Minneapolis meat advice. Butcher recommendations & meat related questions.
Slate on buying steak. “Breed. Every rancher, meat packer, and butcher I spoke to told me an Angus steak would taste better.” “Feed. Just as soil affects the quality of wine, a cow’s diet can change the quality of its flesh. One rancher told me that barley makes for flavorful beef and warned that wheat can make beef tough.” “Hormones. Almost all feedlot cows are injected with growth hormones to help them gain muscle mass; critics charge that doing so merely causes cows to retain water and produces bland meat.” “Aging. …most beef connoisseurs agree that dry-aged beef tastes better.” And the winner is… Grass-Fed Beef Price: $21.50 per pound Aging: Dry Purveyor: Alderspring Ranch (www.alderspring.com) What it is: Beef from cows that have never ingested anything other than mother’s milk and pasture, which is just as Mother Nature intended.
