Alex, I hope you see this. I work in the food service industry and find myself stressed out when I can't do as well as I'd like. But your upbeat attitude about food helps me through my work days all the time. I can't thank you enough for existing!
I was just thinking this looked like a failed attempt of a lagering chamber I made. The styrofoam box is now used to set my kettle in to hold mash temps.
I though you forgot about telling us! I picked up my entire rib yesterday. Aged 45 days, and today i cooked my first steak. The most tender steak I have ever eaten. After this rack is gone, I think I will age the next one to 55 days.
i dont say this often...but i think i have a crush. this is the first video i ever watched...his accent, curly hair, and his creative cleverness=crush.
the way he says "I don't know why there would be any problem" is honestly, like, i don't even know where to begin, the sound of his voice and the way he looked. Priceless xD
Your fridge looking like a bomb reminded me of a pretty funny story. So I'm an engineering student and one of our first projects was to make a mock charger for your phone powered by human energy. A lot of people went with magnets inside a small PVC pipe with copper wire coiled around it. The next semester, someone threw out the no longer needed project and after a garbage man saw it, the cops were called because it looked like a pipe bomb. Tons of cops, bomb squads, and one super cool bomb disposal robot later, an email was sent out to the class remind us to properly dispose of projects that may be mistaken for bombs and cause panic throughout the university 😂
Haha my dad and were doing a science fair project, and we needed a sealed, high pressure environment for the thing to work. So we used a pressure cooker and a makeshift lid hooked up to a compressor. We had some sensors inside, so to keep track of everything we drew some schematics on the side with a sharpie. Later our weird neighbor we knew for like a month needed to borrow it, and we forgot to wipe the sharpie off. So OF COURSE he thought it was a bomb, and like 20 minutes later the police show up at our house with their guns out while we nervously explained our situation 😆.
NASA t shirt in some videos, resourceful in making things, draws perfect diagrams, knows about electrolysis and applies it and other science... you must be a fellow engineer!
I have been dry aging my rib eye roasts for years in my main refrigerator. As soon as I get it home, it goes on a rack and dries until ready for herb/oil application and roasting. Granted, it is usually only around 5 days or so, but what a difference those few days make. I've never had a problem with residual smell or taste, but have never made it to 45 days either. I like your creation and may have to give it a try. Once you've tasted dry aged beef, it's hard to go back.
I use one of my veggie crisper's on the bottom of my fridge for aging beef. Clean it out nicely, throw some duct tape around the cracks, place a cookie cooling rack of a clean cookie tray, dump a bunch of sea salt on the cookie tray and place my beef on the rack. Keep a thermometer sticking out of the drawer, and let it sit for roughly 10 - 15 days. Never failed me.
airflow input and output should be in oposites sides in order to get a flow Alex... consider the input with cold air in the bottom, and assumming the air get some temperature inside the box, output should be placed in top of the box.
I am going to build a dryer along the same lines to make biltong, a South African dried beef delicacy, but the biltong method uses salt and doesn't require refrigeration but rather uses heat to speed up the drying process. The salt at the start of the process prevents bacterial growth. Spices are added for flavouring. Commercial makers also use preservatives such as sodium nitrite but I get angry that manufacturers are even permitted to put that poison in food. Looking forward to seeing the results.
Alex, this is crazy...genius. Great fun to watch your mad mind at work. Loved the vid with Katie Quinn--I subscribed to her, too. I just do physics/science and food and right now you are at the intersection. Salut, beurre!
This is absolutely fantastic. I'd definitely watch quick "check-in" videos to let us know how the bomb (not a bomb) is working: holding temperature and humidity and whatnot before the big reveal on day 45...just sayin' Chapeau!
ton accent anglais a fait ma journee , cela dit , tes videos expliquent tres bien le process , et maintenant j'ai envie d'essayer, merci pourta videos , et continue comme ca
Wow. You are a genius! This chanel is the best food chanel out there, hands down. You definitely should be on Netflix !Keep the videos coming! I am a more creative and better cook because of you! Thx so much for creating content!
Just a quick heads up: You don't need the air in- and outlet in your machine. You usually need air flow to remove the moisture from the air to help the drying process. However, the moisture will be absorbed by the silica gel you added, keeping the air dry.
I like your filming techniques!! Reminds me of casey neystat and im glad theres someone else that is making videos like him! You're my new favorite vlogger for sure! Keep it up and btw great ramen addiction series im actually eating some right now thanks to your videos!
You should add a small robot arm that picks up the small desiccant packs one at a time, moves them through an external oven to drive off the moisture, and then returns the dry desiccant packs to the dry age box.
You really are something else. High level food nerd on a budget! I love it. I can't wait to see the result. If it's as amazingly successful as the sous vide beer cooler, that will make one more way you have improved my life :)
Thanks man can’t wait to try this just got a half side of beef from a co-op I’m in (half a butcher prepared cow)and have a spare fridge in my garage! Thanks so much for the info!!!!👍🏿👍🏿
I did it with an 8lb ribeye roast in a fridge with decent fan that didn’t keep ideal temp but wasn’t opened regularly as it was in garage dry aged it 21 days and turned out perfect and yes it did reek up my fridge but well worth it the prime rib it made for thanksgiving was to die for 💀 definitely good call by the butcher to add air input and output but would recommend adding salts to bottom of your rack or drop tray if you don’t do the whole box in a box that he did. Was fantastic to see how handy you are xD
I'm doing dry aging at home, in all honesty on a small scale the best thing to do is to buy a cheap mini fridge you can buy them new for less than 100 GBP / EUR from Amazon and you can also find them for much cheaper or even for free on various sites like gumtree. This approach is much more viable for most people as many people don't have a fridge that big to begin with nor can they afford to dedicate it all to aging. The other alternative which also produces good results is buying one of the membrane aging bags seal your meat in them and just leave them on a rack in your fridge for 2-4 weeks (turn them daily if there isn't air circulation on the bottom).
Salut Alex! I really enjoyed this series all the way from South Africa. Speaking of DryAged Beef, have you ever heard of Biltong? A South African delicacy no doubt added to by the French Hugenot pioneers... (not to Mention the delicious wines now made in the South African Cape to this day because of their wonderful input to our heritage) I would love to see you try your hand at making biltong and see your reaction to this delicious treat! Much Love and Respect from SA, Byron (P.S. I am not Beth, she is my fiancee and bought me this membership because I have been binge watching your channel for a week now.)
Netflix needs to give you your own tv series
#GetAlexOnNetflix
A french cook AND engineer!...Man , leave some of the ladies for us too!
Foodnetwork
BreakingBeef
Epic shows always. Very enjoyable
Alex, I hope you see this. I work in the food service industry and find myself stressed out when I can't do as well as I'd like. But your upbeat attitude about food helps me through my work days all the time. I can't thank you enough for existing!
"I'm sure this is not stupid, but I'm not entirely sure this is genius."
My new favorite life quote.
I laughed for a good few minutes when you realized your fridge looks like a bomb XD
I genuinely felt bad driving with that in my trunk
Kung Fu Phil That was funny
I almost choked on my broccoli. That was comedy gold.
The device is not heavy, you should have taken your bike.....and a “get out of jail free” card.....😉
“It is clean... as soon as I clean it”... everyone is with you!
I love that you still hold onto your engineering roots. The creativity from both cooking and engineering work so well. Keep up the amazing work!
Hillary Dunkley you're so pretty
A home made wine or beer series would be fun.
Jassi Sangha he is aging wine right now and planning to make a video about it!!
A series, even :)
I was just thinking this looked like a failed attempt of a lagering chamber I made. The styrofoam box is now used to set my kettle in to hold mash temps.
blows my mind how you don't get more views! great at editing your videos, perfect cooking cooking videos and tips. Plus your a Frenchman!
this guy is amazing. clever and crafty
slowestcarpet thanks cutie
I though you forgot about telling us! I picked up my entire rib yesterday. Aged 45 days, and today i cooked my first steak. The most tender steak I have ever eaten. After this rack is gone, I think I will age the next one to 55 days.
i dont say this often...but i think i have a crush. this is the first video i ever watched...his accent, curly hair, and his creative cleverness=crush.
the way he says "I don't know why there would be any problem" is honestly, like, i don't even know where to begin, the sound of his voice and the way he looked. Priceless xD
You've got a good sense of humor, great timing, and good content. Subscribed.
This channel is gonna have millions of subscribers, book it.
I love your humor. well done. Your bringing French life to the world, i like it.
You are brilliant! Build a time machine!! I have full confidence you can do it.
+Jeff Ward In many aspects, it actually is the closest to a Food Time Machine
I learned more on DIY than dry aging beef
You are super creative!
Man... the intersection of food and engineering is my favourite.
Very inventive and funny. I think you could have your own daytime show on television. Great job.
Your fridge looking like a bomb reminded me of a pretty funny story. So I'm an engineering student and one of our first projects was to make a mock charger for your phone powered by human energy. A lot of people went with magnets inside a small PVC pipe with copper wire coiled around it. The next semester, someone threw out the no longer needed project and after a garbage man saw it, the cops were called because it looked like a pipe bomb. Tons of cops, bomb squads, and one super cool bomb disposal robot later, an email was sent out to the class remind us to properly dispose of projects that may be mistaken for bombs and cause panic throughout the university 😂
Haha my dad and were doing a science fair project, and we needed a sealed, high pressure environment for the thing to work. So we used a pressure cooker and a makeshift lid hooked up to a compressor. We had some sensors inside, so to keep track of everything we drew some schematics on the side with a sharpie. Later our weird neighbor we knew for like a month needed to borrow it, and we forgot to wipe the sharpie off. So OF COURSE he thought it was a bomb, and like 20 minutes later the police show up at our house with their guns out while we nervously explained our situation 😆.
Colin Jennings jesus thats crazy hahaha
Who gives a fcuk.
Love it Alex. I love that you DO things and don't just talk about them.
NASA t shirt in some videos, resourceful in making things, draws perfect diagrams, knows about electrolysis and applies it and other science... you must be a fellow engineer!
NoOneKnows Oh did he do a Q and A? New subscriber, barely scratching the surface of his channel
Just one look at his "kitchen studio" and you can tell he done some engineerin'
Can't wait to see how it turns out. Good luck, Alex.
You really are something else Alex, love the video
Yes! I've been waiting for this series to continue! Thank you Alex 🙌🏽☺
perfect English grammar and vocabulary + French accent = c'est parfait :D
I have been dry aging my rib eye roasts for years in my main refrigerator. As soon as I get it home, it goes on a rack and dries until ready for herb/oil application and roasting. Granted, it is usually only around 5 days or so, but what a difference those few days make. I've never had a problem with residual smell or taste, but have never made it to 45 days either. I like your creation and may have to give it a try. Once you've tasted dry aged beef, it's hard to go back.
I immediately remembered to thumbs up you when you were worried that you could be arrested because your fridge looks like a bomb.
Alex, you are the best! Next time I visit France I want to meet you and learn about French food and the best places to get it!
I use one of my veggie crisper's on the bottom of my fridge for aging beef. Clean it out nicely, throw some duct tape around the cracks, place a cookie cooling rack of a clean cookie tray, dump a bunch of sea salt on the cookie tray and place my beef on the rack. Keep a thermometer sticking out of the drawer, and let it sit for roughly 10 - 15 days. Never failed me.
Absolutely the most clever DIY aged beef technique I've ever seen!!! Hope you're gonna make it. Good luck 😄
Engineering design and food, what a fun episode :D . Super excited to see the results!
Nope, I think this is pretty genius. Can't wait to see the results!
Bella brath baekyy
That guy was right, you are something else. Amazing.
what an utter madman! Brilliant and so creative! All my respect :)
This was out of this world fun to watch.
This is my favorite French person ever.
This looks genius and mega convenient for beef jerky, 10/10 would buy for home use
Love your humor! Thank you for the wonderful, creative information.
Simply amazing! Looking forward to see the results!!
This video and whole concept is enthralling. bravo.
Pretty entertaining, Definitely fun to watch! Keep it up and you will have tons of subscribers in no time!
airflow input and output should be in oposites sides in order to get a flow Alex...
consider the input with cold air in the bottom, and assumming the air get some temperature inside the box, output should be placed in top of the box.
I am going to build a dryer along the same lines to make biltong, a South African dried beef delicacy, but the biltong method uses salt and doesn't require refrigeration but rather uses heat to speed up the drying process. The salt at the start of the process prevents bacterial growth. Spices are added for flavouring. Commercial makers also use preservatives such as sodium nitrite but I get angry that manufacturers are even permitted to put that poison in food. Looking forward to seeing the results.
man the engineering you do dude you're the best
A built one a while back and added a few bags of activated charcoal too when all the instructions don’t mention it. Glad I wasn’t wrong about it
Alex, this is crazy...genius. Great fun to watch your mad mind at work. Loved the vid with Katie Quinn--I subscribed to her, too. I just do physics/science and food and right now you are at the intersection. Salut, beurre!
This is absolutely fantastic.
I'd definitely watch quick "check-in" videos to let us know how the bomb (not a bomb) is working: holding temperature and humidity and whatnot before the big reveal on day 45...just sayin'
Chapeau!
“High tech” sealing mechanism. LOL...LOVE IT! Great channel. Very informative and fun. Subscribed immediately.
This is great. I can't wait to see the results. Looking forward to the next video!
ton accent anglais a fait ma journee , cela dit , tes videos expliquent tres bien le process , et maintenant j'ai envie d'essayer, merci pourta videos , et continue comme ca
Spread it - LIKE BUTTER!!! Magic, Buddy.
Wow. You are a genius! This chanel is the best food chanel out there, hands down. You definitely should be on Netflix !Keep the videos coming! I am a more creative and better cook because of you! Thx so much for creating content!
#getAlexOnNetflix
Input and Output are missing was also my first guess, but you solved it really, really great!
Yeeeeessss! This was amazing! Ciao Alex! :)
this channel is awesome, its like casey niestat before he vlogged about nothing. SUBSCRIBED!!!!
Love this! Yes you should be on Netflix for sure!
Very inventive. Can't wait to see the results.
Love your films! I may never try to dry age beef in my home, but it's fascinating to see how it can be done.
For a French guy. I like you... kept it up bro
Dude, I've subscribed just to see how this turns out, but now that I see your other videos, I'm happy I've subscribed.
This is a really cool project Alex, looking forward to seeing how far it goes!
More people need to know about you. Perfection
Dude, that was awesome. I love the creativity in making that Styrofoam aging box. Well done man!
Just a quick heads up: You don't need the air in- and outlet in your machine. You usually need air flow to remove the moisture from the air to help the drying process. However, the moisture will be absorbed by the silica gel you added, keeping the air dry.
I need a very cheap option for a fridge... this styrofoam container is PERFECT! Now lets add a bunch of expensive electronics to it.
GENIUS
this guys a frenching genius
I like your filming techniques!! Reminds me of casey neystat and im glad theres someone else that is making videos like him! You're my new favorite vlogger for sure! Keep it up and btw great ramen addiction series im actually eating some right now thanks to your videos!
As a straight man, I think I am in love with this guy.
You should add a small robot arm that picks up the small desiccant packs one at a time, moves them through an external oven to drive off the moisture, and then returns the dry desiccant packs to the dry age box.
You could use a peltier module for the cooling ... That way you can integrate the air input and output since you won't be putting it in the fridge....
You really are something else.
High level food nerd on a budget! I love it.
I can't wait to see the result. If it's as amazingly successful as the sous vide beer cooler, that will make one more way you have improved my life :)
Been waiting for this! Thanks for the upload Alex!
OMG Alex! Creativity overload
Thanks man can’t wait to try this just got a half side of beef from a co-op I’m in (half a butcher prepared cow)and have a spare fridge in my garage! Thanks so much for the info!!!!👍🏿👍🏿
Very nice design! I can't wait for the follow-up :)
One episode and I'm subscribed. Can't wait to more!
You just got a new patreon supporter! Keep up the excellent work
Hug ! Merci
This is brilliant, you deserve alot more views man. Subbed
the dry aged beef machine is beautiful
I did it with an 8lb ribeye roast in a fridge with decent fan that didn’t keep ideal temp but wasn’t opened regularly as it was in garage dry aged it 21 days and turned out perfect and yes it did reek up my fridge but well worth it the prime rib it made for thanksgiving was to die for 💀 definitely good call by the butcher to add air input and output but would recommend adding salts to bottom of your rack or drop tray if you don’t do the whole box in a box that he did. Was fantastic to see how handy you are xD
I'm doing dry aging at home, in all honesty on a small scale the best thing to do is to buy a cheap mini fridge you can buy them new for less than 100 GBP / EUR from Amazon and you can also find them for much cheaper or even for free on various sites like gumtree. This approach is much more viable for most people as many people don't have a fridge that big to begin with nor can they afford to dedicate it all to aging.
The other alternative which also produces good results is buying one of the membrane aging bags seal your meat in them and just leave them on a rack in your fridge for 2-4 weeks (turn them daily if there isn't air circulation on the bottom).
Thanks Alex, I'm enjoying your channel immensely. I like your Tom Sachs styling
i love your sense of humor
Salut Alex!
I really enjoyed this series all the way from South Africa.
Speaking of DryAged Beef, have you ever heard of Biltong? A South African delicacy no doubt added to by the French Hugenot pioneers... (not to Mention the delicious wines now made in the South African Cape to this day because of their wonderful input to our heritage)
I would love to see you try your hand at making biltong and see your reaction to this delicious treat!
Much Love and Respect from SA,
Byron
(P.S. I am not Beth, she is my fiancee and bought me this membership because I have been binge watching your channel for a week now.)
wow! that s genius Alex .Hats off
You can do it with a vacuum packaging bag or machine, thus you solve the problem of different smells and don't have to buy other fridge.
In 20 years or so, you'll be the ultimate french.
Wonderful creation Alex
Guy at the butcher's was the best part. :D
Totally saved you.
i love the color theme your channel settled on
You shouldnt be a cook but a crazy inventor :o Love you making crazy contraptions.
This just makes you realise how fortunate you are to have a dry aged bags just vacuum seal the meat in them and put them on the rack in the fridge
Could you explain more ?
Nice build....very nice. Thank you this is extremely doable.
Love it and laughed a few times. You are inventive and brilliant
I love your tiny European car and little "definitely not a bomb" dry age fridge
I'm so upset that I seen this video before the testing video is made... I want to see the results now lol instant subscribe.
This is cool! Man keep up with your creations. Even though you're not using the fridge much since nothing else fits in it! Ahah
You can use the silica gel if you heat it, it gets the water out.
Yeah! Maggi season sauce! See you have that in your fridge, pretty awesome!