How to best store a rib of Beef till Boxing Day?

[tight fart]

How would you store a rib of beef, it's arrived vacuum packed and is at least 28 day aged.
Wife says leave in fridge as is and remove day before cooking.
I'm thinking remove from vac pack and wrap in clean cotton towels. Store in fringe.
We do have a spare fridge with nothing else in to use?

[Type R Tom]

tight fart said:

How would you store a rib of beef, it's arrived vacuum packed and is at least 28 day aged.
Wife says leave in fridge as is and remove day before cooking.
I'm thinking remove from vac pack and wrap in clean cotton towels. Store in fringe.
We do have a spare fridge with nothing else in to use?

I don't know if it's the right thing to do but I like to unwrap beef and leave it to "dry" in the fridge for 24h before eating. Helps with a nice crust.

[21TonyK]

Leave it vac packed until 48 hours ahead then unpack, put it on a rack and keep it in the fridge.

[ChrisnChris]

What about if it isn't vac packed?

[21TonyK]

Then you need to clean the fridge out properly, very loosely cover with grease proof paper and try to circulate the air fairly regularly.

[ChrisnChris]

By circulating the air, do you mean simply opening the door?
If it makes any difference it'll be in my outside beer fridge, so the air will be fresh and cool, not from a hot kitchen.

[21TonyK]

Yeah, just change the air at least once a day.

[Pete Franklin]

I would leave it uncovered in the fridge for up to a week. The drier the better for the outside in my opinion.