Finally Getting Out of Commifornia

[Someoldguy]

Folks have bought into the idea that a lean, chewy piece of animal carcass that * might * be marginally better for your long term health is the way to go.

As for me, give me a grain-fed fat marbled ribeye and baked potato floating in real butter and sour cream.

Grass fed beef. Bah! Fry potatos in Canola oil too, I expect. Nasty.

We're all gonna die. Damned if I'll torture myself getting there.

 

[GeoffR]

Folks have bought into the idea that a lean, chewy piece of animal carcass that * might * be marginally better for your long term health is the way to go.

As for me, give me a grain-fed fat marbled ribeye and baked potato floating in real better and sour cream.

Grass fed beef. Bah! Fry your potatos in Canola oil too, I expect. Nasty.

We're all gonna die. Damned if I'll torture myself getting there.

I agree.

I'm not particularly into chewy lean "carcass" either!

I think we should eat food as it comes. Like real milk as is comes out of the cow (not with all the fat removed). I like full cream butter. Indeed, full cream and sour cream also! I like chips (fries) but preferably cooked in olive oil. Just me...

As for grass fed beef, well, I grew up in New Zealand where there was lots of grass and no grain (50 odd years ago). So I think what I grew up with influences my tastes now. To me Australian grain fed beef is pale and lacks taste and substance. And is not much cheaper than grass fed, although there is stuff all grass here right now.

So yes, certainly when I'm in the States (and even here when I can get it), I do like a large slab of prime rib (however fed) with butter sauteed mushrooms with baked potatoe and lots of sour cream!

I can't wait to try the large slab of brisket that I will be cooking on my new smoker tomorrow! (first time I've tried it and very much experimental).

 

[jonkeil243]

OK. I can't easily lay my hands on a smoker but I am about to get myself a Weber BBQ. Do you have them in America? I'm not sure (yet - Google???) what a pellet smoker is.

Getting a piece of cow is not all that hard here either.

I think the critical thing is the smoking. I will look into that. Getting some oak may also be a problem but here we have other types of wood. I think hickory is available but not common. That is used with ribs I think.

But I'm willing to try something along those lines. I'm thinking a brisket roast of about 6 pounds would do me and my wife! If my boys get wind of it then I'll have to double that.

225 degF is not all that hot. I presume it needs to cook for a few hours. Like prime rib (another dish I'm rather partial to).

Geoff.

You could always build your own. It is not hard. Do some research on some designs. We tend to get creative but some simple large diameter pipe is all you need to start.

 

[jonkeil243]

Dean, just tell everyone if was cooked in a pit... They don't need to know...
Glad you had good results with the Treager. I am going to have to go pellet as well as I have yet to see an oak tree on my place here in Montana...

You know Steve you could always have some shipped in.

 

[jds holler]

I've recently been given a couple hundred pounds of hamburger from a cow that was killed in her ummm, wild state. Owner said she was just too mean and hard to handle, and after she damned near killed him, he used the rifle to settle her down.

He had a local processor butcher her and grind into hamburger "as is" with only the fat on the carcass. He, and mainly his wife didn't like the meat, and it would be my guess that probably 50% of folks wouldn't either. Me and my wife are in the 50% who do. That burger has FLAVOR. Besides paddies, we've made meat loaf's soups, stews, hobo dinners, tacos, -- you name it. It's gonna be a sad day when it's gone. jd

 

[Just Say Moe]

a really stupid law passed just to spite other states efforts to raise the age for gun purchases and

What is so stupid about it?

 

[nmkid]

Folks have bought into the idea that a lean, chewy piece of animal carcass that * might * be marginally better for your long term health is the way to go.

As for me, give me a grain-fed fat marbled ribeye and baked potato floating in real butter and sour cream.

Grass fed beef. Bah! Fry potatos in Canola oil too, I expect. Nasty.

We're all gonna die. Damned if I'll torture myself getting there.

I'm with you!
When I die, I want people to say, he was so sick!