Posted on 12/01/2022 7:15:27 AM PST by Red Badger
I eat a lot of beef. I live by myself, so I can eat whatever I want. I put a big chunk of cheap beef in the crockpot and eat on it for several days. The meat I buy has not really gone up in price. I can buy shoulder, eye of round, and tips all day for $3.48 to $3.88 a pound at Sam’s Warehouse. I have about 50 or 60 pounds in my freezer. I don’t give a crap if it’s not organic, grass fed, or free range whatever. I know this is not acceptable to the multitudes of beef snobs around here.
Love my Instant Pot. I usually cook a tough cut of beef for about 1 hour or so. Cheaper, moister and heats the house up less! Oddly (to me anyway) chicken thighs cook for only 6-8 minutes.
“Oddly, these are the only cuts I *ever* buy.”
Me, too. Take a look at my comment #22.
Beef heart, liver and tongue often thrown away. My dog gets spoiled on those delicacies each year when we buy a beef.
You can literally throw any cut into a pot for 6-8 hours and have it come out great. Same applies to marinating tougher cuts youd like to grille.
Do you sear them first?
You can or you can do it after................
Yes, that works too!
But we use a pressure cooker to reduce that to less than 30 minutes!..............
Venison.
Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.....................😉
The second picture is not a top round roast but a pic of a sirloin tip roast. (knuckle) You can make stew meat from any of those cuts.
I don’t see Bambi on the menu.
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Flat iron is great but it is not cheap in my market anymore. Usually about $15 a lb. is the best I can find these days.
Definitely look to alternative cooking methods. I use my auto pressure cooker and sou vide cooking all the time. The electric crock pot is a very affordable and useful cooking appliance that every home should have.
One of my favorite crock pot beef recipes: Place a cut up onion and some small potatoes in the crock pot. Cover with a tough cut of beef like round steak. Combine 1 can of beer with a packet of dry onion soup mix and pour over the beef and vegetables. Either cook about 6 hours on low heat setting or about 4 hours on the high heat setting. You can thicken the pot liquid with flour or corn starch for gravy.
Sous Vide is the bomb. So good!
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I think they are both names for the same cut................
I sear it in the pressure cooker first, then that flavor permeates the meat as it cooks. :)
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