I LOVE prime beef

[spidey07]

The strip steak is normally a tougher cut out of the top steaks. It's a fine cut don't get me wrong, but nothing like the melt you get from the rib eye.

But DAMN! Cook you up a strip prime grade and it's like another world in melt in your mouth goodness. The flavor and texture difference between a prime strip and non-prime strip is probably the most marked I can tell.

It's hard to go back from prime, it really, really is when you're cooking it yourself.

 

[SandEagle]

you sound like a beefwalker

 

[ussfletcher]

Next time go for a Porterhouse, the king of steaks.

 

[PaperclipGod]

I only eat tenderloin. Everything else just tastes so inferior that I just can't justify spending money on it.

Also, isn't most beef in grocery stores these days prime, except for the really gristly cuts?

 

[GoSharks]

Also, isn't most beef in grocery stores these days prime, except for the really gristly cuts?

Most beef in grocery stores is Select.

 

[PaperclipGod]

Most beef in grocery stores is Select.

 

[moshquerade]

prime au jus?

 

[HAL9000]

I've always wondered what Americans meant by "prime beef", thanks for reminding me so I could look it up.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Prime, bulk beef? Alternator sized?

 

[Kirby]

Next time go for a Porterhouse, the king of steaks.

Overpriced NY strip and filet, if you ask me. Both are too lean IMO.

I'll take a nice marlbed, bone-in ribeye any day of the week.

Although the best beef I've ever had was in Seoul, yukhoe. I didn't get a chance to try wagyu in Japan though. Maybe next time.

 

[MovingTarget]

Prime, bulk beef? Alternator sized?

Inquiring minds want to know...

 

[Jadow]

try dry aged prime sometime, its the best.

 

[BUTCH1]

Most beef in grocery stores is Select.

Not really, out of the 3 big chains around here (Publix, Winn-Dixie, Food lion) only Food lion uses select grade, only difference is less marbling than choice/prime. OP, where do you buy your meat at a specialty store?, prime grade usually makes it's way to the restaurant trade, (it's pricey) and BTW the strip and rib eye are both loin cuts, as you get further down the loin the fat vein increases (where rib eye comes from).

 

[BUTCH1]

I only eat tenderloin. Everything else just tastes so inferior that I just can't justify spending money on it.

Also, isn't most beef in grocery stores these days prime, except for the really gristly cuts?

Shens, who can afford $16lb steaks every time around and prime is RARELY found in grocery stores, it's very expensive..

 

[KillerCharlie]

You know what pisses me off? When they sell by brand instead of grading.

I can't stand all the "black angus" commercials or grocery stores like safeway that sell "rancher's reserve" but don't tell you what the grade is. That way they can make you think you're buying something better than you are.

 

[ussfletcher]

Overpriced NY strip and filet, if you ask me. Both are too lean IMO.

I'll take a nice marlbed, bone-in ribeye any day of the week.

Although the best beef I've ever had was in Seoul, yukhoe. I didn't get a chance to try wagyu in Japan though. Maybe next time.

Its all about cooking it hot and quick. The inside should still red, juicy, and delicious.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Most beef in grocery stores is Select.

Not really, out of the 3 big chains around here (Publix, Winn-Dixie, Food lion) only Food lion uses select grade, only difference is less marbling than choice/prime. OP, where do you buy your meat at a specialty store?, prime grade usually makes it's way to the restaurant trade, (it's pricey) and BTW the strip and rib eye are both loin cuts, as you get further down the loin the fat vein increases (where rib eye comes from).

GoSharks is correct. Very few grocery stores even list the grade anymore. In general, beef is bred leaner today and few restaurants today use 'Prime.' Butch1, if your local store are actually labeling and selling choice/prime, count yourself lucky as you are in the minority.

 

[ultimatebob]

You cruel bastards... now I have a hankering for a tasty dry aged prime steak.

I think that it's time for a road trip to Peter Luger!

 

[HAL9000]

You cruel bastards... now I have a hankering for a tasty dry aged prime steak.

I think that it's time for a road trip to Peter Luger!

Dry?! D:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Dry?! D:

Yes, as opposed to being cryovacced.

 

[JS80]

Wagyu strip *DROOL*

 

[HAL9000]

Yes, as opposed to being cryovacced.

Ahhh. OK.

 

[ponyo]

GoSharks is correct. Very few grocery stores even list the grade anymore. In general, beef is bred leaner today and few restaurants today use 'Prime.' Butch1, if your local store are actually labeling and selling choice/prime, count yourself lucky as you are in the minority.

Grocery stores that list grade around me: Publix, Kroger, Target. I don't know about Walmart. Never looked.

But I buy 99% of my meat from Costco. All Costco meats are Choice grade except small section of blue marked Prime grade.

 

[spidey07]

Grocery stores that list grade around me: Publix, Kroger, Target. I don't know about Walmart. Never looked.

But I buy 99% of my meat from Costco. All Costco meats are Choice grade except small section of blue marked Prime grade.

And that is where I'm getting my prime beef from. I have to go to my butcher with a larger cut to get it I'll go through every one of them to find the best looking steaks.

My main point is the strip is best served by prime. For me and my wife it's the biggest difference in marbling, texture, everything. Nothing makes her eyes roll back like a perfectly cooked prime strip steak.

The difference is most pronounced with the strip is what I'm discovering. The ribeye is still out of this world, but the difference with the strip is....

drooooooooooooool...........

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Publix, Winn Dixie, SweetBay, Target, Costco, Sam's, and BJ's all list grades on their beef. I've had the Prime cuts from Costco, both the strip and the ribeye, and didn't feel that either was enough of an improvement over their Choice cuts to justify the price premium.

There is a Greenwise Publix in downtown Tampa that occassionally sells Wagyu strip steaks for slightly north of $40/lb. Grilled a couple of the Waygu strips this year for my birthday. I was a little dubious paying that much for steaks but holy mother of god they were amazing.