisin sauce (optional)
- lemon juice
- sesame oil
- honey or brown sugar
- garlic powder
- ginger powder
- ground coriander
Score or pound the flank steak and marinade in the fridge overnight.
Next class we will cook the samples and evaluate them for tenderness (NOT for flavour). After this we will be looking at creating our own marinades for flavour, cooking with slow cookers and quick cooking with pressure cookers. You will also be making homemade burgers and buttermilk fried chicken as labs in this unit.
Rate the tenderness of the meat treatments using the follow scale as a guide:
1 very tough
2 tough
3 somewhat tough
4 somewhat tender
5 very tender
Other descriptors you MAY wish to use include: dry, mushy, unpalatable.
For example, overpowering flavours, too salty, too lemony etc...
Questions to answer:
- Which treatment surprised you because it was either tougher or more tender than expected?
- Were there any treatments that were less appealing than you predicted or more appealing than you predicted?