| Many people enjoy eating prime rib. There are a | | | | method takes even longer than slow cooking in your |
| variety of prime rib recipes, though, so the first step | | | | oven. Using a smoker barbecue can easily take five |
| in making your own prime rib is to find a recipe that | | | | or six hours. To know if your prime rib is done, you |
| interests you. Generally, most prime rib recipes will | | | | will check the internal temperature like you would do |
| have you roast your prime rib. Although cooking it at | | | | if you slow cooked the prime rib in your oven. For |
| a higher temperature will get your prime rib cooked | | | | some people the added cooking time is worth it for |
| faster, most prime rib recipes will have you slow | | | | the smoky flavor. |
| cook your prime rib at a lower temperature. This will | | | | Although slow roasting your prime rib is the desired |
| help the prime rib to get cooked evenly throughout. | | | | cooking method, for many people, there are those |
| To slow roast your prime rib, you will need an oven, | | | | who do not want to wait hours for their meat to |
| a roasting pan, and a thermometer. Most prime rib | | | | cook. Searing your meat by cooking it at a high |
| recipes will have you get the internal temperature of | | | | temperature (such as 500), will allow the meat to |
| your prime rib to a certain temperature, so it is a | | | | cook quickly. If you use one of the prime rib recipes |
| good idea to invest in a thermometer which is oven | | | | that call for searing, you can have your roast |
| safe and which can just stay in the meat while it is | | | | completed in probably about an hour. You will need a |
| cooking. Depending upon the thermometer, you can | | | | roasting pan and a thermometer for this option as |
| expect to pay anywhere from about $10 to over | | | | well. Although this is a faster method, some people |
| $50. Depending upon the size of your roast and how | | | | argue that some of the flavor is lost in the process. |
| well you want it cooked, this process may take | | | | |
| about two and a half to three or more hours. With | | | | When picking out prime rib, you are going to want to |
| prime rib, time is not as good of an indicator of when | | | | find some meat that has been aged properly. Most |
| your prime rib is done as the internal temperature. No | | | | people do not have the resources to age their prime |
| matter the method you use for your prime rib, it is | | | | rib properly themselves, so it is important that you |
| important that you know the proper internal | | | | find a butcher who has already done this. Often |
| temperature for your meat to be cooked properly. | | | | three or four weeks is the desired amount of aging, |
| For a more authentic slow-cooker method, your | | | | but some people will argue for six or eight weeks. |
| prime rib can even be cooked in a smoker barbecue. | | | | Since butchers sell their meat upon demand, if you |
| This will require a barbecue as well as a thermometer | | | | want meat that has aged longer, you may want to |
| to test the prime rib temperature. For some people, | | | | check with the butcher to see how long the prime rib |
| the smoked flavor that comes from using the | | | | has aged. Often they're selling it so fast that it's |
| smoker barbecue makes the meat taste even better | | | | impossible to keep it there more than about three |
| than it did slow cooking it in the oven. Of course, this | | | | weeks without turning away customers. |