Beef stew tests | stovetop vs oven, temperatures, marinades, pre-seasoning, thickeners


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  1. Bonnie Harris
    Bonnie Harris says:

    I am intrigued by your sponsor, LetsGetChecked. As you said, why should you have to deal with a nonfunctioning system that can bankrupt most of us over a broken bone because you need a "permission" from someone who charges you an arm and a leg for it. For taking care of your own body.

    Of course, as soon as you said that, I wanted to say to you: "Imagine being a woman and needing to get "permission" from the government, as well."

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  2. Bill Donnelly
    Bill Donnelly says:

    One week and ten different variations to come to my basic, but magnificent beef bourguignon . . . brown the beef, remove; brown some onions and bacon (if you have any, if not, no probs); add garlic, beef, wine, stock, squeeze of tomato paste; bring to the boil then put in 150°C oven for a couple of hours . . . if you feel fancy add pickling onions or small shallots and mushrooms and cook for another hour or so . . . thick, rich, tender and tasty . . . and no stuffing around. The biggest variable I have found is the wine . . . crap wine = crap taste; good wine === great taste.

    I love these myth busting videos!

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  3. And I
    And I says:

    Hey Adam, I'm sure that you know, but I just learned that anyone who can prove that they have an ancestor who lived in Italy in the last 150 years can request Italian citizenship. Quite mind-blowing!

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  4. lq
    lq says:

    I never quite realise how trash the US healthcare system truly is until I see sponsor spots like this. I get the 'male hormone advanced test' annually. I don't even see a specialist, I just talk to my GP (over the phone for short appointments like that too), she emails me the referral slip, I print it out at home and take it to the pathology clinic of my choice, get some blood drawn, and I'm on my way. I don't pay a cent. We do have similar services to the sponsor of the channel (I guess if somebody wanted to be real discreet), and even through that, this same test costs around 80USD.

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  5. John h Palmer
    John h Palmer says:

    I just watched the French Chef with Julia Child and for Beuf Burgenon, she did brown the meat first before the wine and into the oven to cook for something like 4 hours and she says, to leave it alone while in the oven. Hands off in other words. She even shows how to saute mushrooms, clean them and to cut them, and how to do the pearl onions, as in, how to boil them briefly and then peal then, though these days, you can get them frozen in bags in your grocer's freezer case.

    Anyway, fun to watch her in her this show doing her thing. I suspect this was the preferred way to do a dish like this even back then, or earlier.

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  6. Silk
    Silk says:

    A few years ago, I watched Ree Drummond’s pot roast recipe. She suggested 275 degrees, so I tried it on the 3-3.5 pound roasts I generally cook. The results always provide a great texture.

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  7. Tsc Tempest
    Tsc Tempest says:

    Nice job Adam. What about leftovers? When you freeze them and then defrost, how does your thickener perform? Do you get any loss of water from the thawed thickener? If so, what do you suggest to fix it?

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  8. eli keiser
    eli keiser says:

    get your bag but the ads are getting long and the videos dedicated to ads seem more frequent. maybe it’s just me but definitely starting to lose my attention more and more

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  9. Fred Coyote
    Fred Coyote says:

    The seasoning test was not really correct. Try kosher salting (dry brine) and allow it to sit for a few hours and up to a day. Then do the side-by-side test. Salting a few minutes before searing does exactly nothing. Koshering over a few hours before cooking changes the proteins allowing them to hold more moisture longer during the braise.

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  10. Obyvvatel
    Obyvvatel says:

    The story about the lab tests makes me think US healthcare is weird even when you go and pay with your own money directly. Here in the EU I can go (without insurance, without touching the public system) to a lab and pay like 40$ and get any common blood test I want, and I'm not even from a fancy EU country. Regular blood+urine test costs about the same as a meal in Mc'Donalds and I got the results the same day. Again, that is out of my own pocket, without even touching the public healthcare stuff.

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  11. The Gent
    The Gent says:

    Wait, you're paying obscene amounts AND you had to wait? My understanding was, for those that can afford it, the US healthcare system works fine; it's the majority who can't who are the ones with those issues.

    Damn, so that system doesn't work for *anyone*?

    Jesus…

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  12. Benjamin Philipp
    Benjamin Philipp says:

    The way you pronounce the French "bœuf" sounds closer to their way of saying "meh" or "whatever" ("bof"), probably quite dated, since I remember it from school books in the 2000s (which means it was definitely already out again by then) ^^
    (See bœf vs bɔf)

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  13. Trudgemank95
    Trudgemank95 says:

    You're absolutely right about the home testing thing–that should be the future of many diagnostics. Government (read: taxes) paying for the same old trashcan system wouldn't make it any better; we have to change the system itself!

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  14. im a comment J
    im a comment J says:

    5:12 your health care is still leaps and bound above canadas at least your doctors will see you ours ignore you and if they do see you after 6 months of calling they say its stress even though you cant breath anymore then they ignore you for another 7-8 months before talking to you again once that happens they will say its stress and refuse tests then another 6-7 months go by you pass out get rushed to the hospital are told you have 2 weeks to live and then die of lung cancer becuase a 3×3 patch of cancer on your lung is totally stress or in my friends case were his dad fell broke his spin and our ambulance drivers were so uselss my friend had to care his father with broken back to the ambulance or the old lady that fell IN THE HOSPITAL and smashed her mouth and face on a railing when she fell unconscious and had doctors and nurses ignore her or the old man that died after being sent home from the emergency room 4 times with a rib that punctured his lung he died at home after the fourth send home but hey good thing we dont pay with our money we just pay with our lives

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