I always like to buy in bulk. If you seen my channel before you know I cook a lot
of steaks. There's nothing better than beef, at the same time it is important
to learn to preserve it. I want to know how many times it is ok to freeze a
steak before losing its quality. To keep this experiment consistent I'm using
this beautiful prime ribeye loin and I got it from the Revier Cattle Company.
when buying steaks if you want to save money I always recommend buying in bulk.
Cut out your own steaks and save big time, by processing your own steak you
will always save more. I like to cut my steaks at one and a half inches thick.
After cutting them open this is what they look like.
As you can see this is a true prime steak the marbling is just incredible
and it is exactly what you're looking for on a prime steak. Now you have three
options with this steak, you can freeze it as is,
you can super trim it and you can regular trim it. Let me show it to you.
First is a regular trim, we start off by cutting a little bit of the fat without
removing all of it. Regular trim I recommend for steaks that
are not prime since prime steaks have a lot of intramuscular fat a regular trim
is better fit for choice steak, but this is what a regular trim looks like. For
the Super trim and my recommended method for prime steaks you trim all the
external fat out. I know some of you are thinking oh my god don't cut the fat out
Guga, but you have to understand a prime steak already has enough intramuscular
fat in it. Yes fat is flavor but you want a well-balanced steak, there is no need
for the extra fat. So for prime steaks I like to do a super trim check it out.
Now that I have all these beautiful prime steaks super trimmed I am going to
choose the best ones for our experiment and this is how it's gonna go down. I
will be freezing all four steaks and then I will be defrosting them. If you
have not seen my video about how to defrost a steak I recommend you watching
it. The best method to defrost the steak is to put it in the refrigerator and let
it defrost overnight slowly. If you rush the process with water or leaving it
outside of the refrigerator you drop the quality tremendously. So to give this
steaks the best possible results I am defrosting all of them in the
refrigerator slowly. I will freeze the first steak one time, the next one two
times, the third one three and the last steak will be frozen four times. To make this a
real life experiment it took me six weeks to complete this video every steak
now was unfrozen was kept in the refrigerator for at least three days. And
when I refreeze them they were frozen for about a week, making this a real-life
experiment. After they have all been frozen for their requirement time this
is what they look like.
As you can see this steak was only defrosted once and this one two times
we have the one that was defrosted three times
and lastly four times. And to my surprise their colors look very similar to each
other. Because they were defrosted properly and frozen again slowly
I cannot tell any difference just by looking at them. After removing the
steaks from the bag and I picked up the very first one and it feels nice no foul
smell whatsoever still feel tender as perfect as it can be. The second steak
does not feel any different as you can see the cap is releasing a little, but
besides that, tenderness and feel on my hand is exactly the same as the first
steak, when smelling it it smells absolutely fine just like the first
steak no difference at all. Now when I pick up steak number three oh there's a
difference, it is much more tender softer I don't know if it's coming through the
camera, but the fibers are splitting apart and when squeezing it through my
hands I can f eel that it's a lot softer than any other steak when I smell it
smells and it also smells just fine. And this is the fourth steak oh there's a
big difference this one is almost disintegrating as you can see the fibers
are splitting apart completely and if I don't handle with care' it will split
open and when I smell it it's it smells it smells fine no foul
smell or a different smell whatsoever. But now that we have these steaks ready
it is time to season them for the seasoning I use salt freshly ground
black pepper and garlic powder.
To ensure my salt will penetrate deeply into the meat, I'm letting them rest
for an hour. But most importantly to make sure every steak is cooked to the exact
same temperature I am using my wireless thermometer. After one hour you can see
there is no longer any particles of salt on top of the steaks.
This is a sign that the salt penetrated deeply into the meat and it will provide
the best steak experience. For today's cook I'm going to be using the direct
sear method what that means is that I will be searing the steaks first, once
they are perfectly seared I'll be using my wireless thermometer and cook them in
indirect heat until I reach an internal temperature of 135 degrees Fahrenheit.
But now that we have everything ready I say it is enough talking and it is time
to cook them. So let's do it!
Alright everybody we have our beautiful steaks here. I have my nephew Angel and
Chris his friend. If you guys don't know this is Chris. All right boys, you hungry?
Cuz we gotta eat today. Yes sir. Lets go bro! All right we have a big experiment.
I was gonna do this one only for me guys because
I really want to find out because you know a lot of times I put a lot of steaks out
and I don't have time to cook all of them well actually I can't tell much about the
experiments I'm talking too much, are you ready to try it?
I was trying to pick it up, I was trying to see what you were talking about. Yea, yea, yea!
ok, enough talking we're gonna try it. Big experiment I really need your opinion on
taste how they taste the texture tell me as much as you can about these steaks.
A B C and D. All right ready to go? Let's dig in. First one. Cheers everybody. Cheers.
Damn! That's a nice steak!
You're alright Angel? You are going for seconds. Oh no.
Incredible steak, amazing steak by the
way all of these are prime steak.
So they should be all amazing.Oh my god I ate half Chris's done.
You didn't even cut it Chris. Alright, tenderness... Yes? Super tender the outside has like a
charcoaly flavor. Yeah. I was like perfect to the taste. Mm-hmm it's important. It's
important? It's important. It's crucial. There you go.
All right that was great. Are we ready to try the second one? Let's go man. All right let's dig
in. I'm excited to find out, Second one cheers! Cheers.
Still really good. Oh that's nice. I'm liking it.
Mmmm. I like this experiment. I like this experiment a lot.
Definitely.
So nice. I'm not quite sure if I can tell any difference. You Angel? Is there a
difference? Um um. Chris talk to me. Woa woa calm down Chris!
I know your hungry Chris, we gotta... Im going for seconds. You are going to try it again. I will try it again.
What about tenderness flavor, any difference for you?
Almost the same. Almost the same. You Angel? I can't spot a difference to be honest. If there
is a difference everybody honestly I cannot tell the difference. No, it's very
small if there is if there is a difference. It's just so minor that we
can't really tell. It is wonderful. Yeah like what's it about anyway? You gonna find
out in a little bit yeah. I don't want to tell you because I want you guys to
really tell me the truth here because I need to know, I need to know this one for
me. I want to know what I'm looking for man. Don't worry.
You just enjoy the steak and if it's bad you tell me. We're like guinea pigs. I know
exactly. Dang. I rather be guinea pig like this any time. Yeah. Alright. Good guinea
pig. I know. Let's go for the third one. Go for it. Round three. Fight!
Alright third one. Cheers! Cheers.
Okay. A little less flavor on this one I think. Less flavorful. A little less flavor.. Still good. And
less power. You get me? Not enough strength? Not enough strength of the flavor on this one.
But it's still good though? Yeah it's still very good. It is good. What about you?
Is still, tenderness is still the same. Damn Chris!
Flavor-wise it has a little bit less flavor in the last two. Less
flavor, I also felt that is not that tender it seems like it's a little
tougher. Or did you guys feel that at all or no? I didn't feel that. Yeah very small, a small
difference. Not a huge difference, but the flavor is less and the amount of juiciness I think it's a
little bit less as well. No I think juicy, juiciness I think is almost the same. Awesome what about you
how about juiciness Chris. Juiciness it was almost the same, it was similar. For me I... I have like an
aftertaste. Do you have an aftertaste in your mouth? I don't know
I just finished swallowing. Swallow a little bit... You gonna try again oh my God. Ha-ha
How would I find out? I think Chris just wants to get full Angel. Go for it
Do you have an aftertaste? I feel a little aftertaste on my mouth that it's
lingering everybody that it's not a bad aftertaste but there's something. You?
I'm not getting it. Not getting it? I just feel like I just had some steak. Okay
I'm not getting it. Okay that's just me that's awesome that's great to know.
Allright let's go for the last one guys. I just wanna know. I know you want to know I
know you want to know. Ready for the last one?
Cheers! Cheers.
Oh
This one's really different. Yeah.
Oh yeah still good it is not bad, but it is different.
Mmm yeah it's different. It's not I think it slowly been going like down and down.
It's going down the drain Angel? After the second one it just... It just went down? What happen there?
It went down like the fork. It went down like my fork. It is going down. Yeah after the second one its been on the
way down. Yeah. Slightly but let's be honest here,
Is it still a wonderful steak? Yeah. It's still a wonderful steak. It had
a different flavor too.It has a little different and it's like the aftertaste I
feel that after did you feel that aftertaste or is it just me? Pay
attention to your taste buds in the end there's an aftertaste that is not that
pleasant but it is not bad. It's like... What? Do you feel that or no?
I feel like there's a taste there that's different.
That is different? Just different for you. Yeah and I'd rather not have it. You rather not.
If you had to eat obviously you pick this one. One of these two. One of these two and these two. Yeah
These two here, there's not much difference between them. Agree? Yeah. Kind of almost the same
and then it starts going down a little bit. Yeah you see the decline in taste on the third one.
Yeah. This one here it really goes down. Less flavor, less juiciness
and for me at least there's a little aftertaste. Alright everybody so
these are the results we obviously prefer these two steaks they are a lot
better. There's not a lot of difference between them.
You agree with me? What happened Chris? I just tasted that one
again it's like an old meat after taste almost. Really? That's what I'm getting kind of like an old
meat. You Angel? Yeah now that I think about it that's a good description.
Its like a... You're late on it. I'm a little late bro.Your taste buds are messed up.
Why? Why are your taste buds messed up? All that pre-work out you been drinking. Too much pre-workout!
You see, you go to the gym too much. All right let's stay focus here. So this one kind
of tastes a little bit like old meat right it's like it's declining on
quality. Yeah. Even though these are prime steak the highest grade you can get
besides wagyu obviously it's still, I mean I enjoy the steaks. Yeah they're all good.
But if you put it one next to the other the quality starts going down. So you ready
to find out what it is? Yeah. I see you took the whole thing!
alright so here's what we got.
I'm a little bit hungry too man. I can tell, I can tell.
All steaks have been frozen. Frozen? Yes all of them are frozen this one was
One and going up. Right?
This one was frozen once, this one was frozen twice,
this one was frozen three times and four times. So that's why that's what happened
this is what the experiment is about soft frozen steaks. So here's the deal is
Is it all from the same cow? All from the same cow exactly because I sliced them all
from the same loin. It is definitely okay to freeze it once because you guys seen
it before. Freeze it twice still okay you guys agree? Yeah.
I can see they hungry these boys are hungry everybody, I want to get the good stuff, its
on my side. As soon as you start doing the third one the quality start dropping
quite a bit...Yes. And it's very noticeable. Yeah. It's still good though, it's still good to eat.
Don't get me wrong everybody still good
it's a prime steak I mean if I got the steak on the restaurant I'll be happy with it
cuz you know restaurant steak are let's
not talk much about that. But anyway that's the results I hope this was very
informative to you as it was to me, because a lot of times everybody I take
out some steaks I let it defrost and we don't get to cook them, right Angel.
Yeah sometimes we get busy. We get busy with this and that, sometimes Angier has to do
homework or it has to do something else. Me as well I get stuck in the office I
can't come and then the steak just stays there and instead of doing a video, Now I
know I can freeze them again second time will be just fine.
I think two times that's like the area you want not pass after. Yeah. Because
after that it'll go down like it's very different these two are very different
and then comparing this one to this one is it's like. It's a night and day it's like night and day.
If you go from here to here it's like night and day. I would say stick to one
time or two times, after that start red flag-in it. I honestly thought that if I
would have frozen the second time it would have just been garbage, like it would be
horrible. Yeah. I thought it was gonna be disgusting like terrible yeah but now
I know it's good. Two times is okay. Please do it right let me be very clear if
you freeze the steak and you're gonna defrost it you leave it outside of the
refrigerator and put in rather to defrost it quickly the quality drops
tremendously. I've already done that experiment okay but if you defrost it
nice and slow in the refrigerator and then refreeze it again nice and slow
it's good. Yea. And I didn't have that much effect like on the tenderness. Exactly
tenderness I think there yeah. Pretty equal. Maybe a little bit not noticeable.
Agree? We all agree? We agree everybody
This is the results I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you do enjoy
this video, make sure to give it a thumbs up. If you have defrosted a steak more
than three times four times and you had a different experience, let me know in
the comment below. I love to hear from you. If you guys are interested in
anything I use remember everything is always in the description down below.
Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one. Take care
everybody. Are you guys going to the gym next after this? I'm not gonna say anything. Yeah we are.
I already read your mind.
Why?
No, no, no
What was he gonna say?
no, nothing, nothing.
Because, every inch matters.