Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
is USDA Choice.

Paul Barrett

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:21:02 -0900, "Paul & Robin Barrett"
> wrote:

>Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
>is USDA Choice.
>
>Paul Barrett
>

Specialty meat markets or online. I have the former available, so
cannot tell you about online. Google it.

Best of the holidays to you.


jim

ensenadajim wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:21:02 -0900, "Paul & Robin Barrett"
> > wrote:
>
> >Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
> >is USDA Choice.
> >
> >Paul Barrett
> >
>
> Specialty meat markets or online. I have the former available, so
> cannot tell you about online. Google it.

Talking through your ass... useless runty *******, ain'tcha.

He http://www.lobels.com

On 25 Dec 2005 13:53:10 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>
>ensenadajim wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:21:02 -0900, "Paul & Robin Barrett"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
>> >is USDA Choice.
>> >
>> >Paul Barrett
>> >
>>
>> Specialty meat markets or online. I have the former available, so
>> cannot tell you about online. Google it.
>
>Talking through your ass... useless runty *******, ain'tcha.
>
>He http://www.lobels.com


Were you speaking for me again, shelliebabie? Evidently, were I
talking through my ass.

I do have local meat shops that handle prime and there are several
online that I do not bother looking for because I have the former.

If all that went over your head again slelliebabie, next Christmas,
ask Santa Claus for a working brain.


jim

ensenadajim wrote:
>
>
> Were you speaking for me again, shelliebabie? Evidently, were I
> talking through my ass.

You're all ass... LYING ******* ASSHOLE!

On 28 Dec 2005 07:42:18 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>
>ensenadajim wrote:
>>
>>
>> Were you speaking for me again, shelliebabie? Evidently, were I
>> talking through my ass.
>
>You're all ass... LYING ******* ASSHOLE!


Still trying, eh shelliebabie? My, that outburst of yours sounds
exactly like a beer fart I make every once in awhile.


jim

ensenadajim wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:21:02 -0900, "Paul & Robin Barrett"
> > wrote:
>
>
>>Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
>>is USDA Choice.
>>
>>Paul Barrett
>>
>
>
> Specialty meat markets or online. I have the former available, so
> cannot tell you about online. Google it.
>
> Best of the holidays to you.
>
>
> jim

Allen Brothers sells a lot of high end beef. Be prepared for sticker shock.

Peter
>

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:58:46 GMT, "P.Aitken" > rummaged
among random neurons and opined:

>
>
>ensenadajim wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:21:02 -0900, "Paul & Robin Barrett"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
>>>is USDA Choice.
>>>
>>>Paul Barrett
>>>
>>
>>
>> Specialty meat markets or online. I have the former available, so
>> cannot tell you about online. Google it.
>>
>> Best of the holidays to you.
>>
>>
>> jim
>
>Allen Brothers sells a lot of high end beef. Be prepared for sticker shock.

Worth every dime where the steaks are concerned. Had their prime rib
for Christmas and, although it was very, very good, was not so
exceptional that it was worth the price.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

Paul & Robin Barrett > wrote:
> Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the markets
> is USDA Choice.

If you are the Paul Barrett who lives in Dallas, you can find
it at Central Market. It's cheaper at Hirsch's, though.

--
Mark Shaw
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of mnshaw@
celestial fire called conscience." - George Washington gmail.com

"Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in message
...
> Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the
> markets is USDA Choice.
>
> Paul Barrett

If you live in SoCal, Gelson's carries Prime Grade; I've seen it at How's
Markets (used to be Hughes); Selected Ralph's in upscale neighborhoods, like
La Canada-Flintridge & parts of da valley. The big Whole Foods in Pasadena
also carries Prime.

Harriet & critters (J J the world famous jack russell terrior; P K the lady
manx; and my son Joseph who came back & is putting mom thru school)

"hw" > wrote in
nk.net:

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> "Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the
>> markets is USDA Choice.
>>
>> Paul Barrett
>
> If you live in SoCal, Gelson's carries Prime Grade; I've seen it at
> How's Markets (used to be Hughes); Selected Ralph's in upscale
> neighborhoods, like La Canada-Flintridge & parts of da valley. The
> big Whole Foods in Pasadena also carries Prime.
>
> Harriet & critters (J J the world famous jack russell terrior; P K the
> lady manx; and my son Joseph who came back & is putting mom thru
> school)


I was gonna suggest Goldman Sachs.

Andy

Lobel's is fantastic, (and fantastically expensive), even though it
comes frozen.
Plus, their beef is dry-aged, which you can usually only find in fine
steakhouses.

Try their pork chops. You won't confuse them for the "other white meat"
type that you see in stores.

"Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in message
...
> Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the
markets
> is USDA Choice.
>
> Paul Barrett

where is your nearest metro area?



>
>

It may depend on where you live. Around here some small farmers -
retired or with other jobs - raise a handful of cattle to feed
themselves and a few friends and sell for a little extra cash. We found
the one who supplies us by calling around local custom butchers to ask
if they knew any sources for custom or organic beef.

It's a trade-off. The fellow who supplies our beef doesn't have all the
special certifications so we have to take his word on how he feeds and
treats his animals. He says it's the way his Dad used to feed prime
beef for sale, and the taste says he's doing something right! He
doesn't advertise, so he and others like him are hard to find. And we
have to keep a freezer and accept a quarter at a time, all cuts.
Certified advertised specialty beef producers let you pick individual
cuts when you want them and make custom orders, but they charge 2-10
times grocery store prices, counting shipping. We pay about the same as
we used to pay at the store for much better beef. For us, this really
works.

Kathy

"Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in message
...
> Where does one buy "Prime" grade beef? The best I ever find in the
> markets is USDA Choice.

Without knowing where "one" lives, it's hard to tell you where to shop.

In case you live in Houston, though...you can find prime beef at Pete's Fine
Meats, on 5509 Richmond Ave (east of Chimney Rock). Also, B&W Meat Market,
on Shepherd, carries prime. Another place is Veron's Cajun Meat Market, in
Humble/Atascocita.

Mary

You need a premium market or a butcher's shop.

Her in AZ the only "supermarket" in which to get it semi-consistently
is AJ's, the premium branch of Bashas' (sic).

N.B.: USDA Prime is not cheap, typically 2-3x the price of choice, and
it's not guaranteed to be better than choice. The entire carcass is
graded, and the grader can't see into the particular cut of meat you're
buying, just the exposed edge of the slit cut into the side of beef
that he's grading. So, fairly often, you'll find cuts from
Choice-graded carcasses that have all the marbling of nominal Prime
beef. And, sometimes, it goes the other way, and the Prime looks
almost like Select. The grades are based entirely on eyeballed fat
percentage have correlation with the quality of the lean meat or the
aging.

Your eye on the cut you're asking them to wrap up is the guide.

That said, one of the best steaks I ever ate was a 16-oz Prime strip
that I got at AJ's ($18/lb, iirc) and seared on my home grill to leave
a cool center with the marbling still visible. I still close my eyes
thinking about that one.

--Blair

>The grades are based entirely on eyeballed fat
>percentage have correlation with the quality of the lean meat or the
>aging.

"and have no correlation"

--Blair
"hth"