Had a customer ask me to age a ribeye in their minivan last Thursday

Some lady walks into my shop with a whole ribeye primal and says she wants me to dry age it for her, but she'll pick it up every few days to let it 'breathe' in her minivan. I told her that's basically a salmonella science experiment, but she insisted it's how her grandma did it. Anyone ever deal with a customer who had a completely insane storage idea?

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ray_miller8423d ago

Told a guy once that keeping his brisket in a cardboard box in the garage was a bad idea, but he swore by it... ended up bringing it back a week later asking why it smelled like a barn.

shanelee23d ago

Takes a weird kind of stubbornness to trust a cardboard box more than just common sense. Seems like a lot of people get so locked into their own way of doing something that they can't see the obvious train wreck coming until it's too late.

the_jessica23d ago

People get real attached to their grandma's methods without stopping to think how much food science has changed since then. @ray_miller84's barn story tracks with what I've seen, folks don't realize that temperature control isn't a suggestion. A minivan parked in the sun is basically a Crock-Pot on wheels, just not the kind you want cooking dinner.