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When I was a kid, my mom would use a meat tenderizer to make steaks tender.

We used to frequent a steakhouse years ago that told me they used meat tenderizers.

On most cooking shows I watch the cook pounds the meat with a mallet to make it tender.

How do you tenderize steaks?

Are there natural plants that tenderize meat?

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When I need to tenderize meat, I plan a meal the day before that requires pineapple.  I use a can of pineapple in a recipe, usually jerk chicken, and save the pineapple juice.  I then put the meat in a covered dish, add the pineapple juice and spices, and marinate in the fridge overnight.  Tender!

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Thank you, Angela

Pineapple sounds like a great solution.

I have to ask does the meat have a pineapple flavor after cooking?

I also read that tea will tenderize meat.

Has anyone tried a tea marinade?

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I also remember the meat tenderizer in the spice drawer growing up, but do not keep any myself. I occasionally marinate meat, but these days I have come to rely mostly on the cooking method to tenderize the meat.

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It has been decades since I have used a chemical or mechanical tenderizer.  

Of course, if I were to make the choice I would use the mechanical approach and give the cut of meat a good pounding.

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Yeah, that cooking method of pounding the meat.

I saw a cooking show wars where the cooking partner pounded the meat with a cast iron skillet until it was paper thin so that the meat would cook within the 30 min time limit which meant maybe 15 min for the meat to cook.

Has anyone tried velveting?

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Anne Miller wrote:Thank you, Angela

Pineapple sounds like a great solution.

I have to ask does the meat have a pineapple flavor after cooking?

I also read that tea will tenderize meat.

Has anyone tried a tea marinade?



Anne, the meat does not taste like pineapple after marinating in it.

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As I was growing up we would use something in a spice jar called “meat tenderizer.” I don’t recall what the ingredients were.

We’d also stab the cut of meat all around with a fork.

I had recently learned as well Indians will marinate chicken in yogurt to tenderize it. It works well!
 
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We have not had steak since I posted originally.

I took some steak out of the freezer last night to thaw. When thawed, I soaked the steaks in 1 teaspoon of baking soda aka bicarbonate of soda, and 1/2 cup of water.  It took 1 1/2 cups of water to cover the steaks and 3 teaspoons of soda.

The steaks were noticeably tender.

Like Vanessa suggested, I used to use the tenderizer found in the spice aisle.

I asked Mr. Google what was meat tenderizer made out of.  Among the other fillers, it is Bromelain. Which is an enzyme extract that comes from pineapple.  I thought it probably had msg so I wanted to find something else.

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