Kristen and Carrie discuss unusual ways to cook, nearly burning down a house and colorful poo. What could be more delightful? Join them as they use unusual cooking tools to make a recipe from 1973.
Episode Transcript for Steak in a Brown Paper Bag
as our resident chef if you were going to cook a delicious steak what would you do ooh I think I'd sear it in a nice cast iron skillet not a gross cast iron skillet no probably not that would be well gross well either way that's not what we're doing today oh no today we're gonna go ahead and mix a little meat juices with creative juices oh juice ewwh [Music]
welcome to Mom's Wooden Spoon get your apron on and your fanny flicker ready as we cook up some nostalgia ooh
yummy hello everyone we have returned to the Buckeye Cowbelles recipe book for this one oh man I bet people are pretty nervous this time I mean they're like what other tasty confection can they ruin with meat that's right yeah so first and foremost yeah I hope this recipe is better than the last one oh my gosh I am really hoping I think you had the gaggies on that one oh I mean the smell that's right the powdered beef it was basically powdered it went right up your nose and you lost it that episode it was horrible like oh I'm gagging thinking about it I am I would eat Olive ham salad yeah before I would smell that beef nasty oh it was awful okay so anyway I don't want to get anybody's gag reflex going no because I think this one might be pretty darn good yeah and yeah how terribly appropriate of us to pick a recipe from the meat cookbook to celebrate national steak day today's national steak day well kind of it's coming up on the 25th of April oh and it is steak like the kind you eat not the kind you stab the vampire with oh good to know good to know yes so you guys can celebrate this well that's great because this episode is going to be a few days before this you guys can prepare yes whoa so what a fun national holiday steak day awesome yes unless you're a vegetarian and then not fun at all have a nice mushroom steak Yeah Yeah tofu steak tofu steak that does not sound appealing it might be good okay sure yeah yeah okay we'll go with that all right but you know we can't just cook a steak we've got to do something unique and interesting this is a Buckeye Cowbelles they've got a lot to live up to they really do so yeah we are going to cook today duh duh duh duh I was gonna duh duh duh duh steak in a brown paper bag oh my gosh I have you know what I was going to say I've never cooked in a brown paper bag before but I have made microwave popcorn in a brown paper bag I have made caramel corn in a brown paper bag one of Mom's multiple caramel corn recipes that's right it was her favorite because there was little cleanup that's right well I kind of researched cooking in a brown paper bag and there were all kinds of funny things on the internet okay so Kristen says I kind of researched oh she's kind of clued me in this not a kind of research no she went down the rabbit hole I did man of brown paper bag cooking it is awesome okay we'll start simplistically I found a woman online it was a YouTube video she made brownies individual brownies in sandwich size brown paper bags she literally poured the batter in a brown paper bag and then she put sprinkles on the top or little chopped nuts coconut whatever baked it in the paper bag pulled it out ripped the paper bag off and everybody had their own little brownie that was the size of the bottom of a sandwich size brown paper bag that's that's a good size that's a pretty decent size that's actually like two brownies I think I would think so or one brownie for me or our mother who likes chocolate right yep so I thought that was interesting she also showed how she cooked a turkey in a grocery size brown paper bag well I have cooked a turkey in one of those plastic cooking bags has to be healthier for you than wrapping plastic I imagine imagine yeah but there were people online that were really freaked out about cooking in a brown paper bag and the poisons that may emanate from the paper well you know are we using it inked up that's exactly what somebody said that they were really really worried about the ink and that it might give off fumes they also said that grocery bags are not sterile and that the fibers can emit toxic fumes Okay so my pan roasting pan is not anywhere close to sterile that's right but there were extensive discussions about where they store paper bags in grocery stores and that potentially cockroaches are crawling all over it kind of gross okay no cockroaches in my house right because we're using a sandwich size paper bag and so that would have been wrapped in plastic at the factory yeah right which probably the paper bags are laying all over the place and cockroaches are running all over them I don't know I don't either but I'm not too worried about that I wasn't either I mean they're very flat the paper bag so the Cockroach isn't getting in well that's true the paper bag right this is kind of scary but then there was somebody who was on a different forum who was really worried and he said has anybody ever baked something in a brown paper bag and had the fool thing catch on fire it scares me and the only response in this entire Forum was you're
fine that was someone's mom who was sick of this crap just put it in the brown paper bag shut up and sit down and eat the stupid thing move on you're freaking fine man we put parchment paper in the oven nobody cares why why why now people that's hilarious and I think brown paper bags are kind of cool because as kids obviously all of our groceries came in brown paper bags you lined your garbage can yes with your leftover Chief Supermarket brown paper bags you wrapped your textbooks in brown paper bags yes you did you all knew how to fold those suckers just right and slip the yes you did that was an art oh yeah decorate the heck and you learned how to do it so that the ink was on the inside not the outside so you had lots of blank canvas for decorating your book oh yeah I suppose somebody who didn't grow who's not old like us maybe would have more concerns about a brown paper bag because it's not a huge part of their life I mean for us you go to the movie theater and want to steal you're steal you weren't stealing we didn't steal you wanted to sneak sneak in your popcorn what was it in Mom put it in a paper bag and stuck it in a gigantic purse a totally and completely unsterilized brown paper bag that's true so the people who are freaking out are the younguns yeah I think it's because it's just not a part of their their life that's true and you know what cooking and brown paper bags have been around since the early 1900s did you find this out from your research Carrie I did what yes and my favorite one that I found is there was actually a article about a cookbook from 1911 and here's the title of the cookbook are you ready paper bag cooking Wonder working system perfected by M Sawyer world's greatest living chef oh my gosh good job M Sawyer being alive know right wow that's exciting it not only listed a variety of meals you could cook in a paper bag but he also wrote about occasional burning and exploding paper bags why would you had that in the cookbook why would the bag explode I don't know and why did I say bag why would the bag explode are you from Wisconsin I don't know Minnesota I don't know I don't know I don't know the bag exploded man you're fine that is such a mom thing I have had enough of this conversation you're fine oh my gosh well this is not just throw a steak in a paper bag slap it in the oven this has fancy stuff on it doesn't it Carrie oh I mean yeah butter and crackers what come on man you had to buy this special garlic butter spread um that you would like find in the bakery aisle that you'd make your own garlic bread right yeah I did and then ironically I'm looking at the steak so my husband props to him he bought the steak for us thank you it had to be 2 in thick that's one thick steak it is and they don't sell 2 in thick steaks at the grocery store everything prepackaged was an inch and so he had to have a lovely talk with the butcher at the grocery store and he had exactly one steak available for cutting wow I have no idea what it is but it is here in front of us wrapped in brown paper butcher paper which is another thing they said online that they like to cook in these people on these forums would the thing in a brown butcher paper it's not sterile and it's not being kept so that cockroaches don't climb over it I mean think all the stuff we soda cans oh you drink right out you don't wipe that off and a mouse is probably peed right on the top of that all over it I wipe it off every I do but I use my thumb so get rid of all of the germs get rid of the germ maybe the mouse pee but then that's on your thumb and then you eat something delicious you lick your thumb you have no idea like lick my thumb to to open the brown paper bags eeeewww well something tells me that these Buckeye Cowbelles had access to beautiful 2 inch thick steaks I would imagine well we did not prep well at all I'm looking at this stuff the we didn't take the paper off normally we try to take all of the crinkly crankly things and open them up do the measuring whatever we did none of that no so y'all sit tight and we are going to crinkle and crankle like crazy for just a few seconds here and gain access to everything we need access to on your mark get set go woo hoo the butter's open ow ooh ooh I cut myself don't bleed in the butter oh my gosh this is a mess man that hurt are you bleeding are you okay it didn't cut the skin it didn't but it hurts you made a lot of noise for a whole lot of nothing go ahead and say it you're fine I didn't even think of that Kristen you're fine thank you I know I know man I missed the golden opportunity dang it Carrie you are not on your game today I am not okay so here is the recipe you have a USDA Choice beef steak 2 inches thick then we're going to take three tablespoons of garlic spread concentrate we don't want any of that unconcentrated garlic spread I don't even know that that exists today but okay I I'm not even sure that that's what we got we bought a butter with garlic mixed in yeah I think that'll be delicious and then you mix that with 2 tablespoons of olive oil or salad oil mhm and so we're going to mix the butter and the oil with um some Worcestershire sauce yum some seasoned pepper what the heck is seasoned pepper well that's fascinating it's peppery pepper peppery pepper pepper with a little extra pepper I like me some peppery pepper man pepper ground by pepper what that didn't make any sense so we're going to use some well seasoned pepper and we're going to mix that all together in a bowl and spread it all over the steak yes and then the special thing is we are going to then press some dry bread crumbs or cracker crumbs all over it yes and we had a conversation about do we use dried breadcrumbs do we use cracker crumbs Kristen very kindly offered her stale Saltines yes yes um I was going to go for Ritz oh I didn't have Ritz I did buttery deliciousness but that would have been you know what when somebody offers you stale Saltines you say yes please absolutely cuz you know what you'll be fine it's fine it's fine and then I'm reading the directions it says make a paste of the garlic spread oil Worcestershire sauce salt and pepper maybe that's the season maybe seasoned pepper is salt and pepper maybe that's what they meant that's hilarious that's weird I don't get it that is but here's my favorite part of the instructions so then they tell you how long to cook it yeah okay so in 40 minutes you'll have a rare steak which I do not want in 50 minutes you'll have a medium rare steak which Kristen wants yeah I'm more of a fan of medium yeah um but in 60 minutes you'll have well done what happened to medium and medium well I know right somewhere between 50 minutes and 60 minutes cross your fingers and pull that bad boy out the Buckeye Cowbelles are like who would go beyond rare honestly they threw in the other numbers just for weirdos here's good steak that's right here's not as good steak and here's if you're just an idiot and want to ruin it well we can't help you people we cannot help you one bit I thought that was hilarious that's awesome we're gonna give you three choices and you know whatever whatevs if you go over 30 minutes that's on
you oh my gosh well let's start making this uh spread here this paste okay we got to fix a bunch of junk together right yeah Okay so we need three tablespoons of the garlic spread concentrate and then two tablespoons of the olive oil maybe when you take the garlic spread you just have to concentrate that's what it is I think that's it concentrate really hard I can do that here's a little baby a spatula if you need that oh thank you cuz I was going to use my finger and it's buttery eeww and it was touching the mouse pee on your soda can earlier yes because I've had a lot of soda so far this morning oh my gosh well this recipe book came out in 1973 it did and you know what I found that happened in 1973 that's very apropos for this recipe your little baby sister was born yes and the first week of April 1973 there was actually a nationwide meat boycott really yeah people were super mad about the rising food prices especially meat prices right you want to know what a one pound sirloin steak cost in 1973 oh I would love to know Kristen they were super I know I know cuz I did a lot of research Carrie right after the brown paper bag that's right well they were super ticked because it cost a whole dollar and eleven cents for a pound of sirloin steak holy cow man we need to boycott stuff no kidding there's a Kellogg's boycott going on right now is there because they almost did a let them eat cake type of situation people are upset about the rising food cost so Kellogg's came out and said well don't worry about that poor people just eat Frosted Flakes for dinner maybe not one of their better marketing not the best people are boycotting ye old Kellogg's someone did not think that one through all the way okay so I have something to share with you okay what is it so do you think cooking in oops hold on let me fling butter your general direction well ya fling ham you fling all kinds of things this is going to be a bit tricky cuz that butter is hard how are we going to mix in is it in a microwave safe dish can we warm it up like just five seconds I'm going to do that yeah okay oh this smells like heaven so yeah this butter concentrate stuff was super hard I microwaved that for five seconds and it's perfect excellent okay so Carrie has a story for us I'm gonna add the olive oil so as I mentioned before my husband he's the cook in the family yeah and so as I was preparing for this I did not research brown paper bags what uhuh I did look up how to cook the perfect steak however did you uhhuh there were a lot of ideas and I will let you know that not a one of them included a brown paper bag what come on nope for realps um for realps but so I asked my husband I'm like all right what are some weird cooking techniques that you know of oh okay you know like cooking in a brown paper bag yeah and he's like oh radiator cooking I'm sorry what what we lived in a really old house um when I was in high school and we had those old fashioned radiators yeah that would have like oil or water or something in them and so we would constantly put tins of water on the radiators because it would humidify the air oh it would you know it heat up the water and so you wouldn't shock as you walked around the house yes apparently some people cook on them really I was thinking like in the car well that's what he was talking about oh in the car so it is a thing is it a thing it is a thing I'm guessing they don't wrap the stuff in a paper bag though no they wrap it in the aluminum foil aluminuminum yes and so the instructions I found multiple websites on how to cook on the car radiator and so they're like so what you want to do is start the car up and drive around for a little bit because you need to heat up the radiator a bit and then you get to the radiator and you start touching it and when you burn the crap out of yourself that's the spot you want to cook on oh my gosh cuz apparently the radiator heat is not even I had no idea first I'm sorry I'm making a lot of noise mixing this that was a lot of pepper it was I did not put in all the pepper because I have very finely ground pepper it was a lot and I did only half of it because it was too much the the whole mixture now is just kind of pepper colored it really is well there's worcestershire in there too seasoned pepper colored oh that is well seasoned yeah that's awesome so okay so after you burn the crap out of your finger yeah you take your meal maybe like some hot dogs oh hot dogs on the radiator ooh la la wrap those suckers in foil you could do like a roast but only if you have a long drive a roast how do you make it not fall off oh there's instructions for that you're kidding me no I am not so then you you take it and you put it on and you have to leave the top of the aluminum foil kind of loosey goosey and then you shut the hood because you want to see the distance between your food and the hood oh my gosh so you can then shove stuff in between between your food item and the hood to push it down real tight so as you're speeding on down the road you don't lose your item and so you secure your packet so it does not fly away whilst driving how do you secure it well so they recommended making balls of aluminum foil and sticking them on the top and then putting the lid down so the pressure of the radiator the food the ball just kind of wedges it in there hood would all just keep it and so you don't want to like drive through a parking lot like Home Depot that has those super super high speed bumps probably not you do not want to go to the car wash but they're like well if you're just doing a quick commute to work yeah you would have to do like pre-cooked sausages oh you can make breakfast on your way to work good grief or precooked breakfast sandwiches and you just put them on the radiator just saying I'd rather swing by Mickey D's when you get to work it's hot and ready to eat so you need to be careful cuz now you got to take all of this off oh my gosh you have to have oven mitts in your car yes or maybe just some tongs okay maybe take some barbecue tongs with you so you can eat your this sounds like a weird plan Carrie but if you're driving cross country just throw a roast on there and then you'll have dinner next time we drive to Ohio Carrie and think how delicious that will smell as the roast juices sizzle over the radiator yum yum we could show up at our family's house be like don't worry about dinner folks we brought it with us can you toss some potatoes and carrots in there well why not ooh yeah I would say and I didn't read this so this is just me on the fly folks yeah I would get the extra thick aluminum foil oh good point yeah don't go the thinnest generic version get the extra thick which is what Carrie would generally do is get the cheapest oh 100 perent yes yes I would on another note Carrie look at the ugly ugly color of this mixture I took a picture it is so gross that is horrible color it is God awful but it does not smell too peppery it really smells yummy the worcestershire smells great and so it's way runnier than I expected it to be totally it was the two tables it so it was only bledleledled exciting I'm excited it was only three tablespoons of the garlic spread and two of the olive oil so it really made it pretty runny thought it was going to be super thick I really did too I thought it would be more like a paste okay so I did not do brown paper bag research right however I did run across something brown paper baggie and what it said is is that it's the grease kind of coating the bag yes that is the key to the deliciousness of brown paper bag cooking that is cool yeah so are we going to start a grease fire in your oven I hope not I thought for sure you were gonna be like it'll be fine yeah oh my gosh darn it another missed opportunity I'm I'm lobbing them at you Kristen you tried all right it really looks gross it's it's a horrible color but we're going to put Saltine crackers on it so no worries that's true okay I'm going to shmear it all over but it's not going to stick quite as well as I had anticipated no you know what I think we ought to do we ought to spread and then before we turn it over to the other side press the crumbs on so we can fliparoonio look at you thinking what do you think you think that's a good idea I do I think that's a great idea going down the sides here now this looks gross but I think it's probably going to taste a delicious you know I don't think it looks that gross to be honest the color is almost like a liver pate it is but it's still nice I'm just going to let you do everything that includes touching the meat okay okay so while you're doing all that making a mess yes I was so impressed with my husband oh yeah and his radiator cooking that I'm like there's got to be other things right right right weird cooking techniques huh and you know I've got the interwebs at my disposal you do do let's see what it has to say Okay so this one was an interesting one salmon yes in the dishwasher oh gross yeah okay so let me read this because they use words I don't know what they are cooking a whole salmon isn't the easiest of tasks oh yeah we're go big or go home people okay now here's the part I was I was all on that sentence I was good with that it usually ends up in a fish kettle straddling two rings on the hob what the heck does that I thought for sure I'd be like oh Carrie you don't know what that means you've never cooked in a fish kettle straddling the rings on the hob I don't know what the heck that means I straddle rings on the hob on the daily that's inappropriate Carrie you're inappropriate Kristen oh my gosh what the heck okay so FYI did you look up what that meant no oh come on I have never cooked a whole salmon and you've never cooked on the hob do not have a fish kettle nor do I have two rings on the hob yeah so um anyway so because you obviously who wants to straddle the hob so just to keep reading because I think it's it's fun yeah uh dishwashers heat their water during the cycle and the heat is enough to poach a salmon ooh poached salmon yeah so obviously the trick is to wrap your salmon tightly in foil oh my gosh run the dishwasher on the hottest and highest oh my goodness okay and don't put detergent in but that's really a given it's really a given is that what that said it did it said that straddling two rings on the hob that's not a given this is crazy I thought that was the weirdest thing I'd ever oh my gosh first off can you imagine the smell well I can't imagine because these new dishwasher that seal really tightly do you ever open yours and it just stinks to high heavens yes sometimes even with nothing in it or you just put a couple dishes in it and it seals so tightly when you shut it the stink just from those dirty dishes is just gross yes the person who's talking and not doing any of the work is not allowed to point out how I'm doing it incorrectly well you're not doing it wrong it's on the side you can't see whatever you're fine you're fine
yeah I am okay so oh gosh poached salmon think of when you open the dishwasher for the first time and that dishwasher steam hits you it's salmon steam salmon steam yummer wow I made quite a mess here you know what I did way more cracker crumbs on the cutting board than I did on the steak itself I do believe you you know who didn't mention that you didn't Carrie you're so kind and lovely ooh let me get out the brown paper bag we've got the next step in this let me see okay it says to place in the brown paper bag and close with a skewer or paper clips okay so I guess we just toss that bad boy in here it's going to make a little noise there the question is do I put it flat on the bottom or I think flat on the bottom because this the thickest it's the perfect size it really is it's almost like exactly the size of the bottom of the bag maybe that's why they said 2 in thick okay I'm going to fold over the top one big fold I think so I can already see the grease coming through on the sides in my mind this was going to be on its side but it's standing upright it is it looks really cute y'all it does okay nobody said what to do with the bag you just slap it on the rack yes I'm not going to do that I'm gonna put it on a cookie sheet oh because I'm afraid of drippage but I think the whole idea is that the bag soaks up the drippage I'll be interested to find out that's why I'm putting it on a cookie sheet what if you yeah put it on the rack and put the cook cookie sheet on the rack underneath it okay I could do that because I'm wondering if it would get like lines and be more visually appealing maybe from the heat of the all right and I was also afraid that putting it on the cookie sheet might cause it to steam more than sometimes the cookie sheet messes up the cooking it does you know what I think is weird oh I don't shush I think it's weird that every frozen pizza directions say to put it directly on the shelf yes have you not had cheese fall off of it onto the cookie sheet or the pizza pan that you're cooking it on it would cause it would cause havoc on the bottom of your oven do you put yours directly on the rack yes you do yes I've never done it I always put it like on a pizza stone or nope really but you have also never looked at the bottom of my stove that is true maybe yours looks way nicer than mine I don't know I can't believe that it does it's pretty gross okay I'm going to stick this in the oven and put the sheet under it how much time are we going to give this 50 minutes for medium rare or 60 minutes for burned your choice so I did find one other unique cooking method I felt like I would share with all of you oh so you're in the mood for making yourself a little grilled cheese sammy oh did you say grilled cheese or girl cheese grilled cheese sammy grilled cheese sammy for whatever reason you have no grill available to you just use the iron what could go wrong oh my gosh yeah okay because this is how easy that's going to be oh tell me about it all right so you're going to obviously heat up your iron right you're going to place your sandwich inside a brown paper bag oh okay and then on top of newspaper because this doesn't take more time than getting out a pan right then you turn the iron on to low what and you place on top of the bag and smush the crap oh out of your sandwich who why would you you'd have to be pretty flipping desperate find A find newspaper then take the brown paper bag then smoosh the crap out of your piece of bread because you got you've got the iron sitting on top of it well I was going to say it might be something that a college student would do who doesn't have any cooking surface but what college student irons their clothes anymore thank you wow well when I was in college one summer I stayed in a very very old sorority house it was a really old beautiful building right and had one of Mom's ancient irons she probably owned it in what the 60s or something and the cord was kind of frayed and I plugged it in to iron something and uh the cord caught on fire and it started to burn the hardwood floor oh my gosh I almost burned down the sorority house which one of the fraternity houses had just completely burned down the year prior oh man you arsonist you I know it was not me I did not burn down the fraternity house nearly burnt down the sorority house nobody knows I stomped that bad boy out I unplugged that I threw that iron away and nothing to see here did you leave a scorch mark on the floor I did pulled a rug over that snip snap snip all done all right well we are going to let this thing cook and cook and cook yeah for 50 minutes 50 minutes because we're going for medium rare that's right we would have gone for medium but that is not an option not an option we couldn't possibly figure out the math to do that that's a lot of distance from medium rare to well done yeah in a 10 minute that's right time span and it's not like you can open the bag and check very easily no and I wonder if they lie do you think well done they're like let's call it well done but it's really just as far cooked as we're willing to allow people to go I think that's probably it yeah anything beyond 60 Minutes is just gross and we're not we're not cool with that we're not cool with that I mean we're Buckeye Cowbelles we don't roll like that thank you do not cow bell that way no we do not because what does this world need more cowbell heck yeah it does all right we'll be back
[music] okay Kristen so the steak smelled delicious while it was cooking oh yeah you could smell the garlic a little bit of the worcestershire sauce oh yeah the house smelled good and now it is out and out of the very greasy bag and it looks nasty it is lumpy bumpy gray yeah gray it is gray yeah and the bottom of it was kind of gloppy and I don't think this is going to be cooked no it looks very rare okay I'm gonna cut into it oof okay I'm a little nervous here oh I'll be dog on it is cooked it is cooked medium yeah almost medium well I'm gonna cut should I cut like totally in half yeah try cut right on into the middle no way it's beautifully cooked I would not have left it in any longer no it's almost too cooked I'm blown away I am shocked and it looks juicy wow it is absolutely the disgusting outer edge it is but yeah I'm cutting it and we're getting some juice let's get you a uh well good grief it's falling over cuz it's so thick two inches is a very thick steak I'm shocked I thought we'd cut into it and it would be raw to be quite honest I was expecting yuck to come out yeah well you get the first bite and while you bite it speaking of gross colors apparently in
1973 one of my favorite childhood cereals came out Booberry right and all I could think about Booberry was the story that Mom tells about it and it's that and of course we're eating food right now is that I had blue poo when I was a little girl I would eat the Booberry and have blue poo do you know that was a thing oh yeah Frankenberry stool is what it was called and they had non-digestible food coloring in Frankenberry Count Chocula and Booberry and so many parents complained about their children's poo being these crazy colors except for of course Count Chocula that they reworked the formula isn't that funny well speaking of Count Chocula Brown oh gosh the steak is delicious no it's moist the topping is fantastic it's very nicely cooked it's melt in your mouth yeah I am thrilled with the texture of this steak but it is softer than a typical medium I think the texture is beautiful the flavor is amazing and you absolutely want to get some of that yummy horrible looking crust it's crazy I would send that back if it came out that color at a steakhouse oh absolutely to me that's well done mmhmm but it is so melt in your mouth tender I am blown away yeah I'm going in for bite number two because it's good it is delicious I am so shocked I am so glad my husband is at home cuz I don't want to share I want to eat this whole thing all by myself and I'll share with you only because I'm standing here exactly yeah that is incredible and you're absolutely right it does not look like it's cooked correctly but it has the softness has the juiciness it's delicious and that absolutely horrible gray outer crust which you can see I mean it's nice and thick it is it tastes so good it is the ugliest thing I've ever loved oh I think that's a perfect way to say it it is the ugliest thing that I have ever loved and we didn't add the salt because there was no measurement in the recipe for the salt it said in the directions add the salt but I think it's salty good yes but we also use Saltine crackers and so maybe if you're using breadcrumbs you are going to want to sprinkle in some salt right cuz it could absolutely use just a touch more yeah but it's not lacking no not one bit I am shocked beyond all shock yeah I was thinking oh we've got another brownie situation on our hands you know the first thing I thought is there's no way that this is cooked 100% it just looked horrible and not only is it cooked but it is cooked beautifully all the way through yeah it's gray it is just it is very gray totally gray yeah unbelievable crazy and you know what the bag did not catch on fire at all no the edges aren't even crispy burp nope and I moved the rack further down so that the top of the bag would not touch the burner at the top and the bottom of this was not burned no now we did not put it on a cookie sheet right we put a cookie sheet underneath it and it did get some juices on it a lot of juices I bet if we measured it was about a quarter of a cup yeah so you you absolutely don't want to just trust the bag to absorb everything no you know you would not be serving the prettiest steak of all time but I don't think anybody at that table would complain no it's tender and delicious and then you can go start a bonfire get your grease soaked paper bag and I mean it's the best fire starter I mean so gray steak and s'mores it is baby whoop whoop I'm going for it so on that note thank you for joining us for another episode of Mom's Wooden Spoon in case you haven't gotten enough of obscure food related holidays never fear we have another one ready for you coming out May 6th and you do not want to miss it heck no you don't [Music]
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