Misty Gully Dry Age Steak Bags

Misty Gully’s Banquet Bags feature award-winning Danish technology that allow you to safely dry age steak, smallgoods and salami safely and quickly without the need of expensive dry ageing chambers or commercial setups. All you need is a fridge and a vacuum sealer!

The material of the bag creates a bond with the natural proteins in the meat, allowing for moisture and oxygen exchange while ensuring the ageing process is free from risk of contamination.

Overview

In years gone by, dry aged beef was the norm. Beef carcasses were allowed to hang in a locker for a few weeks after slaughter to become more tender and flavourful. During this dry ageing process, moisture evaporates from the meat creating an improved flavour, highlighted by a stronger and more defined beef taste, along with delicate notes of butter and nuts. The meat’s natural enzymes break down the fibrous connective tissue in the muscle thereby also tenderizing it.

Some current dry ageing techniques may have a positive impact on flavour, tenderness and overall eating qualities, but today, specialized and expensive facilities and equipment have traditionally been required to ensure the process is able to be replicated ensuring modern food safety and consistent quality standards are met.

 

Misty Gully Banquet Bags are a modern game changer. The specialized technology of the dry ageing bags allows beef to age and achieve the same bold beefy flavours and creamy textures from traditional open-air dry ageing methods, whilst being safe, simple to use and extremely economical.

Dry ageing in bags provides for a significantly different end product than wet ageing in Cryovac bags. When wet ageing, the meat is vacuum sealed in moisture and oxygen impermeable bags. The beef will wet age in its own juices and there can be some benefits to tenderness that can be achieved in this process, however the bold flavour and texture characteristics achieved from dry ageing cannot be replicated.

 

Product Specifications

Product Description: MISTY GULLY DRY AGE STEAK BANQUET BAGS feature award winning Danish technology that allows for the safest and easiest way for you to dry age your own steak at home. The material of the bag creates a bond with the natural proteins in meat, allowing for moisture release and oxygen exchange free from risk of contamination.

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Country of Origin: Denmark

Storage: Clean, dry conditions at ambient temperatures below 25c and 75% relative humidity.

Lay flat size: 50-600 mm – tolerance ±1 mm

Calibre: 32-380 mm

Wall thickness: 40-80μ

Temperature: -40°C – 140°C

Density: Typical Value 1.04 g/cm³ Standard: ISO R1183

Melting Point: 170°C Standard: ASTM D 3418

Water Vapor All 50μ thickness 7c /50% RH g/m2/24 h:  920

Oxygen transmission 7c /50% RH – ccm/24 h: 660

                                   23c /50% RH – g/m2/24: 1920

Bag Sizes:

Small: 350x350mm
Medium: 300x600mm
Large: 400x800mm

Additional Information: Banquet Bags are a non-edible product used in the Food Industry.

Banquet Bags are not a packaging material. They enable a dry ageing process which improves safety and yields, closed against unwanted air-born bacteria.

How To Use – Instructions

Commercial process:

·        Select a cut such as boneless strip loin or rib and place it in a Misty Gully Banquet Bag.

·        Use a snorkel type or chamber type vacuum heat sealer to draw the air out of the bag and seal the bag. In order for the bag to work effectively, ensure about 70% of the meat is in contact with the bag.

·        Carefully place the meat that has been sealed in the Banquet Bag onto a wire rack in a well-ventilated refrigerator (the aging meat must have good airflow around it to age properly).

·        It is best to lay the meat side down and the fat side up.

·        During the first week a bond will form between the meat and the bag and the colour of the meat will darken.

·        The meat should be aged for a minimum of 21 days. During this ageing period the meat will lose about 10 % in weight. The ageing process can be extended as much as the user wants, but usually best results are achieved after around 28-35 days.

·        After the desired aging period is completed, the meat can be taken out of the bag and the outer hardened surface must be trimmed before cutting it into steaks.

·        The end product should have a distinct smell of fresh meat. This should be in stark contrast to wet-aged meat which is characterized by a distinct lack of smell.

·        The taste of the cooked beef is also different. Beef packed in a Misty Gully Banquet Bag has a unique taste, characterised by strong beef flavour, with buttery and nutty undertones. The fat, if present, especially has the taste of the air-dried beef.

Wet aged beef has a lack of flavour and has an elastic fat crust.

 

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Benefits

Safety – Banquet Bags create a unique micro-climate and microbiologically safe environment for each product, reducing the risks from cross contamination. When the bag bonds with the meat, risks from external bacteria and organisms coming into contact with the product are also eliminated.

Yield is improved through consistency and simplicity. The technology of the bags that allow for the moisture and oxygen exchange lead to even ageing times and better yield optimization.

Flavour – the natural flavours from the meat are enhanced and improved, with further butter and nut like characteristics becoming present – desirable quality in dry aged meat.

Texture – natural enzymatic activities improves the tenderness of meat aged using Misty Gully Banquet Bags.

Smell – meat aged in Banquet Bags is characterised by having an attractive fresh smell, in stark contrast with wet-aged meats, which can lack small or smell unpleasant.

Economy – dry ageing meat in Misty Gully Banquet Bags significantly upgrades the quality and marketability in assisting to create a desirable and marketable premium end product. Furthermore, the bags are extremely economical when compared to expensive dry ageing facilities and other dry curing chambers on the market.

Simplicity – Misty Gully Banquet Bags are easy to use. Traditional air-dry ageing methods can require more careful monitoring and control. The process is faster and yield optimization is improved as Banquet Bags ensure equal dry ageing for every product.

 

Other Banquet Bag Products

Charcuterie Bags – Misty Gully Banquet Bags are also available in a Salumi/Charcuterie version which allow for the safe production of small goods year-round, with improved safety, yields and other benefits. Bags are thinner than the dry age steak variety, allowing for smoke to permeate through the bags and flavour the meat.

Salami Casings – the same technology is applied to the salami casings, allowing for the ageing process of salami to be safely controlled in a refrigerator.