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Originally Posted by lowside67
Kind of a dick move to fail me for my post... when to season meat is a HIGHLY debated topic and while you are right that some avant-garde chefs are beginning to salt earlier, the conventional wisdom and the curriculum at the top culinary schools worldwide remains that salting is to be done right before cooking.
I found this to be an interesting and informative article:
The Juicy Secret to Seasoning Meat | Food & Wine
The consensus he came to was that for some meats like pork, seasoning a day ahead was a complete fail, while other meats like chicken and lamb, it produced superior results. FWIW he found the steak virtually identical regardless of when it was seasoned.
The real difference is that when you salt something 48 hours in advance, you are not really seasoning the meat with the same goals. Covering it in salt that early is much closer to brining than it is to seasoning... you end up brining it in its own released liquids rather than in a salt-water solution, but the results are the same, which is a great product.
It is also worth noting that which salt you use will produce a huge difference in end result. If somebody tries salting their meat 24 hours in advance using common table salt they are going to get a nasty mess for the simple reason that different types of salt have highly different moisture contents. Simple table salt has virtually no moisture so it will simply pull moisture out without imparting its own. On the other hand, a high quality coarse kosher salt has a lot of moisture in it so while it extracts moisture from the meat, it also imparts its own moisture.
Mark |
I failed you because you said it dries your meat out which is completely untrue in the context that you quoted the original poster. The article I linked to shows that it does only within a certain time period of which the original poster's actions did not fall into.
I also disagree with your point about bringing conventional wisdom into this. Take dieting for example - "conventional wisdom" was to eat 6 small meals a day or OMG's catabolism. Before IF was popular on these boards, people were failing me for recommending meal skipping. What's conventional now may not be conventional in the future.