Posted on 06/02/2015 8:08:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Substitute “meat” for “beef”, and I wholeheartedly agree.
It can be overdone, of course. Too fatty a cut makes for a greasy meal. But too lean makes for a hockey puck, including the flavor.
Cow’s eat anything they can get their lips around especially free range or pasture. Ranch land changes throughout the year with the vegetation going through cycles. During the spring and summer months is the only time they’ll much a little grass the rest of the time it’s whats available with weed’s of various cooler weather species being predominate. During the deep winter they all hit the cactus patches here in Texas or start stripping lover hanging tree’s. When finishing cattle what you feed them is not as important as how you feed them. Cattle in a pasture feed at will, in a feedlot it’s when feed is put out and that’s where competitive feeding comes into play. Cows will eat every time the feed is put out even when not hungry due to their competitive nature. Kinda like raising show hog’s you always raise two or three to get them to eat more.
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Yep, you are correct, something without fat, nothing drips on the coals and gives it smoke flavor either. As a guy who spent half his life on a cattle ranch, we fed our own butcher steers grain, when we could have let them have all the grass they wanted, for free. Fat marbles beef, which provides flavor. Grass fed is better.....myth
Don’t bother with grass fed beef.
The older one gets you just might need all the preservatives you can find!
You mean formaldehyde?
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