St Patrick's day II

[ChuckO]

My Italian bride has made the St. Patrick's day dinner for the 38 years we've been together, and it appears there's a reason for that. My SPD cook didn't even come close to her SPD Corn Beef Cabbage in the crock pot.

Costco Corn Beef

The base (taters, carrots & onion)

The Corn Beef

Jealous Devil charcoal (this time I made sure there was enough lit charcoal)

2:30PM time to cook

Oops, she's done and no cabbage, and it's not even 2 hours into the cook, doh!

There's the cabbage

Off the grill, total time 2 hours for the corn beef and veggies, the cabbage on saw a half hour on the grill

My plate

Observations: Costco's Corn beef is way too salty. I rinsed it good, and leached it twice for 15 minutes each, and after two slices, my arteries likely are shut tight, hopefully I see tomorrow. The cabbage was good, even under cooked, maybe that's a good thing? The veggies under the corn beef were fantastic, I'm sure the PBR bath helped greatly. I don't see me buying Costco Corn Beef in the future, it's rare when Costco has a miss, but their corn beef is a huge miss

Analysis: The bride of 36+ years has Saint Patrick Day duty, I don't stand a chance

 

[James N]

Well it looks good anyway Chuck.... Some things are better off left to the wife's lol

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Great looking cook Chuck. Very nice pictures too. I used Shenson Corned Beef for years and never had a problem with it. Then I found SRF. As we only seem to have CBC once a year, I bite the bullet and spend the extra money. It's worth it. Yeah, the cabbage can be tricky. I used to lay mine on top like that for the last half hour or so and it never seemed to get the taste I liked or absorb more of the juices. I really buried it in the juices this year and that did the trick. Doesn't make for beautiful finished pictures like yours though. Could barely see the cabbage in the photos (mine), at least this year.
Looks like you got the JD just about right. Saw your note about the Giants. It's indeed a blow to lose Bum like that. What bad luck. Samardzija seems to be a slow starter anyway and we can probably absorb his delay. Hope those rook picthers can bust out and hold down the fort for a couple of months. We'll see, soon.

 

[Rich Dahl]

Being on a salt restricted diet I can see that 46% of the recommended sodium is a real salt bomb. Barb is the CB cooker here and we do use Costco CB but it's the Bill Bailey brand which is 23% sodium. Barb does it the old fashion way simmers it in a stock pot of water for about 5 hours which gets a lot of the salt out of it. I'm super sensitive to salt and doing it the way she does it's super tender and has great CB flavor and not salty at all.
Anyway it's a good looking dinner you did along with some great pictures.

 

[Barb D]

Like Rich said be get Costco CB with the brand is Bill Bailey and its great. Your dinner plate looks fantastic anyway.

 

[Len Dennis]

It's unfortunate it was still too salty but boy, it sure looked good

 

[Robert-R]

That corned beef sure is pretty. Too bad about it being super salty. Your plate looks delish.

Have the yardbirds dined upon cb?

 

[russ olin]

Heck of a cook. All looks guud from here.
Looks too like you got plenty of heat from the Devil this time.

 

[ChuckO]

Jealous Devil charcoal (this time I made sure there was enough lit charcoal)

I have six cooks on this charcoal now. All I do is snuff out the charcoal after each cook, I then pick it up put it in a chimney, relight it on my side burner of Genny. I'm still using it, and if I had to guess, I have several more cooks on this before I have to go to the bag. This bag could last a long long long time if I can get 10 or more cooks out of it