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Shredded pork will be good with this meat. Got a killer recipe if u want.

Going to be delicious I bet! Not sure if $3.49/lb is a great deal. The local Kroger was practically dumping many good looking cuts of pork for $0.79/lb for months this year.

$3.48 is an excellent deal some moron at the store mislabeled Outside Skirt Steak as Pork Belly.


There were about a 5 packs out of about 20 mislabeled. I showed these to the Manager just to show him, he said he would fix it, and told me if I wanted to purchase it at that price I could. so I took it. They wanted $14.99 a lb for it.

If I'm going to spend that kind of coin on Meat, I wont be buying utility meat from the immigrant grocery store. I'll go to a quality butcher or dare I say Publix. (Which I avoid because of their high hefty prices.) But I would pay $14.99 lb at Publix, if that were the going price, because they have meat that has better marbling than Bravo now Key Foods.

Tenpoundbass says

the store mislabeled Outside Skirt Steak as Pork Belly

Aah, I missed that detail. Serendipity in the meat department!

I do the bulk of my food shopping at the local Kroger low end store. It's the reliably cheapest store that doesn't have a sombrero or chili pepper in the font of their sign lettering. Meat department is hit or miss. Some days it looks like the unwanted and spoiled cuts from every other store in the region all priced at top dollar, other times it's brimming with fresh and desirable cuts at very competitive prices. Love it when ribeye roasts go on sale $2.99/lb!

Why TF is the production date DDMMYYYY while the use by date is MMDDYYYY format on the same label?

Automan Empire says

Why TF is the production date DDMMYYYY

October 16 production date, they do have to age the beef for a month. I think that production date was the date of the cow hanging in the cooler not the date the side of beef was butchered.

Automan Empire says

Love it when ribeye roasts go on sale $2.99/lb!

Before Corona fucked up supply lines, I had another immigrant grocer I went to that I drove 4 miles to get to. I used to go every Saturday morning before 10am.
They would have Rib Eyes that were like $3.99 or even $2.99 2 inch thick Tomahawk steaks. $4.99 1 1/2 NY Strip Steaks, and $3.99 half inch thick TBone steaks.
I would load up the cart with huge $5.00 Ribeye Tomahawk steaks, $5.00 two pack NY Strip Steaks. and $7.00 twin packs of TBone steaks.

I would say that only 10% of the time it was tough hard lean meat. Most of the times it had decent marbling and good tender meat.

Since Corona all of those cuts are $7.99 lb on average Wich turns out to be $10 to $15 per pack I used to get for 1/3 of that. I hope they'll return one day.

Tomahawk steaks are really awesome to serve to guests. Great presentation. I'll only buy that much bone on sale though, no matter how good the taste.

Ever buy from Omaha Steaks? Their national marketing is great, steaks seem pretty average at a top-of-premium price when someone BBQd some.

Automan Empire says

Tomahawk steaks are really awesome to serve to guests. Great presentation.

A good one will serve a family like a small roast.

6 or 7 inch round and 2 inches thick, on the bone, grilled to med perfection, then slice 1/4 to 3/16 inch slices after it rests.

3 or 4 slices each with the right sides and salad is more than enough.

Automan Empire says

Ever buy from Omaha Steaks?

Don't. I've received it as a gift for years now around xmas from a friend. I finally told them to stop and get me a gift card from the local butcher if you're going to give out meat (lol) as a gift. Omaha is not good quality. It is usable, but as you say, their marketing is great and that's about it.

outside skirt is the most amazingly flavorful cut on the cow.

Nice TPB!!

WookieMan says

Don't. I've received it as a gift for years

Heh... like Hickory Farms products and See's Candies, one of those things people always buy for and receive from someone else, never for themselves.

Fortwaynemobile says

Shredded pork will be good with this meat. Got a killer recipe if u want.

What's the recipe??

WookieMan says

Omaha is not good quality.

It's shit. I made the mistake of buying it for me Dad once.

Fortwaynemobile says

Shredded pork will be good with this meat. Got a killer recipe if u want.

Yeah what's the recipe. I meant to ask earlier if you actually had a pulled pork recipe for some Pork Belly.

I used to make Char Ciu out of Pork Belly, you roast it low and slow until all of the fat renders out, then you separate the meat strips from what's left of the fat a collagen lattice.
Then you cut it up in strips for wanton soup or dice for fried rice and slices for egg foo young.
I refer to it as Chinese Bacon.

It's this recipe. Just don't add coffee. Very delicious.

https://justcook.butcherbox.com/smoky-coffee-rubbed-pulled-pork/

If you get it with the skin you can make chicharrones Colombian style and just add lemon ..so good!