I bought a 7 pound beef tenderloin at Fresh Market that the butcher just cut and packaged for me.
What is best way to store it in the refrigerator? Will it keep for 5 days or longer?
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Sign up to join this communityIf you can get a good tight wrap of plastic wrap around it and store in the bottom of your fridge, where the temp should be approaching 32F it should last out the 5 days just fine. If you have a rub in mind for it you might apply that first then wrap and store.
Remember that beef is usually hung anywhere from 5 to 30 days at 33F in quarters before being butchered. If you don't have a thermometer for your fridge, get one (or two even, one high and one low) so you have a good idea of what your temp range is. If the coldest region of your fridge is over 35F you should turn it down some. See @HoboDave's answer for a better commentary on fridge temps.
'leaving it in fridge and throwing it on the grill'
What kind of 'precautions' are you talking about here? A good tight wrap? Using a thermometer to make sure the temperature is in the safe zone?(33-35F)? Or maybe putting a rub on it (maybe I should have specified a 'salt rub' in order to preserve and flavor the meat?. What other precautions should be included? (I hope I don't sound flip, If I have suggested something that is unsafe, I would like to know, so I don't do it myself at the very least.)
Dec 23, 2011 at 5:33