About beef's way to eat

Corned beef is slow cooked, so a crock pot is a great way to prepare it. More importantly, choose the right corned beef! Real corned beef is made from beef brisket. Great corned beef is from high quality beef. Most people look for the leanest cut they can find and then complain when it comes out tough. The higher the grade of beef the more fat is marbled into the meat. If you don't see streaks of fat in the meat it's not going to come out tender. Another thing to watch out for is "pumped beef". Our meat packers have learned ways to pump saline and meat tenderizer into beef and have it absorb without leaking out again. If your corned beef says 35% water added it's going to taste a little weird and you are paying 2-4 dollars a pound for that water. It extends shelf life for them too, so they can prepackage meats using cheap illegal labor while eliminating middle class jobs like mine.