Quick defrosting pre-cooked steak.....???????

"sno" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing in
baggies....

When I want a steak usually do not want to wait... so have been using micro to defrost/heat....

The steaks are originally medium rare....but after going through microwave tend to cook to
much....

Am thinking that I want the steak to be around 150 F.......have tried putting baggie into heated
water....but did not work to well....took to long and still cooked.....

Does anyone have any ideas on how can defrost/heat and not cook.....fairly quickly.....

thank you for your help.......steve

Sounds like a recipe to ruin good meat. No offense but if fast is all you care about just buy TV
dinners. Good food takes a little time. WHy not buy thin (1/2"😉 rib eyes, freeze individual steaks
raw, then thaw and cook to order?

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sno said:

Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing in
baggies....

When I want a steak usually do not want to wait... so have been using micro to defrost/heat....

The steaks are originally medium rare....but after going through microwave tend to cook to much....

Am thinking that I want the steak to be around 150 F.......have tried putting baggie into heated
water....but did not work to well....took to long and still cooked.....

Does anyone have any ideas on how can defrost/heat and not cook.....fairly quickly.....

thank you for your help.......steve

You need to defrost it with some liquid. When I make roast beef, I put leftover slices in a plastic
container with enough gravy to cover them. That way I can defrost in the mocrowave without drying
out or scorching the meat.

If you don't have gravy, I think some beef stock will work. Plain water is probably a bad idea
because it would probably leech some flavour out of the meat.

BTW, I wouldn't call what you're getting there a steak. It's more like a slice of roast beef.
Normally a steak would be cooked (and nicely browned) *after* being cut.

sno said:

Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing in
baggies....

When I want a steak usually do not want to wait... so have been using micro to defrost/heat....

The steaks are originally medium rare....but after going through microwave tend to cook to
much....

Am thinking that I want the steak to be around 150 F.......have tried putting baggie into heated
water....but did not work to well....took to long and still cooked.....

Does anyone have any ideas on how can defrost/heat and not cook.....fairly quickly.....

thank you for your help.......steve

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sno said:

Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing

It's no wonder your single, anyone freezing USDA Prime beef is a moroon... like freezing
beluga caviar.

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in article [email hidden], sno at [email hidden] wrote on
12/21/03 6:54 PM:

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Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing in
baggies....

Why?????? What did that poor beef ever do to you?

Quoted message said:

When I want a steak usually do not want to wait... so have been using micro to defrost/heat....

Patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait. Some things are worth the wait.

Quoted message said:

The steaks are originally medium rare....but after going through microwave tend to cook to
much....

Am thinking that I want the steak to be around 150 F.......have tried putting baggie into heated
water....but did not work to well....took to long and still cooked.....

Does anyone have any ideas on how can defrost/heat and not cook.....fairly quickly.....

thank you for your help.......steve

It's simple. It can't be done.

When it comes to steak, you can have fast, or you can have Good. But as you've discovered, you can't
have both.

For a good compromise, you would be better off getting a George Foreman Grill at Walmart for $20 and
cooking your steaks as you go. Probably cheaper in the long run, won't take more than, say 5 minutes
plus a few minutes of pre-heating time for the grill...and you will have a much better end result
than trying to microwave pre-cooked roast beef.

The Foreman Grill will cook it quickly, and it will be tender, but it won't have the charred effect
you'd get over an open flame. But for a 5 minute steak, it is very good, and would most likely be
better than what you're doing now.

(PENMART01) said:

sno said:

Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing

It's no wonder your single, anyone freezing USDA Prime beef is a moroon... like freezing
beluga caviar.

Nobody said it was USDA Prime. Nobody makes a shrink-wrapped, precooked USDA Prime prime rib
roast anyway.

I can get these pre-cooked at my grocer, and they are indeed correctly labelled as a USDA Select
Prime Rib Roast.

Never mind Sheldon - He's just an ignorant idiot.

-sw

"sno" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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have tried putting baggie into heated water....but did not work to well....took to long and still
cooked.....

Hot water will cook the meat. If I need to defrost anything quickly i use cold water/lukewarm water.
But it still will take some time.

Aussie Lurker

Just wanted to thank everyone for their responses...

Even those that were critical were informative....

thank you......steve

sno said:

Am single, have been buying pre-cooked prime rib roasts, cutting up into steaks and freezing in
baggies....

When I want a steak usually do not want to wait... so have been using micro to defrost/heat....

The steaks are originally medium rare....but after going through microwave tend to cook to
much....

Am thinking that I want the steak to be around 150 F.......have tried putting baggie into heated
water....but did not work to well....took to long and still cooked.....

Does anyone have any ideas on how can defrost/heat and not cook.....fairly quickly.....

thank you for your help.......steve

sno said:

Does anyone have any ideas on how can defrost/heat and not cook.....fairly quickly.....

Use a lower power setting on your microwave and nuke the steak for small amounts of time, like 30
seconds, and keep repeating until the steak is reasonably thawed.