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His Dutch oven lesson starts with choosing the beef and makes room for a freezing-weather chuck wagon memory.
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The Best Cowboy Beef Stew You'll Ever Make (2 Secret Ingredients)
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- 0:14Rollins recommends whole chuck roast over pre-cut stew meat so he can choose the fat and marbling.
- 3:32He sears the flour-dredged beef in bacon grease in an enameled Dutch oven.
- 5:55Beef stock, stewed tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, thyme and red wine form the cooking liquid.
- 7:58During the simmer, he recalls serving stew to cowboys in freezing Palo Duro Canyon weather.
- 11:00Potatoes, carrots, pearl onions and bay leaves go in; he identifies wine and pearl onions as his special additions.
- 13:00He serves and tastes the finished stew with cornbread, then salutes veterans.
Kent Rollins would rather cut up a whole chuck roast than buy a package of stew meat. He wants to choose the fat and marbling himself, a practical starting point for a pot that will spend a good while simmering outdoors.
In "The Best Cowboy Beef Stew You'll Ever Make (2 Secret Ingredients)", the promised extras are red wine and pearl onions. The wine goes in with beef stock, stewed tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce and fresh thyme. The onions arrive later, alongside red-skin potatoes, carrots and bay leaves, after the beef has had roughly an hour to cook.
Before any of that, Rollins dredges the seasoned beef in flour and sears it in bacon grease in an enameled Dutch oven. At his outdoor stove, Bertha, he makes the distinction explicit: "It's not just hot oil, it's bacon grease."
The tutorial has drawn nearly a million views since its October 21 release, but the pauses are part of what it offers. While the pot simmers, Rollins recalls cooking stew for cowboys in Palo Duro Canyon during freezing weather in 2001. His remembered invitation to dinner: "And I said, 'Eat till it thaws you out.'"
Viewers bring their own accompaniments to the conversation. One describes timing homemade bread so it can cool before the stew is ready; another prefers a biscuit. Others ask for more cowboy stories or recognize something resembling the camp stew in Red Dead Redemption. Rollins serves his own bowl with a slice of cornbread.
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When I make stew I also get homemade bread going in the bread machine, timing it so the bread is ready about an hour before the stew's done, and has a little time to rest and cool. Nothing like stew with a thick slice of homemade bread on a chilly night.
@CatWhiskeringSee it on YouTubeLooks like the Red Dead Redemption stew! So good!
@AgentXRifleSee it on YouTubeLove the old cowboy stories! Keep peppering them in!
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Stew is comfort in a pot.
@wdwtx2.0See it on YouTubeI like a biscuit with stew …. But thankful for anything!
@sstephenson24See it on YouTubeA real chef. No measuring, just adding the amount your heart tells you.
@ilovetacos210See it on YouTubeThis Man needs to Make audiobooks I can listen to him talk all day
@TheMDelaney45See it on YouTubeNice timing. Was talking to a friend this morning that it’s now becoming beef stew season. My absolute favorite. Amazing looking beef stew Cowboy .
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Which onions are one of Kent's two special additions to this stew?
Kent identifies pearl onions and a little red wine as the stew's two special additions.