{"id":1642,"date":"2013-02-09T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2013-02-09T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:52:16","slug":"thawing-frozen-steaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/thawing-frozen-steaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thawing frozen steaks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s a question we get asked\u00a0frequently and we have always recommended thawing gradually in the refrigerator.\u00a0 But the <em>Stockman Grass Farmer<\/em> quotes the USDA as saying that&#8217;s best for roasts, but not necessary for\u00a0steaks.<\/p>\n<p>USDA researchers test-thawed more than 200 one-inch thick strip steaks&#8230;some in the refrigerator, some at room temperature in constantly circulating water, and some in a water bath at 102 degrees.\u00a0 The conclusion was that the last, the warm water bath, was the most efficient and the steaks leaked less juice.\u00a0 There was no difference in tenderness.<\/p>\n<p>For roasts, however, room temperature thawing resulted in surface bacterial growth to occur before the center was fully thawed.\u00a0 Therefore, refrigerator thawing is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>We report&#8230;.you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s a question we get asked\u00a0frequently and we have always recommended thawing gradually in the refrigerator.\u00a0 But the Stockman Grass Farmer quotes the USDA as saying that&#8217;s best for roasts, but not necessary for\u00a0steaks. USDA researchers test-thawed more than 200 one-inch thick strip steaks&#8230;some in the refrigerator, some at room temperature in constantly circulating water, and some in a water bath at 102 degrees.\u00a0 The conclusion was that the last, the warm water bath, was the most efficient and the steaks leaked less juice.\u00a0 There was no difference in tenderness. For roasts, however, room temperature thawing resulted in surface bacterial growth to occur before the center was fully thawed.\u00a0 Therefore, refrigerator thawing is recommended. We report&#8230;.you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}