OT cooking? A cheap prime cut vs. an expensive choice cut

micky · 2023-01-29T19:31:09+00:00

OT? A cheap prime cut vs. an expensive choice cutI've always been satisfied with the meat they sell at the store, until Igot back from my long trip. I'd eaten meat at restaurants and take-outson the trip, but not cooked any myself. The piece I got when I was homewas delicious. And I've spent the last 8 months buying the same cutagain and it's never been as tender. So I thought, maybe they accidentally gave me some prime beef instead ofchoice like it was labeled. So I thought, lets go buy some choice beef and see if it is worth theextra money and maybe extra effort to get. So I'm looking online, and by golly there is, not surprisingly I gues,prime chuck pot roast. I don't remember what the next more expensiveroast is, but I can find out at the store. Is a more expensive choicecut still goign to be not as tender as a cheap prime cut?As an aside, most of the angus meat I see has no grade on it, for somereason I can only speculate... They spend time advertising angus andthink that is enough to sell it, and they don't have to say what gradeit is. But at Target once I saw choice angus beef. That one examplewasn't very tender, but one is an insufficient sample and could havebeen graded wrong.

Jan 29, 2023 Last reply: 3 years ago 61 Replies

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I found another page of their page that is encouraging. It's not just "steps", it's standards:

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They call it Treuth Reserve:

Treuth Reserve Beef is hand selected at the upper end of Choice spectrum with abundant marbling and a true tenderness to the cut. As our signature box beef, we take great pride in the consistency of our product from size to quality by following a rigid 9 step process that determines Treuth Reserve.

As an outcome to our beef program, Treuth Reserve is as close to Prime Beef as Choice Beef will allow.

The criteria in which we take:

1 85% Solid Black hair coat 2 High abundance of fine textured marbling 3 10-16 inch rib eye 4 Bright red color 5 Little to none large fat veins 6 Free of capillary ruptures 7 Under 30 months of age 8 White fat covering under 1 inch 9 No ossification of bone structure

They get 4.8 stars on 266 votes, so customers are satisfied. ---