Just bought a meat slicer. Cuts of meat for hot pot / shabu shabu?

[fuzzybabybunny]

Just bought a meat slicer with a non-serrated blade addition.

I'm looking for some recommendations on cuts of meat I should use for hot pot. A lot of places recommend rib eye, but that's too expensive. Any cheaper cuts that would work just as well?

I'm thinking:

- beef tongue - how do you remove the skin before slicing? Do you semi-freeze it and then shave off the skin with a sharp knife?

- would beef chuck be ok?

- beef round seems like it wouldn't have enough marbling, right?

- lamb shoulder

- pork belly

- pork sirloin and tenderloin?

 

[Mayne]

I had to look up shabu shabu...that sounds like fun.

I guess you'll have to experiment...atleast you will have fun doing it.

 

[ponyo]

Ribeye is only slightly more expensive than beef tongue. Beef tongue is one of the more expensive cuts of beef. Perhaps you were thinking of beef cheeks.

If you want something cheap, brisket is going to be the cheapest. It's not going to be melt in your mouth like ribeye or tenderloin. If you want that you'll just have to pay up. Top sirloin is good compromise and you can find USDA Prime for about $5 /lb wholesale. Prime brisket should be about $2.50 /lb and choice ribeye around $7 /lb. Beef tongue is about $6 /lb.

 

[tortoise]

recommendations on cuts of meat I should use for hot pot

Section turkey franks with a hot dog slicer from Walmart . . video.

 

[ElFenix]

eye of round should be fine. you don't need a lot of marbling since you're slicing so thin.