Big-batch recipe · All meat
Braised chuck, salt and time
6 portions, about 52 g of protein in each. 10 minutes of hands-on work and 4 h 10 min of cooking.
Where it sits in the week
What this one is for
On the all meat track this is a Sunday cook — the long session, which covers Monday to Wednesday. Cooked once, portioned hot, and eaten across the days that session covers — on the seven-day plan it turns up at Monday lunch.
Two portions is about 104 g of protein — our own arithmetic on the figure above, not a separate measurement. Protein targets on this site are computed against goal weight or lean mass rather than scale weight, which is the whole of Real Fuel.
Part of the all meat meal plan, cooked in the two-session prep schedule.
What goes in
- 3 lb beef chuck, in one piece
- 2 tbsp salt, 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
- 2 cups beef stock or water
- Beef fat or butter for the sear
How
- Salt it the night before, uncovered in the fridge. Dry surface, hard sear, deep crust.
- Sear every face in a heavy pot until properly brown — 12 minutes, not 3.
- Stock in, lid on, 300F for 4 hours. Done is when a fork twists freely.
- Rest 20 minutes in the pot before you cut it, or the juice ends up on the board.
Keeping it: Fridge 4 days, freezer 3 months in its own liquid. Cold sliced chuck is a better lunch than reheated chuck.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. It is a plan written for general strength training in healthy adults, and any condition or medication you are managing outranks it.
Doing it cheaper
Swaps that apply to this one
From the all meat track's budget version, filtered to the ingredient this recipe actually uses.
| Instead of | Use | Why it is worth it |
|---|---|---|
| Steak and ground beef | Chuck, shoulder, brisket point, pork shoulder | Long-cooked cheap cuts eat better than a mid-grade steak and cost a third as much. |
The prices behind these swaps, with sources, are in the protein-per-dollar table.
The rest of the all meat week
3 more big-batch recipes on this track, plus the seven-day plan they feed.