Beef

Beef cheek

Oxkind

92°CRest 45 min

Cook to this all the way through

All connective tissue. Cook it until it wobbles.

Safe minimum 63°CUSDA

On the grill

One of the hardest-working muscles on the animal, so it is inedible under-cooked and excellent over-cooked. Low indirect heat for several hours is the only route.

It is ready when it jiggles like set jelly and a probe meets almost no resistance. Wrap it once the outside is coloured to stop it drying out before the inside catches up.

Seasoning

In the grill

110 °Cindirect

This takes hours. The fire is barely alive and the meat is never over it.

Smoke it with oak, hickory or mesquite.

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