/meatmaster

Tracks prime rib for christmas

Primary LanguagePython

Meatmaster

Track the progress of cooking your prime rib roast

Run

start recording

./start <year>

graph results

gnuplot -e "year=<year>" ./meatgraph.gnuplot

Log

2022

2022 2022 2022

  • 18lb prime rib
  • 7 ribs
  • 2tsp salt per rib
  • salted/peppered and cut the ribs off 2022-12-23T11:00:00PST (no salt reserved)
  • garlic pierced into the bottom of the meat
  • Out of the fridge at 6:30AM (34F internal temp)
  • Traegar set to smoke at 6:30AM
  • Put in traegar at 7:15AM
  • Moved probe from side to top-middle near the end of the roast (start in the middle next time)
  • took roast out around 2:30PM
  • Let rest for about 40 minutes
  • There was very little drippings, made a gravy with 4 carrots, an onion, 3 celery stocks, 2 cubes of butter, 2 quarts of beef stock, and flour.
  • Seared in oven for ~5 mins
  • Plenty of leftovers, had french dips the next day
  • Scoring the fat didnt help the splitting
  • outside temp at 7:30AM 11F

2021

2021

  • 17 pound prime rib
  • 7 ribs
  • 2tsp salt per rib
  • roughly 1tsp pepper per rib
  • left to dry in fridge for 3 days before
  • salted two days before with half the salt
  • removed from fridge 2 hours before cooking
  • dded pepper and some salt immediately before cooking
  • removed ribs from roast before cooking
  • cooked full time in a traeger on "smoke" setting (170F-200F)
  • started at 8:30AM PST
  • took off at 2:39PM PST
  • rested for 45 mins
  • seared in 550F oven for 6 minutes
  • 12 people (+2 with leftovers)