Coscto is a place to buy meet in bulk. But have you ever thought about buying $5 steaks there? Well as no surprise they do sell at $5 a steak but it comes with some work:
If you don’t know, the best tasting steak on the planet is beef tenderloin. I recently found out the reason I hate steak at home is because the cuts of meat offered by the grocery store, really are just cheap cuts of meet. They are either too tough, or lacking in flavour. Change your life, buy a whole beef tenderloin and cut it up yourself!
How on earth do you cut the huge cut of beef? Well I usually go lazy method and use a cutting board with some wax paper as extra `clean surface’:
Once you have the roast out of the plastic wrapper, take a close look at it. You have to start thinking like a butcher. What can you do with this ? I cut off the thin end for the best skewer beef you have ever tasted. To me this is a perfect use of the delicious beef. If you where to cut it into a few steaks, they would be super small. I just cut it off and cube it.
Ok so you say, “But I don’t like meat on a stick!” No problem. If you don’t want to cube the beef for skewers, then you can tuck the tip, or thinnest part underneath and use butcher string to tie it up into a uni-formally thick rolled roast. Basically you roll the meet like a sushi roll, and then tightly tie it off with string.
Work with the meet, not against it. Some cuts of meat have other pieces that are only attached with fat. This isn’t great for `grilling’ steak. So I usually cut it off and use it as a roast or more cubed skewer meet:
Now it’s time to cut into steaks! Cut the steaks as thin or thick as you want to eat. This is all to individual taste. Generally this makes about 15-20 steaks out of the roast, all depending on the cut or thickness. And these steaks are amazing! They are flavour full and and tender. (tenderloin -dug):
OK so now you have 20 steaks. Either throw an amazing party, or freeze it. If you are going to freeze it here are some tips:
- Use zip-lock freezer bags.
- Label the bags before you have “meat hands.”
- Pack the meet as flat as possible, single layers.
- Air is your enemy: Get as much air out as possible. Air = Freezer burn.
Enjoy your $5 dollar steaks that are better than any $10 steak you can find in the grocery store!
