Posted on 12/31/2017 8:26:29 PM PST by dynachrome
President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump arrive at the Mar-a-Lago New Years Eve party in Palm Beach, Florida.
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No way...most are raised in feedlots, confined, no roaming, no natural grass and certainly no spring water.
Yes, if store-bought. If I grind it myself, and I often do, rare to medium rare is good.
Usually they are raised in a pasture until a certain age, and only then sent to the feedlot to ‘finish.’
They are usually brought to the feedlot when they are 9 to 12 months old, depending on the breed’s rate of growth. So they’ve had nearly a year of romping and rolling in the grass.
They are kept there on a pure hay or grass diet for several days while they get a chance to settle, before the gradual introduction of combinations of grain, soybeans alfalfa, and mashes from distilleries to the hay begins. At no point are they put on a pure grain diet, as they need roughage to prevent acidosis.
They stay on the feed lot until they are 12 to 15 months of age. (150 to 240 days) and put on an average of 500 to 600 lbs by 12 to 15 months when they are slaughtered.
As for the water, most comes from a well.
What is well water?
It’s the same aquifier as what comes out of springs in the area, a spring being nothing more than a natural hole in the ground from which water is flows, and the well being a manmade hand dug or drilled hole into the same aquifier, or sometimes an even deeper and more pristine one.
To raise them right Kobe must be massaged and fed beer...
I got violently sick once when my first wife under cooked a meatloaf.
Spouting from both ends, afraid I was dying one moment and the next afraid I wouldn’t die.
Not a fun experience.
I did have a rare prime rib once. So tender you could cut it with a fork.
That was a fantastic meal.
It was a catered awards dinner and the waitress snuck me another while no one was looking.
She was such a flirt.
Unfortunately I was married.
Many years ago, when it was fun to fly, I ordered a Jack Daniels and coke from the flight attendant. The guy next to me cringed. Told the lady to give me Jack on the rocks and he’d pay for it. “That’s sippin’ whisky, he told me.
Done that ever since.
We raised our Hereford steers on tallgrass prairie pasture that had a rock little spring branch creek lined with watercress that flowed from a hill into a pond that also had a spring in the bottom and looked like a pretty turqoise eye peering from under a brow made of cedars and plum trees; from there the creek emerged and dropped towards a river.
We also had an acre of garlic in that same pasture that they grazed as well... and a mineral block they shared with the deer.
That was the best tasting beef I’ve ever had, by far. Perfectly seasoned on the hoof. We had the local butcher age it all for us but it was good even unaged.
You could just smell the garlic in the meat, which was heavily and evenly marbled since the cattle were not at all crowded, never had to work much to find forage [didn’t even have to stoop the grass was so tall], and were never disturbed by predators or people, not even much to annoy them save a few isolated horseflies. They even had access to an old apple orchard and the real bluegrass in it. We treated them like pets, which made it hard come time to slaughter, they knew something was up that day but at least they didn’t know it for long. We only felt like miserable backstabbing Benedict Arnolds until the first taste. If we raised a Japanese steer like that the meat would fall off the bones while the thing was still alive.
Problem is, there’s not enough pasture land like that to raise a large quantity of beef to feed a nation hooked on hamburgers, which is why there are feedlots. Maybe there would be more pastureland and prairie if we weren’t raising so much corn for ethanol.
That’s why you have to look for beef that’s “grass finished” not “grass fed” if you want the healthiest beef that will provide you with vitamin K 2. It’s hard to find.
” I ordered a Jack Daniels and coke from the flight attendant. The guy next to me cringed.”
Jack Daniels and coke is sacrilege!
The original commandments were 11 in number and #11 was Thou shalt not mix bourbon with any other liquid. Any decent southerner knows that.
Sadly many southern men and women have forgotten the 11th commandment and need to be reeducated.
Your benevolent stranger did you a huge favor. Not only did he potentially save your soul, he also broadened your palate. I’m sure your tongue has been thanking him since that encounter.
“more pastureland and prairie”
Actually the best pastureland is nowhere near the prairie. Here in western PA cattle can finish on pasture. That was true in West Virginia too. The best pasture in the nation pretty much runs from New York to Tennesee. (according to WVU ag school, Penn State extension repeated it and that jives with what I’ve seen)
Outside that area the pasture is still pretty good but gets worse as you head west.
That said a quick check shows the vast majority of feedlots occur in just 13 states mostly in the west and states bordering the west.
I’m a fan of grass fed Angus myself. Lucky me, I live where it’s easy to find and relatively cheap.
Compared to the shelf ass America hating Wookie Bitch?
If you are interested in a rare or medium rare hamburger go to a Marriott hotel. I worked in a kitchen there and they get their beef frozen and checked for e-coli. Mr Marriott loves rare hamburgers and if you buy anything other than what they provide it is an immediate firing offense!
Happy new year KC and all!
If I go to a Marriott I will try the med rare burger.
Good to know some places still have standards.
Thanks for the tip.
The average burger joint is a crap shoot health wise. I remember the Jack in the box tainted meat scare.
Plus I used to pull meat from the slaughter houses. I saw the third world mutts that worked there. Not reassuring.
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