Slow Roasted Beef - America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook

Page 348 from America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook.  Here is how this is going to go down.  I'm going to rate the recipe based on the following criteria:  Execution of recipe, ease of ingredients, taste.  Execution and ingredients will be weighted equally on a scale from 0-5.  Taste will be rated on a scale from 0-10.  0 is the lowest score, 20 is the highest.

Ease of Ingredients: (Availability is ranked based on likelihood that ingredient is already typically stocked in a kitchen.  Ranking is Common/Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare)

Here's the ingredient list:

Boneless Beef Roast - Common
Pepper - Common

Salt - Common
Vegetable Oil - Common

If you have the meat in the freezer, you're pretty much set.  I do enjoy the fact that this particular book understands that beef is quite tasty in itself and doesn't need a lot of stuff added to it to make it better.  I noticed other recipes in the book that calls for some salt, pepper, and oil and that's it.  No complaints here.  5/5

Ease of Execution (Techniques/Tools used):

Pan-Sear
Oven-Roasting

Baker's twine is recommended to keep the roast a uniform size and thickness.  I didn't have baker's twine, went without it, did just fine.  Aside from that, give the beef a pan sear, put it in the oven, then tent with foil for twenty minutes after it's done in the oven to let the juices soak in.  The recommended times were just right, The beef finished a beautiful medium temp, nice and red all over.  5/5

Taste

The beef was surprisingly tender.  I'm spoiled by the tenderness of a good ribeye or NY strip steak and have low regard for roasts.  I remarked to the wife that the roast was just as tender and flavorful as a steak, more tender than a recent sirloin I enjoyed from the restaurant.  The beef flavor shined through, since there wasn't any other ingredient to try and mask the beef flavor.  I love beef, it tastes excellent on its own.  Only complaint was that the salt and pepper didn't adhere to the steak as well from the sear.  9/10

Total Score: 19/20 (****3/4)