Preserving
Steaks and Bacon
For several years now, we've managed to have meat dinners
...both steaks and bacon.
For the steaks, buy either rib eye or a good rib steak (and cut
off the bone so there's nothing extra to carry, and you don't
have to dispose of the bone); take a J-cloth and soak it in
white vinegar; squeeze it until most of the liquid is gone but
it's still wet -- and wrap each individual steak in it. (When
held up, the wrapped steak should almost 'drip' vinegar, but not
quite).
Put several of these wrapped steaks in a Ziploc bag, and seal
it. Keep it deep in a pack and we've found this will keep the
steaks for several days; we pack them Thursday at home and have
them Sunday night for dinner.
I wouldn't leave your pack sitting in the direct sun to heat up,
but we've never had a problem. The steaks have a distinct odour
to them when taken out of the bag, but it never seems to hang
around after being barbecued.
I treat bacon the same -- buy a large 2-lb chunk from the
butcher, wrap it the same way, and we've gone from Thursday
night to Wednesday morning without any problem.
Wash the j-cloths well, and you've got them available for the
rest of the trip.
Enjoy.
John Barker
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