With a beef roast, how do you make the meat fall apart tender?!


Question: This is a guaranteed winner an sooo easy. The night before heavily salt and pepper both sides of roast. Place into a large bowl and cover with a 2-liter of Coca Cola (seriously!) and put in the refrigerator over night. The next day, take it straight from the bowl into the crock pot and cover with beef broth (maybe 3 cans). Cook on high for 3 hours and turn down to low for 3 to 6 hours. It falls apart and just melts in your mouth!

By the way...GO BUCKS! Just waiting for Jan. 7.
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Edit...Pretty much any cut will do. I've used London broil, an English roast, chuck roast. Anything is fine!


Answers: This is a guaranteed winner an sooo easy. The night before heavily salt and pepper both sides of roast. Place into a large bowl and cover with a 2-liter of Coca Cola (seriously!) and put in the refrigerator over night. The next day, take it straight from the bowl into the crock pot and cover with beef broth (maybe 3 cans). Cook on high for 3 hours and turn down to low for 3 to 6 hours. It falls apart and just melts in your mouth!

By the way...GO BUCKS! Just waiting for Jan. 7.
O-H...

Edit...Pretty much any cut will do. I've used London broil, an English roast, chuck roast. Anything is fine!

you just cook in a crock pot until it does

Crock pots are fool proof, but if you don't have the time to cook meat for 8hrs, this is what I do. Season both sides of roast make sure one of the seasonings is meat tenderizer, careful with other seasons that have salt, meat tenderizer is salty. brown in 2 tbs. oil, put in roaster pan with 1 onion sliced thin, 3 cloves garlic minced 2 cups water, cover with lid, cook on 350 for 3 hrs, the flour you browned with, will make its own gravy, if you want veggies, like pot roast, just add these after 11/2 hours of cooking, enjoy.

Cook it on low heat for a long time. Low and slow.

Crockpot baby!!!!

- 5 1/2 lb roast
- 1 or 2 (10.75) cream of mushroom soup
- 1 package of dry onion soup mix
- 1 1/4 water
- 3 or 4 medium potatoes (cut 1 inches)

Brown meat in skillet first before placing in your slow cooker with the ingredients already mixed. 4 to 5 hours on high, and 8 hours on low

My mother puts it in the oven. You could marinate it and let it sit before cooking it.

boil the roast for about on hour or so and then finish up with the crock pot 5 hours leaves fall apart roast

I put mine frozen straight into a crockpot. I cover it with water, add 1/2 stick butter, garlic, salt and pepper to taste, a peeled whole onion, and some celery seed. I put the crock pot on low, at night before I go to bed, so that it will be cooked the next evening by supper/dinner time. Most of the time, I add carrots and potatoes the next morning before I go to work. I've never had a roast come out dry or tough yet.

in the crock pot for sure, and make sure you have plenty of onion under, around and on top....something about it tenderizes the meat and they taste great too!

Put the roast in a shallow oven pan. Season with garlic salt/pepper. Add water just below half way up the roast. You can add 2 Tbs beef bouillon to water, or use can/box beef broth instead of water for more richness.Cover tightly with foil and place in a 325 degree oven. Cook 3 hours. After 1 1/2 hours, you can add some halved or quartered potatoes, whole carrots & a quartered, cut up onion, but you don't have to. The liquid is what makes it tender.

I cook mine in the crock pot with desired seasoning and a can of coke/sprite/pepsi. Just place in crock pot pour can of beverage and season. Cook on low 10-12 hours or high 6-8. Be careful when you remove from pot it will fall into several pieces.

What you want to do to it is called braising, and a chuck roast is a perfect cut of meat for this. -Brown it well on both sides and then place in a pan or crockpot...be sure to do this first, it adds not only a more pleasing color to the roast, but adds a ton of rich flavor to the pot juices. Add just a cup or so of the liquid of your choice - I mix it up depending on what I have - water, beer, stock, red wine. Toss in a bay leaf, pinch of thyme & oregano, pinch of S&P, a crushed garlic clove, and you're ready to go. Cover and cook slowly - in a crockpot, plan on around 8 hours, in a 300F oven, about 2 1/2 to 3, the same for a pot on top of the stove on the lowest heat possible. This style of cooking is what chuck roasts are made for, and the meat will be really tender and moist. If you want to add root veggies, add about 1/2 way through the cooking times. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

With any kind of roast this is how i make it:

Take out of fridge, put in a crock pot add water until covered, than add onions, lots of seasoning, carrots, potatoes ect. cook on high for 2 hours, than turn down to low heat and slow cook for 6 hours and it will be done. its best to start at about 8 in the morning so its ready for dinner time. I cant even take it out of the crock pot with out it falling apart. Its very good too. I usually use these seasoning: Onion powder, seasoning salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Its very good too!





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