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I don't think I've ever SVd a pork tenderloin...they are so tender to begin with. Pork loin is a different matter of course. Yes, longer times would be bad with this cut. Usually I pan sear and finish for 15 min at 350 or so. But if I were to SV I'd do 140 or a little less for an hour or 90min

Thanks. I knew it was bullshit marketing. The lies always get out in front of the truth

I agree. Much worse than a dirty martini and looks nothing like a negroni. Was negroni at least in quotes?

@Ann_T Beautiful, except I feel cheated out of the YP 😉

8 (eight) fries and 3 (three) tots

Yup. Try the ethnic markets for saner prices on neck and belly etc.

As @rotuts said. I like a little texture to my CB which I slice thin or fry as a hash. 36H is great. I also think I've got a better piece of meat than the ones they sell already cured that need papain. As an aside, I've seen the papain -treated ones turn into mush at 140 and 36 h.

Home corned beef 5 days with a dry rub and then SV at 140F for 36 hours. Pretty perfect!

What's with all that frost in the old freezer?

Apples and oranges, I think. Its barely legitimate to compare a cheesesteak with a roast pork. I could see comparing Katz's pastrami with Schwartz's MSM though.

You are right, this thread should live. DiNic vs John's. Two HUGE sandwiches. Both are great. I lean towards John's. Better ambiance in the shadow of I-95.

and panzanella and stuffing, for that matter. I'd say that a panade is something mixed into a ground meat dish so as to be homogenized. And everything else isn't. It may be a matter of ratios and of application.

Pastrami

Thinking about wrapping in bacon/lard for retaining moistness. I wonder how much it does for non-porous meats. I can imagine bacon fat would penetrate a meatloaf, but that would be harder for a solid piece of meat where the muscle is dense and not at all permeable. And we know that salt from a rub penetrates <1 cm per 24 hrs. Sous vide/Modernist Cuisine showed that time and temp are the main determinants of tenderness and that loss of water comes from fiber contraction at a set temp for that type of tissue. So maybe all the bacon does is prevent water loss and lower meat cooking temp via "wet bulb" mechanisms ( ie bacon wont reach >100C till all the water is out of it)?

I love John's Grill. Old school SF