MadPick wrote:
Well, I made yakisoba tonight. I cut the beef across the grain, relatively thin but not super-thin, and just browned it quickly in the wok.
And y'know, it's pretty good. Not falling-apart tender by any means, but it tasted good and I wouldn't have called it tough at all. No complaints here!
After the quick cook - I would have have been real curious as to toughness when really deep browned, almost crispy. I did some sirloin carne asada beef tonight which does need a hard longer sear, somewhat crispy. It was about nickel (.05$ coin) thickness and soaked with dry ancho chiles and straight tequila all day. Point is the longer cooked pieces were the most tender.