Thanks Undead World Heroes Survival for sponsoring this video. For today’s experiment, we’re going to be putting this to the test. Now I have no idea if it’s going to be good, bad, or ugly but most importantly; is it going to work? Does this tenderize meat? Ever since I started this channel I’ve been obsessed with making one dollar meat good.
And after trying so many different ways to tenderize meat one stands above them all, it is always the pineapple. You see pineapple has an enzyme called bromelain, that enzymes break down meat and if you’re not careful with it it can even disintegrate a whole steak. Yeah, I’ve already done that experiment. And the funny thing about this right here is if you check the ingredients take a look, bromelain. So, the big question is, is it going to work?
Probably. But will it modify the flavor of the steak? Well, we’re going to find out right now and let you know. And the first thing we’re going to need is meat.
This is an eye round it is inexpensive, extremely flavorful, but most importantly it’s tough, real tough.
And it has always been my go-to because if I can make this one tender the flavor is already phenomenal. As you can see these are beautiful steaks, but it’s almost the same thing as chewing on shoe leather, but hey it’s perfect for our experiment. Talking about that check out the directions. Just before cooking moisture in the surface with water, sprinkle the tenderizer evenly over the meat, do not add salt, pierce the meat with fork at half-inch intervals, cook immediately. Now hold on one second, this seems like cheating because by piercing the meat I’m already tenderizing it but hey let’s follow the directions.
As you can see once I was done this is what it looks like. And since I had two stakes, I did the same exact thing with the other one, but I did not pierce it.
Remember we want the tenderizer to work not the piercing. And to make sure that this is really good I put it against our running champion and I’m talking about the pineapple. All of the enzymes needed to make it tender is there and it is a hundred percent natural, none of that artificial stuff.
But now that I got the steaks ready the only thing left to do is to let them rest on my refrigerator for one hour. That was perfect because it allows me time to go ahead and make an awesome side dish. And these are some family style loaded potatoes they are my favorite. To make them it’s super easy. First thing to do is to sprinkle a little bit of olive oil, mix it well to make sure every single one of them is coated, then season them individually with only salt and pepper nothing else.
As you can see I was quite generous with it. Potato needs seasoning so make sure you add plenty of it.
Once that was done I threw them in the oven at 350 degrees fahrenheit for one hour. As they were baking it was perfect because it allows me time to go ahead and jump to the next topping. You cannot make loaded potatoes without bacon, just cook them until they are nice and crispy and always reserve the bacon fat.
Never throw this away, keep it on a nice jar and use in many recipes. It is like gold! As you can see once I was done my bacon was perfectly cooked; nice and crispy and nothing is burned. And by that time my potatoes were also ready, they even get a nice crispy skin on the top. Now I just diced them all up in small cubes.
I was looking for them to be about 1 inch thick. We want them to have a nice rustic look just like this, as the next thing to do is to melt up some butter, followed by a little bit of garlic paste, let it fully melt and incorporate together because that’s it. All there’s left to do now is to assemble it. First all of those beautiful potatoes we just baked, followed by sour cream, we can’t forget about the bacon, the garlic butter we just made and shredded provolone cheese. Now repeat the process until you run out of all of the ingredients because once you have done so the only thing you have to do is stick it in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Leave it there until the cheese is fully melted because once it’s ready take a look.
Add in some green onions right on top and your home styled loaded baked potato is done. Now that will feed a crowd, and it is absolutely delicious, highly recommend for eating it with steaks. That was perfect because by this time my steaks were ready. I first took out the pineapple one, washed it off with water and now it was ready.
And here’s what they look like side by side, but the most important thing is how do they feel? I can tell you immediately look at this. The pineapple one is completely disintegrating, now the one that I pierced with the fork and sprinkle the tenderizer that one feels tender. But the one that was not pierced that one is not tender at all, it almost feels like a fresh steak. So now I’m a little skeptical.
And since I have more steaks available I’m following the instructions a hundred percent. This one I’m not gonna let it sit for an hour that way we’re really gonna know if this thing works or not.
However the pineapple one I must season it with salt but all of the other ones I just added freshly ground black pepper and garlic powder. Remember the instructions said no salt. As now the only thing left to do is to cook them up.
Because they are one-dollar steak I’ll definitely be basting them with butter and first I’ll be putting a nice sear, then cooking them until they reach 135 degrees Fahrenheit internally. So now I say it is enough talking and it is time to cook them. So, let’s do it! [rock music] Before moving forward I want to thank today’s sponsor Undead World Hero Survival. Undead World Hero Survival is a free-to-play RPG set in a zombie apocalypse.
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-Since there’s so many I’m assuming that there’s one with pineapple.
-Yes! At least your dinner is covered because there is one with pineapple okay, if everything else fails. As a matter of fact, look I have it in my pocket it’s all about this, the tenderizing meat experiment everybody.
-Oh, you got the bromelain. -Bromelain there you go.
-Pineapple. -They specifically said there, don’t put any salt so I didn’t. Enough talking! So we got a lot of experiments to go, a lot of steaks to try, let’s do this. All right.
-Wha’s first? -Let’s go with this one right here. All right, smells amazing, that’s one of the things with eye round it is a fantastic tasting steak, we can give it up yeah. Tasting tastes good.Oh what happened?
You’re putting steak perfume in your face. -I had to smell it for real bro. -All right first one. Cheers everybody! -Cheers. -Exactly what you would expect from a one-dollar steak, eye round.
What do you think Angel? -Hold on I’m still chewing. -Nothing else needs to be said. All right let’s go with this one right here.
So here’s the deal I think you’re gonna recognize this one right away, so let’s just go ahead and try it. Cheers everybody. -Cheers. -Oh come on! Oh you could tell though it has that dust in it.
-Which one is it? -It’s pineapple. -Yes here’s the thing with pineapple everybody, because it’s soaked in pineapple.. What happened?
-I bit myself. -It’s so soft you beat your mouth? Are you all right bro? -My god the thing about the pineapple is it has a great taste but it does do something to the crust. -It’s wet crust so you don’t get a nice caramelization unless you overcook the steak and that’s the last thing we want.
By the way they were all cooked to 135 degrees Fahrenheit. All right let’s go for this one. Let’s see how it cuts Angel, one slice. All right let’s see this one right here cheers everybody. I can tell you immediately that is missing salt.
-Don’t like it. -Don’t like it? -It has an off taste. -I don’t know if it tastes bad, but it just I don’t yeah no. Not for you?
-Not that tender.
-Not that tender? -Not tender enough. -Hey it’s the bromelain bro it’s not, it listen if you are asking if the pineapple does a better job, yes. -It has a flavor I don’t like and the only way I can describe it is when you like have it in your mouth it feels like, it feels like.
-That’s a good description.I mean what else do you have to say? -It feels like when you have to exhale the air. -So here’s the deal, this one right here that we just tried it says to put the meat tenderizer but then you’re supposed to hit it with the fork and I didn’t hit it with the fork. So this one I did it as intended, let’s see if it’s more tender.
All right let’s find out cheers everybody. Oh. -Yeah like that is softer, yeah.
-I don’t know if you can tell by my face everybody I’m not a fan. Hey we got a side dish to clean it up -Aleluya -Let’s try the side dish now.
Cheers everybody. -Cheers. -Oh yeah that cleaned that up beautifully. -This is gold. -Very nice, highly recommend.
-I guess we gotta continue. -Here’s the deal this one I cook it exactly like the directions, maybe the directions is right. -As intended. -Exactly. All right let’s try it, let’s see if it’s still as nasty as the other one.
Cheers everybody. -It is very tender. -You should follow the directions everybody. It is much more tender and doesn’t taste that bad now it’s just missing salt. It does?
But it’s missing salt you’re missing the salt that’s what it is bro.
You’re missing the salt. You know what I’m gonna get some salt hold up. -It’s not that bad Angel. It is that bad, it’s actually a hundred percent that bad.
-It definitely needs salt so I don’t know why the instruction says no salt. But let’s try it all right, let’s find out now as intended with a little bit of salt. Cheers! -I’m still not rocking with it bro. -I’ll tell you one thing, for me at least in my opinion the pineapple does a better job but this one here if you use it as intended it’s okay.
I think this is a great application for like stir fry and other things because you have a sauce and it goes along with it. As a regular steak I wouldn’t recommend it. Definitely stick with the pineapple is still the best way to tenderize steak. Anyway, guys these are the results I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did enjoy it make sure you give it a thumbs up.
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