Recipes

• You can test how hot a pan is by putting a drop of water on it. It should sizzle immediately when touching the pan.
• Air fryers are basically mandatory on this diet.
• You can tell a pan or grill is hot enough if the meat sizzles when it touches it. If there’s no sizzling, remove the meat and heat the pan or grill up more.
• Don’t stir or flip too often or you’ll end up with grey meat. You want to let the steak/burger sit. 
• When using a meat thermometer make sure it’s in the middle of your meat.
• Slow-cooked meats can have high histamines. High histamines cause problems for many people, especially when first beginning the diet. Some of the symptoms are digestion problems, fatigue, headaches, inflammation, etc.

Buy unaged meat if you’re experiencing histamine intolerance after the first 6 weeks. Most meat you buy from the grocery store is aged for at least a couple of weeks. The aging of the meat. Lamb and veal are lower in histamine levels. Histamine intolerance might present as a runny nose, facial flushing, stuffy nose, digestive distress, or brain fog after eating. BetterFed Beef offers unaged meat.

Fanciest/tastiest cuts:

• Ribeye steaks are the most tender and fattiest steak
• Strip loin or New York Strips are leaner but still have a good amount of fat (my favorite)
• Tenderloin is extremely lean and tender (not ideal for this diet but still very tasty)
• Tomahawks are large ribeyes with a bone. Very tasty. 
• Porterhouse is a strip loin with a tenderloin and a bone in the middle. Very tasty. 
• Lamb chops and lamb ribs - fatty, generally less aged and very tasty 
• Lamb loins - small lamb T-bone steaks. Tasty. 

• Brisket - has a huge fat cap and is great in the oven or bbq 
• Chuck roast - basically a cheaper ribeye-like roast. Very good
• Picanha - kinda like brisket - tasty good for bbq-ing

• Round roast - lean - best for jerky or Crispy Things
• Lamb shank - a lamb leg bone - best to pressure cook for Crispy Things 
• Lamb leg roast - great for Crispy Things

• An air fryer. Ideally the Ninja XL. It goes up to 450 degrees and will make this diet possible. Seriously invest in this. If there’s one thing you buy, buy this. 
• A pressure cooker. I use the 8qt Instant Pot.
• If you can only afford one thing - buy an Instant Pot/air fryer combo like this. 
• Cast-iron frying pans (wash these with soap when you get them and then season yourself with tallow. Do not wash with soap after the first wash - these can just be rinsed with hot water after cooking and reused)
• A blender. I use a vitamix for pâté. Here’s a less expensive one too. 
• Meat thermometer. Like this. 
• Baking tray 
• Dehydrator - a better metal one and a less expensive option.

• Redmond’s realsalt is quite tasty and even a bit sweet from ancient salt mines in Utah. 
• Maldon is flakey white salt from Maldon UK. 
• Make sure your salt doesn’t have added ingredients!!