On Father's Day Matt & I decided we would attempt to make his most favorite, Prime Rib! We read many many recipes. We went shopping and found the perfect size meat at Costco. We even got a few extra tips from the butcher. He recommended that we get a digital thermometer so we could read the temperature of our meat without opening the oven. So, I went searching for that digital thermometer and I found one at The Home Depot for $10. I bought it and we were all set to make Matt's perfect Father's Day meal!
We scheduled our Sunday around cooking times for dessert, prime rib & all of our sides. This meal was going to be the best Father's day meal Matt has ever had at home!! The creme brulee was easier than we thought & was a success. We began prepping the prime rib and we decided that we were going to do the oven off method which meant DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN FOR TWO HOURS!! We put the prime rib in the oven and we realized that we forgot to add the digital thermometer so we had to open the oven and take out the meat, add the thermometer and start over! About five minutes passes and a loud boom happens in the oven....We ran to see what happened and again we had to open the oven. THE DIGITAL THERMOMETER EXPLODED!
It exploded & melted but our meat was ok! Apparently this digital thermometer was not oven safe at 500 degrees! Lesson learned! We needed a thermometer though, it was very important to know the temperature of the prime rib since we wanted to cook it med-rare! I had to quickly go to Smith's (in my fat girls by the way) & buy any meat thermometer they had. When I got home the house was so smokey but smelled so good, the meat had been cooking at 500 degrees for about 20 minutes & it was looking wonderful! We decided that since we'd already opened the oven twice we would not open the oven until 1 1/2 hours after the oven shuts off.
When we check the meat temperature again we need to raise it 5 more degrees so we put it back in for the 30 more minutes and when we pull it out it is 3 degrees above where we wanted it to be but still med-rare!
Long story short but our first ever home cooked prime rib was delicious. A lot of lessons learned!! Next time we do prime rib, I'm sure we will nail it! Our team work just works!! I love that Matt got to enjoy his most favorite meal at home & even though we had some explosions we did it our way!!
Still working on perfecting the Beasley prime rib recipe but stay tuned, it will come!
HAPPY COOKING!!
-paula
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