Perfect Roast Beef

15 minutes per pound or 450gms , medium rare.

10 minutes per pound, rare.

Initially cook for 20 minutes at 220 C or 430F, then drop to 330F or 170C and then start your roasting time.

 

Well if you do fire up the gas oven. It’s gas mark 7 for 430F and mark 3 for 330F.

Not sure if a pressure cooker will give you the same result.

I put stab cuts through the top of the meat and stuff garlic slices and rosemary in them.
Salt the cap fat as well.

 

You can feed quite a number of people with an 11-12 pound roast beef. Just cut up ciabatta bread slices or rolls for sandwiches.
Have the usual sides to put in the rolls with it. Gravy as well.

We do them for street ministry lunches down at the river sometimes.

Aiming for ‘ When I was hungry, you gave me roast beef ‘

Well people used to get the cheapest nastiest sausages and cook them on the bbq , burn those sausages, and then offer them to people on cheap white bread.
Are we going back to burnt offerings to the Lord I said to the organisers. Got replies to the effect, ‘ it’s free, they can’t complain ‘.

What we give to people, we give to Jesus, would you give cheap burnt sausages to Jesus our Lord and King.

People need to escape a little bit from their sufferings. So I picked a nice place by the river that we could bring people. They can eat nice healthy food, lay on the grass and watch the boats drinking fresh apple crush. All very pleasant and a relaxing reprieve.

We can do better than just ‘ something to eat ‘, we can give them the sacrament of friendship, good food, and a beautiful place by still waters to revive their spirit. It’s biblical and it works.

We don’t know how many days like these we will have with the Lord here, but giving good food is an excellent way to show Love to The Lord.

“ you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.“

 

Give it a go, and let me know bro.

 

Generally we roast beef with a couple of onions in the tray, it infuses the dripping.

Save some dripping for the gravy.

Also use the dripping to roast the potatoes, carrots and pumpkin in another tray.

A couple of pints is generally enough to wash down a roast beef dinner, although many people are drinking a bottle of Shiraz or Cab Sav with this type of meal.

 

Can you get an electric wall oven? I’ve got a couple but run a stove top on gas.

Also I can use the wood stove to heat the house water in winter, have the water piping through the firebox , but the summer we have sola hot water operational.
Wood stove can cook our food, heat the house, and heat the water in grid down.

Huge amount of firewood on the property.

We live on rain water tanks so doesn’t matter if water grid goes down, not connected.

Outdoor kitchen is all wood fired, pizza oven, bbq, spit pit etc.

Large veggie and herb gardens which are growing year round, and the orchard and nut trees are big producers, mostly for the markets.

It’s good you are thinking in terms of grid down scenarios.

 

If you can find a way to precisely regulate roasting temperature, I found the above method extremely accurate. The results were perfect.

 

It’s a winner, did another large roast beef, it worked out perfectly, people really enjoyed it.
These timings are absolutely optimal.

Keep these timings in your cooking notes.