I miss oxtail. The stores around here have taken to selling one "knuckle" surrounded by ~2 inches of fat for some extraordinary price per pound. If one cut off all the fat, the meat would weigh half as much. Makes me so mad I refused to buy any.
Last Saturday was the farmers' market and a farmer listed oxtail on their offerings. I picked up the oxtail and peeled off a little of the covering paper so I could see the meat, i.e. how much fat was on the meat.
The farmer was offended that I was tearing the paper covering, and the bones looked primarily covered in meat (not fat) so I bought two of them wieghing about 2.4 lbs each.
It was frozen, so it's been sitting in the fridge. I just went to put the pieces in a sous vide bag, but the "knuckles" are not cut apart.
I've spent 20 minutes at it with only ONE successful cut. How do I find where to separate all the pieces of tail bone?
P.S. If I can't figure out how to separate the "knuckle" bones, can I sous vide cook 12" parts of the tail in a large plastic bag, then separate them when they're cooked?
