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Comment: "A chewy, smoky exterior and a actually glorious flavour - corned beef like never before". Dairy farmer Craig Hickman reckons he has a winning recipe to redeem this much maligned reduce of meat.

Is there a minimize of meat more polarising than corned silverside?

Whenever I tweet about corned beef, and to be honest I tweet about it rather a lot, I'm greeted with either nods of approval or disturbingly graphic approximations of individuals retching.

There doesn't seem to be a lot center ground.

Some folks do not just like the odor, others find it too bland or too salty, and the detractors are universal in their disapproval of "boiled meat".

If you're fortunate enough to occasionally fill your freezer with a whole cattle beast, you will be aware of the struggle of utilizing the least-favoured cuts.

For some it is schnitzel and for others it is stewing steak, however in my household it's all the time been corned beef, presumably as a result of I'm the only one who will eat it.

Even I must admit that corned beef gets a bit boring after you've cooked your sixth or seventh for the yr and there's still more sitting within the freezer. I swear my butcher generally provides me different people's just to mess with me.

In order to liven things up, I began experimenting, adding chilli powder to the recipe for a bit of zing, substituting jam for the sugar part in a quest for fruitiness, even including whole oranges to the crock pot when I thought no one was looking.

My biggest corned beef breakthrough came when, after a celebration, we had a surplus of wine cluttering up the pantry. What the hell, I believed, as I tipped a whole bottle of sauvignon blanc into the crock pot, thus doing my bit to conserve water.

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The end result was wonderful: rich, tender and fruity. If you're considering of giving it a go, I extremely suggest making an attempt it with a Cabernet sauvignon. I tweeted my discovery and Twitter was soon abuzz with individuals experimenting with completely different wines; thank goodness for the $7 clear skin!

First, build your smoker

All these had been merely variations on the same boiled beef theme and i wished to attempt one thing really totally different, so the obvious answer was to construct myself a smoker.

Most smoking recipes you discover on the web are American, and that i soon discovered that corned beef in America is made from the brisket, not silverside, however I've by no means been one to let particulars like that get in my way.

Through Twitter I additionally realized that American recipes calling for the usage of chilli powder truly imply a chilli seasoning combine; this is not something you wish to be taught through trial and error!

The recipe itself is lifeless simple.

First, construct your smoker. Then defrost and soak your corned silverside in water for two hours.

Mix collectively two tablespoons of floor black peppercorns, half a tablespoon of ground coriander seeds, half a tablespoon of onion powder, one teaspoon of dried thyme, one teaspoon of paprika and one teaspoon of garlic powder.

Remove the beef from its bath and pat it dry. Cover the meat with the rub and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate in a single day. I smeared the meat with mild American mustard as a binder, but that's purely optionally available.

The subsequent morning enable the meat to come back up to room temperature as you fire up the smoker, I aimed for a temperature of a hundred and twenty degrees C. Keep in mind that smoking is inexact; my corned beef could be ready when the interior temperature hit 90 degrees, which on this case was about seven hours.

Once off the smoker, I wrapped it in foil and let it relaxation for an additional hour.

I couldn't resist making an attempt it sizzling and it was really glorious. The fats had rendered out, there was a chewy, smoky exterior - and wow, aren't coriander seeds a real spice revelation?