eating steak with scissors?

Aside from the 30% solution mentioned further down in the comments, it's because those steaks are super-thin. I would have thought it was flank steak.

Also, I don't know if steakhouses have distorted people's assumed value of steak like Starbucks did with coffee, (Brew it yourself for 64 cents a gallon!) but what she got looks like a five dollar steak put through a deli slicer.

ironically, here in the south-west, flank steak is priced the same as T-bone steaks.

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Wondering the same thing myself. There has got to be some kind of catch, surely?

The labels say the steak contains "30% of a solution.*" Those are the exact words. You might not be shocked to find out that the FDA exerts very little control on what you can call food in this country.

The solution is probably soy, sugar, gums of some kind, and other binding agents. There's your savings.

net weight; 3.5oz, probably with water added to boost that.

so for lets say 3oz of actual meat, comes out to about to a little over a pound.

also cheaper to supply meat if you pump it full of preservatives and "spices" and "nitrates"...can source it from the cheapest place possible and ship it for long distances (possibly unfrozen?).

errr, over a pound.

ah ok so 30% water, that makes it .50 a pound.

this can be from the right part of cow carcass, but its also probably from the lower end of the grade scale allowed for human consumption. Like the beef ground up to be cheap hamburgers.

What do you need baby for? Is there really such little meat in that steak?

better to buy a cheap cut of tough meat, roast it at 250 for 4 hours, then use the juices as the stock for the stew, while the beef itself will be fork tender.

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Portal of Homo ErotiC stole all its traffic.

I love making pot roasts. People think they are difficult and I don't correct them.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-beef-stew -recipe.html

is what I use for stew, it's the best stew I've ever had, despite thinking my family's recipe couldn't be topped.

It's figuratively like food giving your tastebuds oral.

How does nobody in this group get the Arrested Development reference ?

I guess I suck, because I still can't figure out where or what the reference is.

I'm such a whore for dollar stores.

Cheap dishware (comes in handy if you need coffee mugs or plates at work), candy, plastic storage containers, holiday needs, decent cling wrap, snacks, you name it. The best thing I got at a dollar store (Family Dollar actually) was extra virgin olive oil. And it didn't taste like ass.

Of course, I don't expect half that stuff to last the year (though the dishes have held up), but it's nice having something around until you can afford something decent.

It's a potluck, I go there for candy because I am a candy addict. And greeting cards, because greeting cards are like a pop now and fuck that.

I've found the spread of dollar stores has push me more towards owning less and owning better quality things.

It's the only place I can find Crows licorice candy, anymore.

I wish I owned less-but-better in general too and for somethings like knives, surgical equipment, boats and shit it makes a lot of sense.

However for the majority of stuff you can get away with the bare minimum and still accomplish the same goals such as with a cheap hammer for banging the occasional nail. This is doubly true if you need but rarely use an item that can be easily replaced at a fraction of the cost such as a screw driver.

The key, I've found, is to work out what you really need and like, antique pocket watches for example, and get the best you can afford. Other things you can find a middle ground such as disposable surgical blades of reasonable quality. Then you can fill in the holes with bargain basement throw-away items.

One big advantage of this method is that if you ever have to suddenly move, say due to eviction or court order for squatting, you can simply take items of value and dump the rest.

Thanks.

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I saw a hammer that cost dollars yesterday. Unless you hammer shit for a living I doubt you could justify such an expenditure.

Not too sure where you are going with that Homer.

I still have and use a bunch of glasses I bought at a dollar store in NYC. They're quite nice. Often guests ask "where did you get those glasses? I want some!" and I tell them where I got them and they're disappointed.

Thank you lady, for finally showing me a practical use for children.

My wife made a comment that this is bad parenting.

It's nit just bad parenting, it's bad humaning.

Whatever, I would have spit it out and been like "oh god, kids, you just ate horse! I'm so sorry, ewwww, don't tell your friends. YouTube is going to freak out..."

sasazuka: I've been to quite a few parts of this fine nation and no, I've never seen a refrigerated section in a dollar store.

I think the closest thing I've seen to a dollar store that sells non-canned meat is Giant Tiger but I think their meat is comparable to budget supermarkets and it's very limited as I don't think most GT stores have butchers on the premises.

Our dollar tree sells lots of freezer/fridge items.

The best thing is that they have the medium size ice cream containers, in raspberry and orange sherbet flavor. Also icee cups in red and blue. Cant beat that for a buck.

We have Dollar General grocery stores and the back wall of our Dollar Trees are all refrigerated, though a lot of warm shelf food is sold there, which this steak might have been.

But can it be boiled in milk and served with jelly beans?

Forget the refrigeration; what bothers me about this is the price. I have never seen a dollar store that sells things for a dollar. Where the hell are y'all living?

I usually buy whole tenderloins from the butcher when they go on sale. It's a little pricey for me, but it still works out to be between or a pound, sometimes less, and it's top quality filet steaks too.

Braising. Braising opens the door to enjoying the cheapest cuts of meat. I will take /lb. oxtail stew or pork shoulder braised for 5 hours over a cheaper cut of steak any day.
Go to a proper butcher and not to a grocery store, where cheaper cuts are now "trendy" thanks to the ubiquity of exotic cooking shows.

I also bought a beef heart, a frozen 5 lb. monster, for . About a lb is dross that can be thrown into broth and fat which can be used to cook or tossed. I trimmed it and braised it (heart can also be ground and eaten as burger) and it was fantastic, about 4 lbs of lean meat for .

So what is braising, exactly?

it's crap, but not cheap.

It's , didn't you read the title?

Maybe Sol is factoring in the cost of crippling diarrhea.

hell yes - I forgot that sketch