Food That Preserved A Nation: Salt Beef
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"I'd sooner eat the horse, Ser."
Excellent video, as always
The absence of water is why honey can last 100s of years
can carve cow, in the shape of a cow. clack clack time with a piece of hard tackXD
on a more serious note, pre salted soup base here we come. no wonder so many meals were soup back then
Thank you for always being my comfort channel….pulling me away from the garbage from the modern world…feels cozy watching your videos….🥹
This is gross. This is survival. Survival is gross. Cuisine is art. I am an artist. I am conflicted.
I'm wondering if maybe they cut more of the fat off beforehand as it's what would go rancid first. Plus fat would be far more useful to render for other things rather than be used in this manor.
Hey, Mr. Smee! How’s Cap’n Hook these days?
Thank you for eating it for us. We are so thankful for refrigeration.
The first thing I thought when you said salt beef was salt pork, though that's really not a part of my life or life story either.
But boiling the meat removes all the nutrients from the beef. I know they had no choice but to do that. And they probably discarded the water with the nutrients because it was so salty. Poor people. Must have sucked
Wondering if he fed the remainder to the kids.
I tried salting pork, just couldn't bring myself testing my stomach while fresh meat were readily available. Very time and resource consuming salting pork, versus pressure canning!
I'm curious to know if there are modern day salt porks and salt beefs that act as a modern evolution of the ideas of old. Beef Jerky seems like it but I'm curious to see if there are any others.
I’ve eaten home made salt pork and home made cured pork and beef alike, it’s probably not something to recommend lol
It’s not bad, and personally I’m not worried about my local meats having any specific pathogens that would make me sick.
I eat a pound of bacon for breakfast. I eat a pound of bacon for lunch. And I usually drink my dinner. Iykyo
Historic royal palaces did this for a full year and only the top piece got that grey.
That looks like it would be delicious if you boiled it then fried it in a pan w/ some ghee or rendered beef fat to get a slightly crispy outside… 😋🥩
1:07 I used to smoke that stuff! 😂
5:18 It was at this moment that I realized that was not a large block of salt on the table as an example, but actually the preserved meat!
Salt beef is good when the going gets rough but high salt and protein in specific situations is an issue because it demands a higher water intake both because of the salt and because of the protein. Protein will not be digested without water. So long as it's balanced with high water intake you're fine. There are other methods of preservation that reduce salt, it won't taste good but it's protein and some fat. Just wouldn't want salt beef on a boat with limited fresh water. The one caveat is if you're sweating a lot it will naturally sweat out the salt, which on 18th century ships you would be sweating lol.
Whenever i accidentally Over Salted a Soup or Meat? I cook with Turnips, Potatoes, Barley, Rice, etc.
These Absorb the Salt for you.
This also works for Reducing "Gamey" taste of meats.
People think the idea of just boiling meat as Bland and uninteresting but you have to realize that when it's heavily salted boiling it it comes out tasting pretty nice.
just watched Turn – is that your relative?
When I was 16 my family decided that instead of turkey for thanksgiving we were going to have a salt cured ham. It was the first one we had ever made and we soaked it in cold water over night like the instructions said and I think we even changed the water once. But that was not nearly enough soaking or changing the water. It was so salty it was inedible lol. It was a funny memory in retrospect because we were all so excited to try it and it was terrible lol.
Thinking about eating meat that had been dragged through water that the ship's heads had passed over… I can't even.
If I had to grow up all over again but I got to choose what came on TV, there'd be channels for Why Files and Townsends! I love these videos 🙂
When you're ready to prepare the salt beef, you soak it in 2-3 soaks in cool water untill the soak water isn't salty any more. Then prepare. Same with salted cured pork such as ham. No need to brine it.
Saw this and thought it’d be a perfect match for my sandwich. When you pulled out the round beef slices I realized this is exactly what I’m eating. 👀🥪
I'd imagine making soups and stews would be among the most common methods. Easy way to utilize some of the salt that you'd want to desaturate from the meat itself without wasting it. That would be a good way to reconstitute anything else that you'd have dried for preservation like mushrooms and the like.
Question, if u had a keg of salt beef w out the brine solution, could u recover or reporpose any of it – or was salt so cheap?
They may not have known why salt preservation worked, but surely they had some interesting theories.
Jiggs Dinner! We still buy it in buckets and vacuum packs in every grocery and corner store in Newfoundland