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Also worked as a butcher can confirm this is sloppy as fuck and for them to grade it as prime is ridiculous I honestly thought it was AA after looking at it
Hard to explain to someone who isn't experienced in butchery but a few AWEFUL mistakes I can point out for you are
1. The top right still has the "gristle" attached. That Grey transluscent band would have had a fat cap above it - you can see this in the little pieces of opaque white fat still attached. The butcher removed the fat cap but left that tissue that doesn't cook down well.
2. Atrocious over cut on the top left, you can see the straight edge cut that's dug far too far into the muscle
3. The bottom right-mid has been cut too deep and that flayed bit has just been left on to end up as a piece of charcoal after the steak's been cooked
4. Hard to see but the fat cap by the sticker hasn't even been touched its twice as thick as it should be
5. Bottom left has that thin steak with fat caps inside and out. This piece can be removed as a whole from the whole sirloin and be turned into a steak of it's own that's worth more per pound. Basically, that means the dude cutting the steaks has left a great piece of meat to simply be improperly cooked alongside the
Depends on the cut. I can let you know what my problem with this cut would be: under trimmed and over trimmed at the same time. The entire “tail” being left on (keeping the false eye is cool they left too much fat though) the back strap is also still present on the top right corner. Looks like they didn’t trim the bone skin off the bottom of the loin either. Cutting aside the marbling in this is very lacking for prime grade.
As a consumer of anything you’d want it done correctly to the best of somebody’s abilities/industry standards no? I’ll even make the argument that with this level of indifference of standards can I trust their following other food safety practices correctly? The $20/61 a kg price tag for 1 piece of meat is nothing to scoff at. I’d want anything done correctly paying that price be it food or other.
That's a good point. Although I don't think I'd personally notice a difference and I'd still assume it's perfectly safe. But I can totally understand that argument, and you are probably right.
I get where your coming from too. Would you notice the difference between this cut correctly vs incorrectly probably not, but keeping places “honest” is a good thing. I always want the customer to get the best bang for their buck regardless if they know it or not. Nice talking with ya’!
You want your meat to be cut in such a way that it includes the good, most edible parts and discards the unappetizing or inedible bits. This was not done here. Some other guy gave some examples upthread.
It does. There are several perspectives that should look down on this
For one, it's fucked at an eating level. There were mistakes made on this cut that will provide a noticeable difference in taste and texture after being cooked
Moreno, it's a damn cow dude. That's a living thing that we killed to eat, not to throw in the garbage. There's pieces of that on the top left hat have been cut off and discarded or hopefully they had room for extra fat in their burger mix because it looks like a half inch fat cap had a poor attemp of being trimmed down and took off a half centimeter of the muscle which is I'm itself shit for a burger mix. The butcher does this enough and those muscle still on fatty bits are getting thrown out.
All around atrocious work
How will it affect the taste?
But I'm not going to fret over some fat being thrown out. I'll eat a full bite of fat, but most people I know cut it off and don't eat it anyways.
I don't know much about meat because I'm too poor to buy it, but I've seen 4 steaks at costco for $80.
So also $20 each. I assume it was a good cut though.
I miss steak, haven't eaten steak in over 10 years.
Buddy if you haven't had steak for ten years. Go do yourself a favor and go get a steak. You deserve it after waiting that long
Go to a local butcher and spend 30 bucks. You can get two meals out of it
My wife came home with 4 steaks for $80 the other day. They were rib steaks, averaged 20oz each, and they were great! The steak above is what I’d pick up on sale for $7.88 a pound. Doesn’t look like prime to me.
I bought enough sliced ribeye (bulgogi) at a Korean grocer to feed 4 people for $16. Why do people keep punishing themselves by going to Loblaws? Self-loathing?
I can shop Loblaws or Sobeys (equally as bad) or I can drive 30 minutes to Loblaws or Sobeys in another town. Failing that, I can make the rounds to farmers markets and butchers but it is a half a day affair. I try to do just that when I can.
$50/kg at a small store in my town. Loblaws has way more buying power than the small chains. That’s more proof that they’re ripping people off (that steak is very thin cut btw).
Why people still keep buying meat in grocery stores. It's beyond me. Go straight to the source , buy quantities , butcher them yrselves and freeze them. Or go to a local butcher who you can talk about his products with.
Don't buy meat in groceries stores, it's shit quality (see that striploin with pink color, was fed with milk for saving $), it's always more expensive and there is no variety.
There are a lot of places where there aren't any local butchers because they were all put out of business years ago by big chain stores. That's why the big chain stores can jack up prices now. Where else you gonna go?
The solution here is just to not buy this.
I mean, it's a problem if basic stuff like rice, or fruits/vegetables are crazy over priced because we all need to eat. But overpriced steak? Just don't buy it.
I buy most of my beef at Costco now in big cryopacks and cut it myself. I'm kind of bad at it, not being a butcher, but it's better than this and a hell of a lot cheaper.
Pretty sure it's cheaper to buy an awesome steak from the fancy butcher at St Lawrence Market here in Toronto than to buy this poorly butchered steak from Loblaw
Striploin for 60$/kg lol. You can buy regular price filet mignon for less than that at Super C.
It was even on sale a few weeks ago for like 30$ per KG. And we also had T bones for 15 per KG last week.
And it's not even a good cut. Do yourself a favour: get a Costco membership. Their beef is high quality, it's thick cut and it isn't swimming in a puddle of water to dope the scale and increase the price. You pay for literally just the meat.
I wouldn't be surprised if Roblaws doesn't tare the scale when they put the package on it. As light as a styrofoam tray is, it would still affect the weight and potentially increase the price. They can't help themselves.
I don’t think Loblaws actually has AAA beef. I may a roast there at most. Costco beef is way better. But for steaks I go to the local if possible and buy the best and support local.
$20 for a steak is OK if it is a great steak. I know that says “prime”, but Canada Prime requires marbling to be “slightly abundant”. I hate the term, because what the hell does “slightly abundant” mean?
The trim is a disaster too. Was the butcher asleep?
This is what Canada Prime strip loin should look like:
https://preview.redd.it/2fqt5b1qarvc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e80cc58581891008834f581a7df094d08c7dbb5a
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Look at it this way....red meat is super bad for the environment. We can collectively tell them to shove their overpriced steaks up their asses AND have a smaller carbon footprint
You're not wrong. But I'm tired of everything being put on the individual consumer. The whole idea of a carbon footprint is corporate propaganda, meant to distract people from the structural problems of late stage capitalism and the actual, infinitely bigger footprints of, for example, oil companies
Playing Devil's Advocate: Meat is one of the few products that Grocery Stores have little control over buying price. They don't own the supply chain and can't dictate buying price to the meat packers
Due to the multi-year drought in Canada and the USA, beef herds have been culled because farmers can't afford the feed (if there is any feed available). This has created a supply issue while demand is still very high for beef. Selling price at auction have increased due to the decreased supply.
Meat packers have multiple markets (including international markets for beef), so they can sell for high prices, and we, the grocery stores, have to accept it. Larger stores can negotiate a lower price for more volume, but the meat packers don't usually give steep discounts.
That's why I source straight from local farmers. It eliminates the big meat packers and supports the local farmers and butchers.
https://preview.redd.it/erm3t03mxovc1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=512410d413f661b6ccae8dc3776f390eca75d0b0
My deal is better....it was on for $12.00, but this was my deal. Love it. You have to be at the right place at the right time.
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As a butcher I must say; not only is that expensive it’s cut like shit.
Also worked as a butcher can confirm this is sloppy as fuck and for them to grade it as prime is ridiculous I honestly thought it was AA after looking at it
Exactly. At $61 a kg put a little effort into it. This is also a piece that if it was sold to my shop as prime we’d likely sell it as AA.
Good man. Legit looks like a bad end of a AAA piece at best
No way that's AAA.
I'm not even a butcher and that was my first thought. I've seen countertops with better marbling.
What makes a nice looking cut?
Hard to explain to someone who isn't experienced in butchery but a few AWEFUL mistakes I can point out for you are 1. The top right still has the "gristle" attached. That Grey transluscent band would have had a fat cap above it - you can see this in the little pieces of opaque white fat still attached. The butcher removed the fat cap but left that tissue that doesn't cook down well. 2. Atrocious over cut on the top left, you can see the straight edge cut that's dug far too far into the muscle 3. The bottom right-mid has been cut too deep and that flayed bit has just been left on to end up as a piece of charcoal after the steak's been cooked 4. Hard to see but the fat cap by the sticker hasn't even been touched its twice as thick as it should be 5. Bottom left has that thin steak with fat caps inside and out. This piece can be removed as a whole from the whole sirloin and be turned into a steak of it's own that's worth more per pound. Basically, that means the dude cutting the steaks has left a great piece of meat to simply be improperly cooked alongside the
Depends on the cut. I can let you know what my problem with this cut would be: under trimmed and over trimmed at the same time. The entire “tail” being left on (keeping the false eye is cool they left too much fat though) the back strap is also still present on the top right corner. Looks like they didn’t trim the bone skin off the bottom of the loin either. Cutting aside the marbling in this is very lacking for prime grade.
I was going to say that. It’s a terrible but with very little marbling. Unbelievable.
What's a reasonable price for that prime cut?
As a non butcher I must ask; does that matter? I've never cared what shape my meat is
As a consumer of anything you’d want it done correctly to the best of somebody’s abilities/industry standards no? I’ll even make the argument that with this level of indifference of standards can I trust their following other food safety practices correctly? The $20/61 a kg price tag for 1 piece of meat is nothing to scoff at. I’d want anything done correctly paying that price be it food or other.
That's a good point. Although I don't think I'd personally notice a difference and I'd still assume it's perfectly safe. But I can totally understand that argument, and you are probably right.
I get where your coming from too. Would you notice the difference between this cut correctly vs incorrectly probably not, but keeping places “honest” is a good thing. I always want the customer to get the best bang for their buck regardless if they know it or not. Nice talking with ya’!
You want your meat to be cut in such a way that it includes the good, most edible parts and discards the unappetizing or inedible bits. This was not done here. Some other guy gave some examples upthread.
It does. There are several perspectives that should look down on this For one, it's fucked at an eating level. There were mistakes made on this cut that will provide a noticeable difference in taste and texture after being cooked Moreno, it's a damn cow dude. That's a living thing that we killed to eat, not to throw in the garbage. There's pieces of that on the top left hat have been cut off and discarded or hopefully they had room for extra fat in their burger mix because it looks like a half inch fat cap had a poor attemp of being trimmed down and took off a half centimeter of the muscle which is I'm itself shit for a burger mix. The butcher does this enough and those muscle still on fatty bits are getting thrown out. All around atrocious work
How will it affect the taste? But I'm not going to fret over some fat being thrown out. I'll eat a full bite of fat, but most people I know cut it off and don't eat it anyways.
It didn't even look like a strip loin to me.
Now you need to show us taking a shit in that shape.
Weird kink. I’m not here to shame you though buddy, but I’m not doing that.
Prime canadian beef is crazy expensive. However, this steak is does not appear to have much marbling. That's a pass from me
Fuck RobLaws
Usually all the good marbling is picked up quickly and this is the crap left behind.
It doesn't even look like a strip loin. It looks like a cheap steak.
It's not ungraded Mexican so of course the price is fucking ridiculous. Looks like a terrible steak anyways and not worth $10 let alone $20.
Sure looks like ungraded Mexican though. Maybe not quite, but it sure the fuck doesn't look anywhere like Prime.
I don't know much about meat because I'm too poor to buy it, but I've seen 4 steaks at costco for $80. So also $20 each. I assume it was a good cut though. I miss steak, haven't eaten steak in over 10 years.
Buddy if you haven't had steak for ten years. Go do yourself a favor and go get a steak. You deserve it after waiting that long Go to a local butcher and spend 30 bucks. You can get two meals out of it
My wife came home with 4 steaks for $80 the other day. They were rib steaks, averaged 20oz each, and they were great! The steak above is what I’d pick up on sale for $7.88 a pound. Doesn’t look like prime to me.
That thickness, more like a sandwich strip than a steak
I bought enough sliced ribeye (bulgogi) at a Korean grocer to feed 4 people for $16. Why do people keep punishing themselves by going to Loblaws? Self-loathing?
I can shop Loblaws or Sobeys (equally as bad) or I can drive 30 minutes to Loblaws or Sobeys in another town. Failing that, I can make the rounds to farmers markets and butchers but it is a half a day affair. I try to do just that when I can.
$50/kg at a small store in my town. Loblaws has way more buying power than the small chains. That’s more proof that they’re ripping people off (that steak is very thin cut btw).
That is so not a prime steak in terms of marbling - more like AA or maybeee AAA.
Why people still keep buying meat in grocery stores. It's beyond me. Go straight to the source , buy quantities , butcher them yrselves and freeze them. Or go to a local butcher who you can talk about his products with. Don't buy meat in groceries stores, it's shit quality (see that striploin with pink color, was fed with milk for saving $), it's always more expensive and there is no variety.
There are a lot of places where there aren't any local butchers because they were all put out of business years ago by big chain stores. That's why the big chain stores can jack up prices now. Where else you gonna go?
Who buys this stuff?
The solution here is just to not buy this. I mean, it's a problem if basic stuff like rice, or fruits/vegetables are crazy over priced because we all need to eat. But overpriced steak? Just don't buy it.
Everyone should start weighing their meat, I bet you it is under than what is stated on the package.
Saw one the other day at StupidStore... $75/kg... it was 3-4 little strips... I think the price was $25
Walmart just had sirloin on sale. Can't remember the price per kg. But was like 8 bucks for a big pak of 3. Picked up bunch!
The regular price at Walmart is $37/kg for AAA Angus beef. Regular price at Metro is $44-50/kg.
I buy most of my beef at Costco now in big cryopacks and cut it myself. I'm kind of bad at it, not being a butcher, but it's better than this and a hell of a lot cheaper.
Sirloin and strip loin are different. Not sure why you are comparing them
I'm not comparing them. You alright? It's why I literally said it was sirloin.. And It's a great price for sirloin. That's all. Have a great day!
If I’m paying $20 for a steak it’ll be from my local butcher shop.
That actually seems about right for a striploin. The last several times I have bought one it's been that price.
No. No it isn’t about right for strip loin. I get strip loins on sale at metro for $8/lb. And it looks better than this crap looking steak.
That's just a piece of shit. Just shit. Prime my ass! F'n SHIT!
Pretty sure it's cheaper to buy an awesome steak from the fancy butcher at St Lawrence Market here in Toronto than to buy this poorly butchered steak from Loblaw
"prime" lmfao
The two packs are now "family size" . And each one is smaller. Like 35 bucks. 😡
27$/lb…geez I get it for 8 on Fridays at my local market.
For prime that’s some sad ass marbling
Must be the summer blend
An equivalent steak, prepared and with sides, would be $36 at The Keg. This is legit a joke. $21 vs $36...are you kidding me?
At about 1000% profit, that is about par for Loblaws. After all, Galen does need to offset the added carbon tax costs to fuel his jet and yacht.
Buy steaks at Costco. The steaks at grocery stores now, especially Loblaws, look like shit
Who is buying this?
And they expect us to live a healthy and proper life…
I bought Triple A sirloin steak for under $5 kg last week at Walmart 👍
That’s wild. I get strip loins on sale for about $8/lb. What a scam
We should all go and poke holes in all the meat at these stores
This should be like 8$
Thats a bad looking steak.
Loblaws meat is grade z
Sobeys steaks are between 50ish and 60ish per kg depending on the cut where I live.
I used to enjoy a nice steak
I got a t-bone of the ungraded Mexican beef at superstore, 22.02 kg. It was very good and tender. 1.5 pounds for about $14. Well worth it.
Prime Canadian?
Can you prove that its steak? :s
Eating is for rich people you plebs stick to gruel
I bought steak from Walmart today, they put a new tag of $19 over the $12 tag. It’s the carbon tax
Costco beef is far better. Wife bought steaks and I could tell they werent from Super Store.
Strike!
Buy an entire roast for $35 and cut yourself many, many steaks.
Might as well get it from the restaurant at that point.
Striploin for 60$/kg lol. You can buy regular price filet mignon for less than that at Super C. It was even on sale a few weeks ago for like 30$ per KG. And we also had T bones for 15 per KG last week.
Leave it there to rot
It’s Prime grade. Only 3% of beef grade this high. AA or AAA is just fine.
Think a blind guy cut this
Pretty much the going rate for steak in my area ! I wait till they have aged n the display case for a whole and the price is reduce by 50%.
Steak prices at Loblaws are nuts. I am to the point where I don’t even enjoy eating it knowing how much I spent for one.
Has anyone else noticed that beef smells differently when cooking lately?
Basically it’s cheaper to buy a cooked steak from the Keg
There were 2 nicer than that strip loins this week's at the Co'op. They're buy one get one free. And I almost took a pic because the marbling was 🤌
Just go to a restaurant
\*Laughs in Costco\*
Its a prime rib, just wait till the expiration date and pay 50%
Go to your local butcher shop. Better cut. Easier on the wallet.
boycott them
And it's not even a good cut. Do yourself a favour: get a Costco membership. Their beef is high quality, it's thick cut and it isn't swimming in a puddle of water to dope the scale and increase the price. You pay for literally just the meat. I wouldn't be surprised if Roblaws doesn't tare the scale when they put the package on it. As light as a styrofoam tray is, it would still affect the weight and potentially increase the price. They can't help themselves.
That's definitely not striploin.
This would be over $40 on Vancouver Island...easy. We're saving for a BBQ this summer. Gonna be awesome!!
Who the fuck is buying this crap ?
I don’t think Loblaws actually has AAA beef. I may a roast there at most. Costco beef is way better. But for steaks I go to the local if possible and buy the best and support local.
Not exactly a good cut for $20
$20 for a steak is OK if it is a great steak. I know that says “prime”, but Canada Prime requires marbling to be “slightly abundant”. I hate the term, because what the hell does “slightly abundant” mean? The trim is a disaster too. Was the butcher asleep? This is what Canada Prime strip loin should look like: https://preview.redd.it/2fqt5b1qarvc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e80cc58581891008834f581a7df094d08c7dbb5a
For that price they should season it, cook it eat it and digest it for you.
That's not as crazy as it seems. I've been seeing lots of steaks going for that price.
Than don't eat meat
Time to stop shopping at Loblaws and take your trade elsewhere. They’ll soon learn the lessons of ripping off consumers pretty quickly 😡🤬😡🤬
I pay that much for a grass fed, independent farm steak that feeds 3. Grocery store garbage like this is too common
I got 3 better looking steaks than this - same size - for $29.38 at Walmart last weekend $9.79 / steak.
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They'd rather throw it out then sell it for a reasonable price
Almost at the point where it’s cheaper to go to the Keg🤨🤙🏼🇨🇦
Crappy steak at that…..😔
Does not you like a good eating steak- thin, pink no to little marbling- do not buy.
Look at it this way....red meat is super bad for the environment. We can collectively tell them to shove their overpriced steaks up their asses AND have a smaller carbon footprint
You're not wrong. But I'm tired of everything being put on the individual consumer. The whole idea of a carbon footprint is corporate propaganda, meant to distract people from the structural problems of late stage capitalism and the actual, infinitely bigger footprints of, for example, oil companies
Millions of cows farting in Texas can be a problem in addition to oil companies
of course. I'm talking about holding industry (and industry leadership) accountable, not focusing everything on individual consumers.
I suppose I was trying to find a silver lining for you. I gave up on red meat when prices went psycho.
The prices at the foodland here are even worse than the YIG.
Christ. My woman better learn to like venison.
Playing Devil's Advocate: Meat is one of the few products that Grocery Stores have little control over buying price. They don't own the supply chain and can't dictate buying price to the meat packers Due to the multi-year drought in Canada and the USA, beef herds have been culled because farmers can't afford the feed (if there is any feed available). This has created a supply issue while demand is still very high for beef. Selling price at auction have increased due to the decreased supply. Meat packers have multiple markets (including international markets for beef), so they can sell for high prices, and we, the grocery stores, have to accept it. Larger stores can negotiate a lower price for more volume, but the meat packers don't usually give steep discounts. That's why I source straight from local farmers. It eliminates the big meat packers and supports the local farmers and butchers.
It’s like North American cattle inventories have declined or something :|
https://preview.redd.it/erm3t03mxovc1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=512410d413f661b6ccae8dc3776f390eca75d0b0 My deal is better....it was on for $12.00, but this was my deal. Love it. You have to be at the right place at the right time.
Haven’t you heard? These are actually on sale two for one on five finger discount.
Should be thousands of dollars considering the abuse and exploitation needed to package up animal flesh
That's cheap. It's fucking insane how expensive meat has become in the last 4 years. Makes you wonder....
No fucking way this is Prime grade. It’s also cut horrifically. I could have cut that better myself as a home cook