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[Jason Fisher]

I decided to dry age the standing rib roast I am cooking for Christmas. I bought it today and started my 4 day dry age process. All I did today was take the roast out of the packaging and wrap in flour sack towels. I wrapped it in two towels today and will change out the towels everyday until Thursday. So, here's the pics of day one.

This is actually Certified Angus Beef. This was the best quality I could find around here without being preseasoned.






Wrapped then put into the fridge.

More pics tomorrow!

[Jason Fisher]

Update!
Day 2
This is what it looked like still wrapped.


Looks like I will have to do some trimming before cooking.

[Jason Fisher]

Update!
Day 3

Getting nasty looking!


Notice the bones are more exposed on day 3.


More to come.

[STEVE madaule]

i have to cook two of these each 12 lbs what time do you think its gonna take at 225 deg

[Jason Fisher]

STEVE madaule, on Dec 24 2008, 09:35 AM, said:

i have to cook two of these each 12 lbs what time do you think its gonna take at 225 deg

From what I've read at 225* your looking around 30 minutes a pound. Thats for medium rare, pulled at 125* and rested.

[Robert Diaz]

Wow! I would probably love the taste of that roast. I think I would probably gag quite a bit, if I had to trim that. Good job.

[Sylvie Curry]

I like the idea. Aging concentrates the flavor. How are you storing it during the aging (temp, humidity or any special considerations)? I got one of the Costco prime rib roasts to cook tomorrow. It it continues to rain tomorrow, I'll probably just roast it in the oven. I saw Tyler Florence do one on FOODTV today coated with salt, garlic , olive oil, rosemary and pepper . Looked great. He cooked it at 375 for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

[Jason Fisher]

Sylvie Curry, on Dec 24 2008, 06:25 PM, said:

I like the idea. Aging concentrates the flavor. How are you storing it during the aging (temp, humidity or any special considerations)? I got one of the Costco prime rib roasts to cook tomorrow. It it continues to rain tomorrow, I'll probably just roast it in the oven. I saw Tyler Florence do one on FOODTV today coated with salt, garlic , olive oil, rosemary and pepper . Looked great. He cooked it at 375 for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

I'm just keeping it in the fridge at 40*. I don't have a humidity gauge.

[Jason Fisher]

Update!

Day 4

It's looking about the same, maybe a little funkier.




Tomorrows the day!

[Sylvie Curry]

I know it is going to come out great. Looking forward to the photos.

[Leonard Sanders]

You go Jason

It is Christmas morning and I am doing some custom smoking. One smoker is full of turkeys and the other is full of prime rib and hams. The prime rib would be a nice experiment if only I could taste each one. Customers have dropped off everything from $2.98 per pound from Winco ---all the way to $12.89 per pound from a local meat market---with a few Raley's Black Angus choice at $5.97 per pound.

I have been around cattle my whole life and I am still not convinced that you can take a bite out of a ribeye steak and tell me what breed cow that it came from. I think that the Black Angus Association just has a genius in charge of marketing.

[Ed Brown]

I have been aging a prime rib using the Jason plan and it looks just as funky. I'm bringing it up to room temp now. My string doesn't look as good as the pictures. It's a seven bone rascal which weighed 16#6oz and after aging since Sunday it's now 15# 9 oz. It goes on the smoker at noon. Good luck and Merry Christmas to all.

[Robert Diaz]

Good job everyone. I'm smoking three roasts now. Didn't dry age them, because I can't deal with "funky". Merry Christmas everyone!

[Jason Fisher]

Update!

Day 5

Here we go! Here's the final pic of the funk.


I trimmed off all the funk. By the way, it didn't smell funky, just looked funky.


Here it is all trimmed up, nice and bright white again.


Here's what I unded up using for flavor. Olive oil, freshly ground black pepper, Kosher salt, A full head of garlic, rosemary, oregano, sage and thyme. I pressed the garlic and minced the herbs.



Here's how the butcher cut the bones almost all the way off. Awesome way to add more flavor!


Here it is all put back together and rubbed with the goodness.


I used Royal Oak lump with just a few JD oak chips mixed in for smoke.


Here it is going onto the Egg at 11:00. I didn't let it sit in room temp as long as I'd like and the probe measured internal temp at 39* when it went on.


The Egg is set just under 300* dome temp right now. The internal temp is to 49* as of 11:52.
More to come later.

[Jason Fisher]

I almost forgot, I decided to use more of Alton Brown's technique and do a reverse sear on the roast. I am going to cook it on the Egg until the internal hits 115* then pull it off and rest in foil. We will then head to my parents house (2 miles away) and finish roasting it in their oven at 500* until the internal is 125* and a nice crust has formed. I also decided that I will cut the bones off before the final 500* roast. I haven't seen this done before, I figured this way I can get a better crust all the way around the roast. Then it will come back out and rest for 15-25 minutes before carving.

[Brian Kreisler]

Jason, gotta know how it came out?

[Jason Fisher]

Brian Kreisler, on Jan 7 2009, 11:28 AM, said:

Jason, gotta know how it came out?

Wow, I don't how I forgot to post it here. I was mirroring this post on the Brethren and I finished it up over there. Here it is.

Finale!

I ended up finishing it up on the Egg after all. It took three hours for it to go from 39* internal to 115* internal.


I then pulled it off and opened up the Egg to get it to 500*.


I cut the bones off and returned the roast to the now 500* degree Egg. I let it develop a crust while the internal rose to 124*. That only took about 12 minutes. I then pulled it off and loosely foiled it and ran over to my parents house. Here it is after a nice 20 minute rest.


It sliced up real nice.




Overall it came out great. It tasted good and was very beefy and tender. The oak wasn't overpowering and neither were the herbs. My only complaint was that it wasn't very uniform in doneness from the center out and also from left to right. There were only about 3 inches in the middle that were really what I consider medium-rare. I cooked it at 300* until it hit 115*. Then 500* to 124*. I would have cooked it closer to 275*, but it took longer to prep than I had planned. I think next time I will cook it closer to 225* and take my time. Either way, I believe it was worth the trouble and I will do it again!

Edited by Jason Fisher, 07 January 2009 - 01:43 PM.

[Alexa Fairbairn]

That is so cool to see the progress in photos from day to day, and the finished product. I am a big scaredy-cat about aging, and while the rot-in-progress has me cringing, the report on the final product has me intrigued. Clearly, I need a refrigerator that children don't open alldamndaylong so that I can try aging some beef!

[Jason Fisher]

Alexa Fairbairn, on Jan 7 2009, 03:44 PM, said:

Clearly, I need a refrigerator that children don't open alldamndaylong so that I can try aging some beef!

Yeah, I wouldn't have attempted this at my house at all! I used my parents fridge who were out of town the first two days.

[Brian Kreisler]

Jason, Thanks for all the pics and play by play on the roast. It looks like your on to something there. Looks good.