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Briandg · 09-08-2012, 09:13 PM

Okay, the wally world here is always throwing thin sliced top round on clearance every wednesday or so. I grab a pack, marinate it, and do jerky. last week I doused it in some lime, soy sauce, chipotle tabasco, and a bit of brown sugar. makes great jerky after 2 hours in a 220 degree oven.

Jester · 09-08-2012, 11:50 PM

Nothing wrong with that treatment. Frankly, that is about the best way you can treat that cut especially if the retailer is gonna thin-cut it for you anyway.

Best,
J.

BigO · 09-09-2012, 02:11 AM

Our Kroger is constantly reducing flanken cut chuck ribs on clearance (I keep telling them that if they can get these whole, I can deliver them enough BBQ'er bidness they won't have to reduce them to sell), so I keep making Korean BBQ out of them. Got a batch marinating for tonight's dinner. My son adores them.

grtrx · 09-09-2012, 05:07 AM

So walmart is importing chinese beef?

Back in VA if could get to the local grosto on Sunday afternoons the shortribs were always on sale. Various cuts of them, always on sale. Then they quit carrying them for a few months. Then they changed brand (same parent - Food Lion - switched from the upscale line to Food Lion).

alfa · 09-09-2012, 05:18 AM

um, around here, milanesa is pork, but it does indeed make a great stir fry

from my Korean ex-girlfriend, the key to making stir-fry meat tender is simply steaming it in the wok long enough - bite-test it before you stir in the noodles.

but the jerky sounds great

Briandg · 09-09-2012, 08:18 AM

Jason, there's a question I've had for a long time. every store here sells beef short ribs cut about 1/4 inch thick, darn near bacon thin. like these.

let's get serious. they are fatty, usually meatless, and basically bone, marrow, and suet. What do people see in them, and why are people willing to buy them at the price usually reserved for good steaks?

The only reasonable use that I could ever think of for something like that would be to brown the hell out of them in the oven in a jelly roll pan, and then make stock out of them. The biggest problem I have with it is that like I said, the ones I always see have a only a few ounces of meat in the entire package. You could starve to death unless you ate them fat and all.

the picture is there only for demonstration purpose. the ones available here don't have that skirt of meat. It's probably already cut off and sold separately.

09-08-2012, 09:13 PM	#1
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	milanesa steak Okay, the wally world here is always throwing thin sliced top round on clearance every wednesday or so. I grab a pack, marinate it, and do jerky. last week I doused it in some lime, soy sauce, chipotle tabasco, and a bit of brown sugar. makes great jerky after 2 hours in a 220 degree oven.

09-08-2012, 11:50 PM	#2
Jester Contributing Editor Club Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Saint Pete Fl/Montgomery Al Posts: 4,017	Nothing wrong with that treatment. Frankly, that is about the best way you can treat that cut especially if the retailer is gonna thin-cut it for you anyway. Best, J. __________________ A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. - Samuel Adams, 1779

09-09-2012, 02:11 AM	#3
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,779	Our Kroger is constantly reducing flanken cut chuck ribs on clearance (I keep telling them that if they can get these whole, I can deliver them enough BBQ'er bidness they won't have to reduce them to sell), so I keep making Korean BBQ out of them. Got a batch marinating for tonight's dinner. My son adores them. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

09-09-2012, 05:07 AM	#4
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	So walmart is importing chinese beef? Back in VA if could get to the local grosto on Sunday afternoons the shortribs were always on sale. Various cuts of them, always on sale. Then they quit carrying them for a few months. Then they changed brand (same parent - Food Lion - switched from the upscale line to Food Lion). __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

09-09-2012, 05:18 AM	#5
alfa Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 23,219	um, around here, milanesa is pork, but it does indeed make a great stir fry from my Korean ex-girlfriend, the key to making stir-fry meat tender is simply steaming it in the wok long enough - bite-test it before you stir in the noodles. but the jerky sounds great Last edited by alfa; 09-09-2012 at 05:32 AM.

09-09-2012, 08:18 AM	#6
Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Jason, there's a question I've had for a long time. every store here sells beef short ribs cut about 1/4 inch thick, darn near bacon thin. like these. let's get serious. they are fatty, usually meatless, and basically bone, marrow, and suet. What do people see in them, and why are people willing to buy them at the price usually reserved for good steaks? The only reasonable use that I could ever think of for something like that would be to brown the hell out of them in the oven in a jelly roll pan, and then make stock out of them. The biggest problem I have with it is that like I said, the ones I always see have a only a few ounces of meat in the entire package. You could starve to death unless you ate them fat and all. the picture is there only for demonstration purpose. the ones available here don't have that skirt of meat. It's probably already cut off and sold separately.