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Follow up on beef tenderloin scraps

I did take my scraps from my beef tenderloin and cooked them in the oven until they browned.

Scraps from tenderloin that aren't fit to eat.
Cuts that aren’t fit to eat
cooked meat scraps on a baking tray
Meat scraps from Tenderloin, Cooked and ready for the stockpot.

I added this and some off cuts from my low FODMAP veggies to make a beautiful beef stock. This is another cost saving adventure as it helps to use everything you purchased and help stretch your dollar a little further. It makes it feel a little better that this is pretty unusable meat but you already paid for it so it’s best you get your full value out of it. It’s always important to roast your meat that goes into your stock it definitely provides a richer flavour.

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Processing Costco Tenderloin.

I am not an expert just like to eat cost effectively. To get a good steak right now it’s expensive. Here’s how to get one of the steaks on your table for $5 a steak.

Buy a tenderloin in bulk. (Costco is a great option)

Costco Beef Tenderloin in (Butcher) Packaging.
Costco Beef Tenderloin in Packaging.

When you get it it won’t be clean. It will have more tallow(beef fat) and silver skin than you want to eat. Silver skin is very chewy so please remove it:

Unprocessed Beef tenderloin on butcher paper. Still has silver skin and fat that needs to be removed.
Straight from the butcher beef tenderloin ready to be cleaned. Still has silver skin and fat that needs to be removed.

Us a thin sharp knife to cut off extra fat and silver skin. Do not throw it away. It can be cooked and throw into your stock pot. Here’s trick for silver skin. It’s really tough, but you can cut yourself a flap to grab:

beef tenderloin with a "flap" of silver skin cut and a hand ready to pull on the silver skin.
Cut and grab yourself a silver skin “flap”

Silver skin is stronger than the meat it’s on and will literally allow you to “Pull it” off the meat:

Beer tenderloin that is having it's silver skin pulled off.
Beer tenderloin that is having it’s silver skin pulled off.

Repeat this as many times as needed. Cut off any part that won’t make an appropriate sized steak and use this for your Kabob meat or smaller pieces as Beef and Broccoli meat.

Raw beef tenderloin, with off cuts and scraps that aren't fit to eat.
Raw tenderloin, cleaned up and ready to be cut into steaks

Now you can cut this into steaks you enjoy. As thick or thin as you like. I usually way what I just cut so I can make a call about how large my next cut will be. There are no mistakes here only happy accidents.

Beef Tenderloin Steaks, Kabobs, and Beef and Broccoli Cuts.