How to Cut the Cooking String for Flank Steak

Video Transcript

"So now we got our roulade ready to go and it is time to use the string to tie it and hold it all together. But first I want to tell you a little bit about cooking string. This here you see is cooking string and I know it looks like normal twine that you can probably find at the hardware store but that twine is typically treated with all kinds of chemicals and thing you don't want to put into your body. So you want to make sure whatever you do whenever you are going to go purchase cooking string that you find string that is made specially for cooking and or consuming. Not that you are going to eat it but you want to make sure there is no chemicals on it. So keep that in mind and that is cooking string. I always keep things of this on hand and I use it all the time. When I use it to roll up my roulade I get more then what I think I'm going to need that way I don't run out in the middle of tying roulade. Cause I have done that plenty of times and that is not fun either. I got a good amount of sting here to work with as you can see here that is about 2 yards there. This is what I'm going to use to tie up my roulade. "