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" > wrote in message ...
>
> 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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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:54:30 -0500, sno > wrote:

>
>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 wrote:
>
> 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

Toaster Oven.

Great item for a single person....

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sno wrote:
>
>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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On 22 Dec 2003 02:07:53 GMT, (PENMART01) wrote:

>sno wrote:
>>
>>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

in article , sno at wrote on
12/21/03 6:54 PM:

>
> 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?

> 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.

>
> 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.

"sno" > wrote in message ...
>
>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 wrote:
>
> 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 > wrote:

> 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.