So last Christmas we ordered 10 pounds (7 for the meal and 3 for freezing for later use) of grass fed organic beef from a grocery store called Heinen’s here in Northeast Ohio. Either way, the principles for cooking techniques are the same. There’s a big difference between grass fed quality and grain fed… unfortunately there’s a big cost difference too. We are 100% sold on eating grass fed organic beef for many reasons, and we do a lot of talk about how great it is.
This is not a requirement but I’d be selling myself short if I didn’t mention it. This is not a quick cooking dish!! Try to Use Grass Fed and Organic if You Can This is key, and I chose to do a pot roast and so glad I did.Ĭhuck is chuck, it is not a nice tender cut that can substitute for a filet mignon, right? This is why when you do searches for pot roast recipes, they always talk about using a slow cooker, or cooking for a long time. You can do a regular roast which is more like a dry roast meaning it isn’t sitting in liquid while it cooks. You can see in the image what mine looked liked after it was done cooking – it was nowhere close to dry!
What’s the difference?Ī pot roast cooks in a pot with liquid filled up at least half way, and uses “chuck eye”, which is a tougher and fattier cut of meat. I learned a few things along the way that will help you too, such as understanding the difference between a pot roast and a regular roast. What is the Difference Between a Roast and a Pot Roast? The secret is time and temperature and a few other tips I give. The recipe I’m including below helps to avoid producing a tough, rubbery yucky pot roast. Since I’m not a meat and potatoes person, when I thought of a chuck pot roast as an option for the Christmas eve dinner, a few words came to mind: heavy, fatty, tough and starchy.
CHUCK ROAST RECIPES HOW TO
If I could do it on my own with great success, so can you! How to Avoid a Heavy and Tough Pot Roast Disaster The combo of the two are what is discussed in this post and is the recipe I’ve since used a few times with utmost success. I also used some tips from America’s Test Kitchen to modify her recipe. The recipe I ended up using was a combination of two recipes from two other cooking sites, one being The Pioneer Woman whose images for how to brown the beef helped me overcome my intimidation of that part. Sounds so Betty Crocker-ish that it makes you wonder if we’re up to the challenge. If you’ve never made pot roast, especially for others, it can be daunting. I should have done a video myself for this year, maybe I’ll do it later and add it in. I did quite a bit of research on how to prepare the best pot roast, read a lot of recipes and articles, and watched multiple videos too. This was my first pot roast and I was going to be serving 8 other people who were coming over for the Christmas Eve dinner… oh and they were my in-laws so no pressure right? It isn’t quick, but it certainly isn’t difficult either. This is one recipe I have to share it with you before the holidays in case you want to try it. You all know I’m about simplicity and not over-complicating recipes needlessly. Last Christmas I made the best chuck beef pot roast. You can read my disclosure for more info.
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