Rock Salt Prime Rib

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 40 lbs rock salt
• 10 -15 lbs prime rib roast, brought to room tempeture (or standing rib roast)
• 2 -3 garlic cloves, crushed
• horseradish (to taste)
• pepper (to taste, we like a lot)
• 1 -2 cup water (to sprinkle the salt)

Recipe

• 1 get out a large aluminum throw away roasting pan (the deeper the beater) and 4 or 6 aluminum "ribbed" drip pans to make side-boards for the roasting pan, nails and a hammer.
• 2 preheat oven to 550 degrees.
• 3 mix crushed garlic, horseradish and pepper.
• 4 run over entire roast.
• 5 remove you oven rack and place on a strong table and place roaster on the rack.
• 6 standing drip pans on their side, line the roaster with the drip pans and pour 2 inches of roack salt in the roaster to help secure the drip pans.
• 7 sprinkle the two inches of rocksalt with one glass of water and pat down firmly.
• 8 place prime rib, fatty side up, in the center of the roaster, on top of the rock salt.
• 9 pour remaining rock salt on the roast making sure that all of the roast has at least one inch of rock salt covering it (you may need to use a nail or staple to join the drip pans if they appear to leak the rock salt).
• 10 sprinkle more water and pat down until there are no cracks!
• 11 place the roast rack on the lowest possible setting in your oven and cook 20 minutes per pound for rare (center will be rare-rare) or 21 minutes per pound medium rare (rare with a firm center).
• 12 remove the roast from the oven and take outside and place on concrete (wood cannot stand the heat!) and break open with a hammer.
• 13 remove the roast.
• 14 brush clinging salt from the roast with a vegetable brush.
• 15 juice will be extra red and the roast will be extremely juicy!
• 16 the rock salt will not make the meat salty, only in some instances on the outer "crispy" areas.
• 17 enjoy!