December 5th – GastroFun.dk Advent Calendar 2018
We are indulging you with plenty of inspiration to make your daily life in the kitchen more fun and exciting.
Therefore, we have found 24 amazing things that any food enthusiast would want for Christmas or to treat their loved ones with.
The DRY AGER® DX500 Maturing Cabinet
If you are into dry-aged meat, then you know that it is much more expensive than regular wet-aged meat, whether you’re dining at a steakhouse or shopping at your local butcher or a supermarket.
It tastes more intensely of meat and has a strong, nutty umami flavor. If it’s something you want to experiment with yourself, then a maturing cabinet might be the way forward for you.
If you’re a big food enthusiast and want to be involved in the entire aging process and love to showcase your meat (maturing cabinet) – then this is the way forward for you.
The cabinet is made by the German company Dry Ager, and their model DRY AGER® DX500 is unique compared to all other cabinets on the market – both in terms of price, design, and quality.
Isn’t there a catch, you wonder? Yes, indeed: The price – you really need to want this, as the price is +25,000 DKK, when you also need hooks, shelves, and possibly salt blocks.
Even though the price is high, believe it or not – the price is actually an argument for buying the cabinet. Not the price of the cabinet, but the fact that you can buy freshly slaughtered/fresh meat from your local butcher 10-30% cheaper than if you buy the ready-to-eat meat they have. This is because the butcher needs to hang the meat in his maturing/cooling room for 3-6 weeks before he can sell it. This ties up his liquidity, and therefore he is interested in selling the freshly slaughtered meat faster (and therefore cheaper).
Specifications:
It is made of stainless steel with the dimensions:
- Internally: 71 x 50 x 43 (height x width x depth in cm).
- Externally: 90 x 60 x 61 (height x width x depth in cm).
There is room for approximately 20 kg of meat, and it must be a maximum of 50 cm long.
The cabinet can be set to temperatures from 0-25 degrees Celsius with 0.1-degree accuracy.
No water connection is required for the cabinet, and there is a controller that manages the humidity. It ranges from 60-90%.
Hygiene is a very important factor when it comes to aging meat. The cabinet is cleaned, among other things, using a carbon filter, which is ventilated every minute with a UV filter.
The cabinet can be purchased from Sousvide.dk.
Read more about the competition here.