Expect Consistent Results!

When you go out and buy your steak or roast, you can only expect consistent results if you know:

• Grade (very important),
• Aging (very important),
• Diet (important),
• Genetics (less important) and
• Age of the animal (less important)

When a store advertises “…cut from “A” or “higher grade”, it really means it is a crap shoot as to what you are getting. Consequently, your cooking and taste results will vary.  We like to compare it to your internet service. When you want to get online and you don’t know if you will get ‘dial up’, ‘cable’, ‘high speed’, or ‘satellite’ service, your results will truly be inconsistent. Most stores do not know (nor can they) what age of animal their meat comes from, since most meat is sold through brokers and can not be ‘source verified’. As with farmers markets and smaller local stores, management makes it their business to know who is growing their vegetables or is raising the meat they sell.

Quality will be more consistent because you know the producer, who is ultimately directly responsible, and accountable, to you. As always and with everything, knowledge empowers. Cook roasts with a meat thermometer for best results.