Steaks onLine

[Manton]

Try Bryan's, it is great.

I have another secret source, great beef at low, low prices, but I am not telling.

 

[romafan]

stop buying your meat at the grocery store. find a decent butcher....

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by romafan

stop buying your meat at the grocery store. find a decent butcher....

Florence Meat market, end of story.

 

[Connemara]

Ed knows a lot about meat markets in Chelsea.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Ed knows a lot about meat markets in Chelsea.

Even better, it's in the Meatpacking district.

 

[romafan]

Florence is on Jones St. - that the Village....

 

[Manton]

I am going to go visit this place after my next cooking class.

 

[voxsartoria]

Brandt offers regular folks a limited selection, but it is pretty damn good beef:

http://www.brandtbeef.com/


- B

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Brandt offers regular folks a limited selection, but it is pretty damn good beef:

http://www.brandtbeef.com/


- B

Yeah, but if I am going to order online, I would prefer to get grass fed, which I cannot get locally.

 

[j]

Originally Posted by atomicranch

Or, as unjung suggests, buy a cow. It isn't hard to find a farm that offers grass-fed that will sell you one.
I don't know why but this is making me totally crack up. The act of typing in "cow" in a for sale search engine... weird. http://seattle.craigslist.org/search/grd?query=cow Turns out some of them are pretty cheap... no idea what kind makes good steaks though.

 

[Tarmac]

Originally Posted by edmorel

A steak gourmand once told me that one of the best values in steaks is the Costco "Prime" stuff that they have on their site and in some stores. I know it sounds like a joke but this guy really knows his stuff.
Their steaks are really good. As good as I have had for normal, non-boutique type steaks. I don't know how they keep it fresh, because at the end of the day, they don't seem to have sold all their steaks, yet the next day, they have new steaks out and they are clearly not a day old.

Originally Posted by Astan

how exactly would you check the marbling if you buy online. theres so much you would lose out on. its not like clothes its something you really need to view in person to evaluated whether you should buy it or not. go to a specialty butcher they will have some great choices i think you'd be surprised.
This is exactly why I would avoid buying online, unless they have a guaranteed reputation like Lobel's. I can go to to the grocery store and choose between a decadent marbled ribeye and a tough, nearly all red one, it's a big difference.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Manton

Yeah, but if I am going to order online, I would prefer to get grass fed, which I cannot get locally.

Nearly all beef cattle are "grass fed." How the final fattening comes in the feedlot can range all over the map.

I really concentrated on sampling a wide range of the best grass fed beef in the world, which I feel is raised in Argentina, when I was there last year. I came away from that concluding that when it came to steak, each form of finishing has its merit and demerits.

The Brandt beef is finished very carefully, with lots of attention to quality control. I think that is an important factor in how good the meat is.

I'm surprised you can't get grass fed beef locally...they're relatively common in the supermarkets here, e.g., the monopoly Whole Foods.

- B

 

[Manton]

The closest Whole Foods to me is in White Plains and I don't get there that often. In DC I shopped there a lot, and they always had grass fed beef.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Prather Ranch.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Prather Ranch.

Do you like them better than Bryan's?