Tough meat

[Haystack]

You want the meat tender? Dissolve some baking soda in water. How much soda depends on how much meat. About a teaspoon full of soda and a cup of water for every 12 ounces. Soak the meat in it for 15 minutes. Then rinse thoroughly!

After that, marinate and season to your liking.

 

[ATN2]

Actually, slow cooking is not the way to cook skirt steak of flank steak for fajitas

Marinade will help and you can tenderize them with a mechanical means

But you really want to sear them on very high heat and only to a medium rare doneness

And the absolute critical thing is that you must cut across the grain very thin and on the diagonal or it will be tough as shoe leather for sure

 

[baboon]

Flanks are great steaks and while they can be used as fajitas are far superior to skirts.

I’d buy cheek meat over skirts every time.

I would rather buy a chuck roast if I really wanted beef tacos.

 

[GeorgeS]

Cut meat ACROSS the grain.
Marinate.
Cook meat quickly in a hot pan.
Serve.

 

[cycleguy2300]

Wife cooked up some fajita meat and it's too tough. Do good on the bottom of shoes, rekin boiling it might soften it up?

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[pronstar]

You want the meat tender? Dissolve some baking soda in water. How much soda depends on how much meat. About a teaspoon full of soda and a cup of water for every 12 ounces. Soak the meat in it for 15 minutes. Then rinse thoroughly!

After that, marinate and season to your liking.

A similar process called “velvet beef” is used in Chinese cooking.

You basically put baking soda all over the meat, refrigerate for 30 mins, rinse the baking soda off and cook.

Sometimes corn starch is used instead, but I haven’t tried it yet.

Tenderise beef for stir fries (Velveting Beef)

This is how to tenderise beef with baking soda, Chinese "velveting beef". Easy, highly effective way to make economincal beef very tender in stir fries.

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Sous Vide immersion cooking is another great way to make any cut of meat super tender.


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[ZX9RCAM]

Don't forget, the meat has already been cooked.

 

[billtool]

Don't forget, the meat has already been cooked.

Oh- that’s right. You’re screwed then. Cut it up into really really small pieces, eat, and do it differently next time.

 

[Sasquatch]

Don't forget, the meat has already been cooked.

In that case, give it to the dog, or the neighbor's dog, or just donate it to the first sign holding homeless dude you see...

 

[baboon]

Oh- that’s right. You’re screwed then. Cut it up into really really small pieces, eat, and do it differently next time.

Cut it up add beef stock & simmer it until the liquid cooks off goes a long way.