
Originally Posted by
zulu Delta 534
Do any of you blokes have Grandparents still with us? Ask them how to slow cook meat as they mastered the art years before temperature gauges etc. came into common usage. They use to put a bit of brown paper in the oven for a set time and from the resulting condition (charring etc) could tell to within a couple of degrees of the temp.
These little skills are being overlooked today and forgotten, (if we don't have a gauge to do the work for us today we are lost,) but there are ways of gauging oven temperature. Ask your Oldies.
When I was a kid no one in their right mind would kill a valuable lamb just to eat, it was worth a lot more when it got older, so we always ate mutton (or rabbit), and the oldies knew how to cook that on a wood fire oven (same principal as a Webber) so that it tasted better than the lamb we buy today. Slow and steady always wins the race when it comes to meat!
Regards
Glen
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