The Secret Ingredient That Makes Cheap MEAT Melt-in-Your-Mouth Tender (The Old FARM Way)

Find All my recipes in one place! Otis Granger Cook Book: https://otisgranger.com/ There's a gallon jug in the pantry of almost every farmhouse I clear — glass, a cork, a paper label gone soft, always about a third full of cider vinegar. The family says, oh, she made pickles. That's not why the jug was always a third full. My mother never bought a ribeye in her life. She bought round steak because it was the cheapest thing in the case, arm roast because nobody wanted the front end, pork steak off the shoulder, and she cooked the hen when it got too old to lay. Every one of those is tough. Every one came to the table so tender you cut it with the side of a fork — and she did it with what was already on the shelf. I'm Otis. Forty years of barns and estate auctions across the Midwest, and the kitchen is the last room I clear. In this one: why the cheap cuts are tough (and why that's not the enemy) — the salt, the night before, and what it's actually doing to the meat — the jar she made once and shook on everything for forty years (and the honest truth: only the salt in it tenderizes) — the milk soak for pork and the old hen — low, wet, and covered — the flour that makes its own gravy — the rest and the knife — and the eighth piece: what was in the jug, and the crock in the icebox I have never once seen in a modern kitchen. One part cider vinegar, two parts water, a sliced onion, a spoon of salt. A day for round steak, two for an arm roast or an old hen. That's the farm trick — and it's where the Sunday sauerbraten came from. Honest, said plainly in the video: the papaya powder, pineapple, kiwi and baking soda all work and work fast — my mother didn't use them and I won't pretend she did. Don't over-marinate. Icebox the whole time. And keep the jug away from the good cuts — it's for the meat that needs it. What did your mother put the tough meat in — vinegar, milk, something else? And what cut was it? Tell me, and tell me her name. I read every one.