Steak this weekend?

dalrymple23

Many years ago my son bought a five stuffed bird from Lidgates for Christmas. It was absolutely delicious.. It would have been rude to ask the price!!!!

On a poorer note, last weekend we had a dry aged sirloin steak from Aldi, which had been loitering in the freezer for a while. It was utterly scrummy. We frequently have their rib-eyes, which are equally good (they have been on special offer recently).

Also, we have one steak between the two of us - ample - which means we can indulge more often!

Lidl grass fed fillets are fantastic, at about £8 each I think.

They have Wagyu steak in Aldi, a sirloin steak is about £9.50 but they were on offer at £7.50 so I tried it and couldn’t tell any difference between it and their Aberdeen Angus 40 day aged sirloin steak.

I certainly wouldn't appreciate a Waygu steak at a high price I would cook a 12oz Rib Eye or Sirloin at home, in a decent restaurant steak is usually £30, we dont eat out often, 2 courses and a bottle of wine gets to £100 easily.
We both cook, so at home we can get a better meal for £20 or less.

There’s a farm just outside of dunblane that rears wagyu beef as well as Scottish breeds like AberdeenAngus and Highland cows.
It has a restaurant onsite and a website for orders .We took a visitor there a couple of years ago and he and my OH said the beef was terrific.
I don’t eat meat of any description so I only have their word for it.
It wasn,t out the way for price either
Think it was Blackwoods farm…but best to google my memory is shot

I hate steak so not me!

It takes 100 times more land to produce the same amount of beef protein as plant protein.

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I thought Wagyu steak came from New Zealand, probably because that was where I first saw it! I have had it, my dil who is the best cook ever, cooked it for us last time I was in Australia with them and it was absolutely out of this world! The flavour was like nothing I had ever tasted and the flavour and texture were out of this world! I have not eaten steak since!

I don't eat much meat, prefer fish. I've had a wagyu burger before and quite frankly it tasted like any other burger but I'm not a connoisseur. Don't think I'd ever pay £50 for one steak but I would be curious to know what it tasted like, how could it possibly taste good enough to spend that much?

Whitewavemark2

It takes 100 times more land to produce the same amount of beef protein as plant protein.

Have you been reading the Guardian again?

That's ridiculous you are saying that a 1 acre field of Soya Beans yielding around 1 ton of crop is equal to 100 acres of beef cattle. Plant protein is more efficient than livestock, in the UK we grow very little plant protein for human consumption, climate is not suitable - yet, if it gets hotter every year it might be.

The reality is that most cattle and sheep are kept on poor quality land that cannot grow protein crops, Range, Bush and Hill regions with very low stocking rates. 100 acres of pasture would feed over 100 beef cattle for a year thats a great deal more protein than 1 ton of Soya

Don’t know what Waugh steak is? Think it’s just a new fangled media fashion thingy like the dubai Ice-creams!!!
I like ‘skirt steak’ or in France it’s called bavette - not so fashionable but much cheaper!!! Everything is so expensive.

Staying at my DD’s I am shopping in the UK. At her local butcher I ordered a spider steak cut, I have to order it as it is not so popular here. I also ask for the stringy bits to be cut out, which my French butcher does naturally. Bizarrely, it is sold here by item not weight, but just over 300 gram it is just under £6 but is very tasteful.

I don't salivate over a steak, I'll have it occasionally. I 'd rather go to a really good fish restaurant, that serve fish other than the standard cod, haddock and place and cook it in other ways than deep fried and battered.

It's Japanese. I have eaten at a farmer friend's who has a herd in Suffolk. It was delicious but I certainly wouldn't pay those prices.

France is not good for beef. I find it's the restaurateurs who buy the best steaks. I've recent my had basse cote in a couple of local restaurant s. Absolutely fabulous. Supposed to be to share but easily feeds four, so we get foggy packets.

I have tried to get my farmer neighbour to get a Hereford or Aberdeen Angus bull to run with his bio pedigree veal Limousin herd. He gives me a withering look!!

Place Plaice

I have eaten steak but these days I don’t eat meat.
People may be surprised but synthetic is reall y no different!!

I don’t know why I am here. I’m a vegetarian. But the price of meat is shocking!

I’m not good at cooking steak (what am I good at) 🤷🏻‍♀️. It would be a waste.

I don't often buy steak to cook at home, preferring to eat it when we're out for a meal. My favourite is ribeye but so often when we see it in the supermarket it is cut far too thin.

I have had a rib eye steak at a local restaurant and it was delicious for £16. I would feel £60 for a steak would be too much and think how I could of used the money differently

The best steak I've ever had was in Maderia it came from the Azores where a very high rainfall makes beef production very efficient. We don't see any of it here Portugal keeps it all for themselves

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Genuine Wagu only comes from a specific part of Japan and is certified.
Most 'Wagu' sold here - in shops or online or in 'ordinary' restaurants - is more 'in the style of' and would be British or Australian**

I've had it in restaurants and have bought it but wasn't over impressed. There's isn't anything I've tasted that beats a British Aberdeen Angus ribeye with an accompaniment of Bernaise!!

** Best to avoid Australian or American beef as it's pumped full of hormones. Illegal here.
Keep to British or Argentinian.
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The only time I’ve had wagyu steak was in Singapore, some years ago. Way too pricy here.

I've had wagyu steak at a business dinner (paid for by someone else!). It was absolutely delicious and I'm glad I was able to try it.

I did once buy some from Aldi and although it was nice it wasn't anything like the restaurant offering.

The wagyu in British supermarkets is not Grade A Japanese. I believe some of the online meat suppliers stock Japanese - Dukes Farm I think does.

I'm more than happy with my Aldi rib eye - and that's only on "treat" days.

I can't say I would spend a lot, but I do like steak. Can't eat it on my own because of previous choking experience at my daughter's house. She was ready to do that special manoeuvre as I had gone quite a while not able to breathe properly.
There was a special offer at the Co op here recently where members could buy a large piece of steak and some sweet potato fries for just £4. I bought some for my son in law. He said it was very tasty