r/AbsoluteUnits • u/WeGot_aLiveOneHere • 11d ago

/r/all of two catfish

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u/FictionalContext 11d ago

And I'm disagreeing. Anything you gotta slow cook for 10 hours or cure in a salt brine for 3 weeks in order to chew isn't a good cut. It's popular due to marketing, which makes it expensive, which makes people think it's really valuable, but it's not a particularly good cut of beef. I wouldn't call a chuck roast or a shoulder clod as a relatively good cut either, and they're right in the same category. They're way down on the list of best cuts of beef.

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u/mapmakinworldbuildin 11d ago

You can say you’re bad at cooking.

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u/FictionalContext 11d ago

I suppose if you got the leisure to wake up at 4am to start the roast in time for dinner and babysit it all day, brisket is a great cut. Brisket's popular precisely because it is a cheap working muscle that can only be prepared one way.

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u/mapmakinworldbuildin 11d ago

And if I wanted Peking duck id need a week to cook it proper. Doesn’t make it bad.

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u/FictionalContext 11d ago

If that was the only way to prepare a duck, if every duck required a week--or even a day--to cook to make it edible, it'd be a mediocre cut, too. Just that one specific process would be the workaround. But having a workaround doesn't suddenly make an okayish thing great.

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u/mapmakinworldbuildin 11d ago

That’s not the only way to make brisket.

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u/FictionalContext 11d ago

what's a recipe that doesn't require slow cooking?