Should I beat the meat?

@badradger said
wine is for drinking mate dont waste it flavoring meat.

Don't pander to the American audience!
It's flavouring

And cheap wine is good for marinade.
(The stuff you used to take to parties as a teen)

@wolfgang59 said
Don't pander to the American audience!
It's flavouring

And cheap wine is good for marinade.
(The stuff you used to take to parties as a teen)

Cheap red wine is also good to use in a moussaka. (I took cider to parties as a teen).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Cheap red wine is also good to use in a moussaka. (I took cider to parties as a teen).

I think "Bull's Blood" was the cheapest way to buy alcohol when I was a teen.
Red wine from Rumania/Hungary/GodKnowsWhere

@wolfgang59 said
I think "Bull's Blood" was the cheapest way to buy alcohol when I was a teen.
Red wine from Rumania/Hungary/GodKnowsWhere

I have a Hungarian neighbour who gave me a bottle of his own wine (brought back with him I think from his last trip home). Impossible to drink as it was, but perfectly adequate in a Cobbler.

Quite a weird scenario that led to him giving me the bottle. Was a year or two ago now, when I was in the communal garden late at night, waiting for my dog to do his business. The neighbour, unaware of my presence in the dusky light, appeared suddenly through the side gate dragging some large plastic barrel. Gingerly he made his way down the garden path (still unaware of my presence) and proceeded to manoeuvre the heavy barrel into the shed. He almost jumped out of his skin when he spotted me, and seemed relieved when my response was a friendly one. (I made some quip about whether or not there was a body in the barrel). Anyway, he told me to wait there a moment and disappeared upstairs. When he returned he presented me with the bottle of wine.

But I digress.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I have a Hungarian neighbour who gave me a bottle of his own wine (brought back with him I think from his last trip home). Impossible to drink as it was, but perfectly adequate in a Cobbler.

Quite a weird scenario that led to him giving me the bottle. Was a year or two ago now, when I was in the communal garden late at night, waiting for my dog to do his business. ...[text shortened]... nd disappeared upstairs. When he returned he presented me with the bottle of wine.

But I digress.

... to be continued ...

@wolfgang59 said
Don't pander to the American audience!
It's flavouring

And cheap wine is good for marinade.
(The stuff you used to take to parties as a teen)

each to their own I dont like the flavor wine or cider imparts to any meal.

@badradger said
each to their own I dont like the flavor wine or cider imparts to any meal.

Sure sir, but you only eat cereal and chips.

@badradger said
each to their own I dont like the flavor wine or cider imparts to any meal.

Fair enough.
But it does tenderise the meat.

Try lemon juice or vinegar instead.

Or beer. A Guiness and beef casserole is delightful.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Sure sir, but you only eat cereal and chips.

i hate cereal apart from porridge oats, lucky for me her indoors is a trained chef so the scran in my Boro abode is superb, i dont like expensive wine like blue nun, tescos shiraz £4.25 a litre is more up my back alley.

@wolfgang59 said
Don't pander to the American audience!
It's flavouring

And cheap wine is good for marinade.
(The stuff you used to take to parties as a teen)

My mother marinated beef-steak with redwine vinegar. It was always tender and delicious.

But I won't claim that I do this. I cheat. I simply use "Adolph's".
Does that make me too American? 😀

@badradger said
i hate cereal apart from porridge oats, lucky for me her indoors is a trained chef so the scran in my Boro abode is superb, i dont like expensive wine like blue nun, tescos shiraz £4.25 a litre is more up my back alley.

Blue Nun is shyte liebfraumilch, surely that cannot be expensive!

@wolfgang59 said
Blue Nun is shyte liebfraumilch, surely that cannot be expensive!

I was joking not a fan of sweet white but really like tescos shiraz.

@pachman said
So i started cooking late in life but it seems i am a natural.
Chicks are ooing and ahhing over my chicken dinners or pork dinners (lots of sauce and veggies)

But... when it comes to red meat it can be a bit chewy 🤔

I love cooking but red meat is my problem.

Do i really need to pound the hammer into the red meat to soften it or can i soften it while cooking?

Yea get one of those metal hammer thingys with the sharp picks on them and beat your meat with that, should soften it up enough!

-VR

@pachman said
So i started cooking late in life but it seems i am a natural.
Chicks are ooing and ahhing over my chicken dinners or pork dinners (lots of sauce and veggies)

But... when it comes to red meat it can be a bit chewy 🤔

I love cooking but red meat is my problem.

Do i really need to pound the hammer into the red meat to soften it or can i soften it while cooking?

I know it's counterintuitive, but whatever you do don't beat the meat before cooking it, that will only make it harder.

@badradger said
I was joking not a fan of sweet white but really like tescos shiraz.

The cheaper the wine the worse the headache. Can get one after a sniff of Echo Falls 🥴