It's About Time
After about a month of waiting, we finally received (on the SAME day, within an hour of each other) our new toaster oven and our grass-fed beef. Exciting!
The toaster oven is about the size of our old microwave, so it fits just right in the same spot. It's very nice-looking, is quite large, and has settings for broil, keep warm, defrost, rotisserie, and dehydrate. We haven't tried it out yet (a number of pieces to wash first). My husband (the engineer) examined it closely, and only found one problem: the door doesn't close quite as closely as we had hoped. One of the ideas behind the toaster oven is to have something that won't heat up the kitchen in the summer like the big oven does. We'll see.
We tried out some hamburgers (on the grill) from our new beef last night. My husband noticed right away that the fat was different - it didn't cause the grill to flame up like the corn-fed beef does. We thought that the meat tasted the same, but there is no fat "gritty" aftertaste like you get sometimes with corn-fed beef. Also, the hamburgers were slightly less tender. It will be interesting to see what the other cuts are like. We'll have plenty of chances to find out. We have a freezer full (and even a little more than that)! What is best is that we know it is so much better for us - we're getting even more of those essential omega-3's. Now if we can just get our young chickens to start laying eggs! Maybe it won't be long...
The toaster oven is about the size of our old microwave, so it fits just right in the same spot. It's very nice-looking, is quite large, and has settings for broil, keep warm, defrost, rotisserie, and dehydrate. We haven't tried it out yet (a number of pieces to wash first). My husband (the engineer) examined it closely, and only found one problem: the door doesn't close quite as closely as we had hoped. One of the ideas behind the toaster oven is to have something that won't heat up the kitchen in the summer like the big oven does. We'll see.
We tried out some hamburgers (on the grill) from our new beef last night. My husband noticed right away that the fat was different - it didn't cause the grill to flame up like the corn-fed beef does. We thought that the meat tasted the same, but there is no fat "gritty" aftertaste like you get sometimes with corn-fed beef. Also, the hamburgers were slightly less tender. It will be interesting to see what the other cuts are like. We'll have plenty of chances to find out. We have a freezer full (and even a little more than that)! What is best is that we know it is so much better for us - we're getting even more of those essential omega-3's. Now if we can just get our young chickens to start laying eggs! Maybe it won't be long...
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