My goodness,,,,goes on and on about it aye,,do they still PM each other in the dark?

This is no guarantee. There are some places that do deals with certain growers and are excellent. Over the years I have been in the cooler of some and they are buying the exact same boxes of meat, ibp for example, as every other grocery store in the world. Beef processing is dominated by a couple massive companies.

I had a bowl of that a few weeks ago and it wasn't bad.

Ratz would argue that you haven't tried his......

I just buy whole tenderloins and cut them into 10 steaks and vacuum seal them. Been getting them for 12.99.

They say the quality of the overall herd has improved. Remember the the whole cow is graded not the individual cuts. It have had some awful prime at times and some really good choice if you eyeball them. [/quote]

This is the case. The past three decades have brought incredible progress when it comes to beef quality and consistency. Last year, CattleFax reported nearly 80% of the U.S. beef supply graded Choice and Prime.

Ratz’s famous red?

Wendys Chili for the win!

We have one the next town over. The meat is the best I've had in years. Cut doesn't matter rmuch. It's all superior to the grocery store meat. In both tenderness and flavor.
The town has less than 2000 people. The meat market sits smack in the middle of an old neighborhood. Grandfathered in. You pull up and the cattle are fenced in behind the building. Which one would expect at a butcher. It just cracks me up that it's in the middle of a neighborhood. The owners are always super nice also.

Each cut has it's plus and minuses... Medium rare please... Dan

When I was little, my grandpa used to go pick up meat at the butchers on Saturdays and the butcher would let us go in the back and punch on the sides of hanging beef just like Rocky

I would suspect that a $5 on sale ribeye would taste better than a $20 NY strip. Just a better cut.

yes sir. Best steak off the cow.

I absolutely agree...

The ribeye is the king of steaks. That's all there is to it.

I've never met a well-done filet man, but you know they're out there. Find that son-of-a-gun and science that dude out. There's an experiment. You know a dude like that is gonna be weird. Probably wears his socks on the wrong feet.