Slow cooker corned beef... (Carving question - Post 12)

[agnes!]

Went looking around on the Internet, there's a website that has reviews of the recipes and has comments from posters saying how they maybe altered the recipe and maybe rate the recipe, well I was looking at it...had found one recipe that looked promising for crockpot corned beef and now I can't find it. The website, I mean.

Help meeeeeeeeee. All I can seem to find is cooks.com and I thought that was it but these recpies don't have the comments!...

agnes!

 

[Christine]

Try recipezaar.com or allrecipes.com. I think I've seen that too on recipezaar.com

My favorite way for slow-cooker corned beef is to put it in, add about 1 inch of water and then COVER the top with pickling spice. I use way more than they give you in that little pack. It makes a difference.

 

[DMickey28]

Maybe allrecipes.com.

I cooked my corned beef in the crock pot last night. It didn't come with a spice packet and I forgot pickling spice at the store so I put it in the crock pot with a can of Guinness, a lot of peppercorns, a bunch of garlic cloves and a cup of brown sugar. I think I used too much peppercorn but DH loves pepper so it should be ok. Now it's cooling in the fridge and I will coat it with brown sugar later and brown it in the oven with the potatoes and carrots.

 

[npmommie]

I have never cooked a corned beef!!
mine is in the crock pot, it came with the spices, and I covered the whole thing with water.
Did I put too much water?

 

[Christine]

I have never cooked a corned beef!!
mine is in the crock pot, it came with the spices, and I covered the whole thing with water.
Did I put too much water?

No, you can't really do too much. It will get kind of "oily" and you would pour all the water off anyway. I use some of the cooking liquid to steam up my cabbage. The worst that will happen is that with a lot of water and only the small spice packet, it may not be as "flavored" or savory; however, it will be fine.

 

[agnes!]

It's allrecipes.com that I was trying to find...sooooooo frustrating, all that I kept on getting in my search was cooks.com and it doesn't display the feedback/comments for the recipes (at least that I could find).

Hey, Christine, I'll let you know how my corned beef turns out, I had to start it without that first recipe I liked in front of me from allrecipes, but I think it'll turn out ok...I did it from memory and looking at what I could find on cooks.com. DD is excited and kind of in awe, I've never made it before.

agnes!

 

[Christine]

It's allrecipes.com that I was trying to find...sooooooo frustrating, all that I kept on getting in my search was cooks.com and it doesn't display the feedback/comments for the recipes (at least that I could find).

Hey, Christine, I'll let you know how my corned beef turns out, I had to start it without that first recipe I liked in front of me from allrecipes, but I think it'll turn out ok...I did it from memory and looking at what I could find on cooks.com. DD is excited and kind of in awe, I've never made it before.

agnes!

I'm jealous. I *LOVE* corned beef; however, my kids and husband really dislike it so I don't make it. I had it every year when I lived with my parents, tried to do it in my own home, but heck if no one will eat it...

 

[MaumeeMom]

OP I'm sure your meal will be great. Corned beef is hard to mess up, I have mine in the crockpot right now and I didn't do anything special to it. I put carrots and onions on the bottom, then placed the meat on top and sprinkled it with the included spices. I just eyeballed the water to about half way up the pot. I'll use some of the water to cook the cabbage and potatoes closer to dinner time.

I'm off to make soda bread now. I love St. Patrick's Day food. Have a great one!

 

[agnes!]

OP I'm sure your meal will be great. Corned beef is hard to mess up, I have mine in the crockpot right now and I didn't do anything special to it. I put carrots and onions on the bottom, then placed the meat on top and sprinkled it with the included spices. I just eyeballed the water to about half way up the pot. I'll use some of the water to cook the cabbage and potatoes closer to dinner time.

I'm off to make soda bread now. I love St. Patrick's Day food. Have a great one!

Thanks for the encouraging words, I'm glad it's hard to mess up . BTW, how do you make soda-bread?

agnes!

 

[MaumeeMom]

Thanks for the encouraging words, I'm glad it's hard to mess up . BTW, how do you make soda-bread?

agnes!

I lost my favorite recipe when we moved a few years ago but this is the recipe that I am trying today:

Irresistible Irish Soda Bread

I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[agnes!]

If anyone's looking for a soda bread recipe, I found a lot of them over at allrecipes.com. The one I'm going to try has you bake the bread in a cast-iron skillet! Isn't that just too cool? Here's the link: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Irish-Soda-Bread-in-a-Skillet/Detail.aspx

agnes!

 

[agnes!]

Ok, this will sound oh-so-obvious... the directions for carving corned beef say to slice thinly across the grain. How do I tell what "across the grain" actually *is*? If I slice it wrong how can I tell, what does sliced-wrong corned beef look like?

agnes!

 

[DMickey28]

OP I'm sure your meal will be great. Corned beef is hard to mess up, I have mine in the crockpot right now and I didn't do anything special to it. I put carrots and onions on the bottom, then placed the meat on top and sprinkled it with the included spices. I just eyeballed the water to about half way up the pot. I'll use some of the water to cook the cabbage and potatoes closer to dinner time.

I'm off to make soda bread now. I love St. Patrick's Day food. Have a great one!

I managed to screw ours up!!! We just grilled some hot dogs.

 

[MaumeeMom]

I managed to screw ours up!!! We just grilled some hot dogs.

Oh no! What happened? Did it fall apart on you? I forgot to say that I let mine rest for a few minutes before serving it and that helps you when you got to slice it. I thought about it as I wrapped the meat up but I didn't have time to get on here to let you know. Sorry.

Well my soda bread was just okay. As I mixed it I realized that the recipe didn't call for raisins - how can you have soda bread without raisins?! I tossed a handful in there - hopefully the leftovers will be better tomorrow.

Again, I'm sorry your's didn't turn out - I hope you give it another try because crockpot corned beef really is delish.

 

[agnes!]

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my family is in AWE of my cooking skills!

They loved EVERYTHING, even the slightly gummy Irish soda bread (that is baked in an iron skillet). I did some substitutions. Instead of white enriched all-purpose I used organic unbleached flour with a small amount of whole wheat, added some sugar, halved the amount of salt and added about a Tablespoon of minced fresh rosemary that had been warmed in some warm butter.

We had corned beef (that I figured out how to slice against the grain ), sauteed cabbage, potatoes, carrots/onions (cooked with the corned beef) and that home-made Irish soda bread! It was all really good. I cooked the potatoes and cabbage separately from the corned beef, I thought it might be nice to have some sides that didn't taste of the corned beef spices.

I'm so happy it all turned out I could almost cry.

agnes!

 

[disykat]

I aced it too - this is a first for me! Everything is usually kind of oversalty and disappointing, but it was perfect!

I also cooked everything separately. I slow roasted the meat (wrapped in foil), roasted the potatoes, sauted the cabbage, and steamed the carrots and glazed them with butter and brown sugar. I also left the pickling spices off the meat altogether and just rubbed it with mustard, horseradish, garlic and lots of pepper.

My child who doesn't care for meat liked his meat, my child that doesn't like cabbage liked the cabbage. I'm happy.

 

[MaumeeMom]

PARTIAL

They loved EVERYTHING, ...

I'm so happy it all turned out I could almost cry.

agnes!

I aced it too - this is a first for me! Everything is usually kind of oversalty and disappointing, but it was perfect!

...I'm happy.

Yay! Congrats! I'm glad you meals turned out - Jiggs dinners are a favorite of mine.

 

[DMRick]

Our daughter and her family came for our corned beef diner today and we skyped our son and his family in Ireland (luckily they are only 4 hours ahead of us right now, since our early time change) and I asked how his corned beef turned out, and he said they had roast beef. In Ireland! Just seems wrong LOL.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Not sure if mentioned in earlier posts....

A little 'secret' we learned years ago...cook the corned beef the day before your meal. Take out of whatever you cooked it in, let it cool for a bit. Wrap it in foil. Place several bricks (wrapped in foil) on top of the meat and place in refrigerator, or if cold enough, in garage, enclosed unheated porch, etc. Let cool down over night. As it chills, the meat will compress and lose much of its stringiness. Next day, before meal time, unwrap, slice cold, and reheat in a cooking pan, ideally in some of the saved juice from the cabbage cooking. Slicing it cold makes slicing a charm, no falling apart, no stringiness.

Enjoy.

 

[agnes!]

Not sure if mentioned in earlier posts....

A little 'secret' we learned years ago...cook the corned beef the day before your meal. Take out of whatever you cooked it in, let it cool for a bit. Wrap it in foil. Place several bricks (wrapped in foil) on top of the meat and place in refrigerator, or if cold enough, in garage, enclosed unheated porch, etc. Let cool down over night. As it chills, the meat will compress and loose much of its stringiness. Next day, before meal time, unwrap, slice cold, and reheat in a cooking pan, ideally in some of the saved juice from the cabbage cooking. Slicing it cold makes slicing a charm, no falling apart, no stringiness.

Enjoy.

Thanks for the hint, Dan... I'm sitting here chuckling over how in the world someone thought of putting this sequence all together...makes sense though.


And congrats to you disykat! Everyone liked what they usually don't like? That is quite an accomplishment...I might have to try the "disykat way" of making corned beef, sounds good!

agnes!