Leonard Hatred 5:43 Sun Mar 21
Meat from a proper butchers shop Vs meat from supermarkets
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riosleftsock
5:55 Sun Mar 21
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I notice in our butchers he has put shelves behind him with the meat on it; pork on the bottom shelves, lamb in the middle and beef on the very top shelf.
I think the steaks are too high.
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arsegrapes
5:56 Sun Mar 21
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Supermarkets are cheaper, besides I stopped using my proper butchers when I heard he'd put his meat up two coppers.
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gank
6:29 Sun Mar 21
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The difference in quality and taste is right up there with Heinz beans and ketchup compared to supermarket stuff. Almost a different product altogether.
The one thing to bear in mind is that you need to cook it differently from fresh. Many good meats have I ruined by not standing at room temperature and subsequently cooking either roo high a temperature or for too long. Or both.
Research on Google makes the extra few quid well worth it, where cooking is concerned.
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mallard
6:56 Sun Mar 21
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I regularly use a traditional butchers round the corner from me.
No contest with regard to quality, maybe slightly more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Would never touch Beef Mince from a supermarket
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the coming of gary
7:06 Sun Mar 21
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i remember a bloke on the radio saying FOLK with a nine hundred quid phone in their pocket will walk past a good butchers to save a pound somewhere shit
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Westside
7:10 Sun Mar 21
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Never use supermarket meat.
Meat from the high street butcher, is sometimes more expensive (they regularly have offers and deals . The quality is vastly superior, even the cheaper cuts of meat.
The butcher I use, will cut, dice, slice the meat exactly as I want it. I'm sure every independent butcher will.
Most butchers will make their own sausages, which will be better than anything mass produced.
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Mike Oxsaw
7:13 Sun Mar 21
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When I lived in Radlett, and before I married my second wife, there were about a dozen of us who hosted a Sunday lunch rota at our homes.
We could tell who had used the local butcher and who the supermarket without anybody saying a word.
I loved the local butcher - he got to know what was going on and if I was lost for something different he had a raft of suggestions, all of which worked, many of which I would never have dreamed of.
For a while, I had a lodger who was a Cordon Bleu qualified chef - I'd get home, show him my meat, told him my thoughts and he took it from there.
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happygilmore
7:14 Sun Mar 21
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gank 6:29 Sun Mar 21
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A West Ham game in progress and Gank is posting cooking tips.
FMOB.
Non West Ham shit.......
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Leonard Hatred
7:26 Sun Mar 21
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I'd get home, show him my meat, told him my thoughts and he took it from there.
FMOB you walk straight into these things, Oxsaw.
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Nurse Ratched
7:40 Sun Mar 21
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Yes, local butcher is the way to go. It's not just the quality that's worse in a supermarket, the standards of butchery, particularly for beef cuts, is abysmal. Steak cut too thin. They cut off far too much of the fat. You can easily remove the fat when it's cooked, but beef NEEDS the fat while it's cooking to stop it going bone dry.
Having said that, I ordered (and paid well over the odds for!) some shin from Ocado for today's pie on the assumption that you can't really feck up the butchering of whole slabs of shin. It was exactly as I'd get it from the butcher. However I know I'd be disappointed if I ordered, say, a topside joint from there.
Also, you can't find bacon with the rind on in supermarkets now.
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7:48 Sun Mar 21
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One or two supermarkets have an on site butchery and if you can build a relationship with the butcher it’s possible to be well served.
There is no beating a good local butcher though.
Incidentally someone told me that several big Sainsbury’s supermarkets are using their closed on site butchery/fresh fish area to serve Argos customers.
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Sven Roeder
7:53 Sun Mar 21
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Am booked in at Air St Hawksmoor in late May for a steak catch up.
They are doing a home service at the moment too .... have a very nice box coming end of the week.
Its like good wine, makes it impossible to go back to supermarket stuff.
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joe royal
8:08 Sun Mar 21
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The only butchers in Ilford are ‘those ones’
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Alfs
8:13 Sun Mar 21
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Waitrose have a great selection of rib of beef, but expensive.
I know my butcher so I can ask him to hang beef for 35 - 42 days, which he doesn't charge extra for, if I give him notice.
He can also pinpoint which fields his meat was farmed on.
I'd never buy a joint of meat from a supermarket. It tastes like what it is, factory farmed.
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arsene york-hunt
8:15 Sun Mar 21
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Is this about oral sex?
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Haz
8:37 Sun Mar 21
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Mike says. I'd get home, show him my meat, told him my thoughts and he took it from there.
And that, ladies an gennlemen, is why he's on his second wife.
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BRANDED
8:49 Sun Mar 21
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Some Supermarkets in London have upped their game and are stocking well hung meat but the butchers meat is still much better. There are two butchers in Borough market that I use regularly.
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martinbritt_63
9:52 Sun Mar 21
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Used to love A G Dennis - Wanstead High Street.
Wonderful old fashioned family firm for whom nothing was too much trouble - and who still understood what a pound of swags was.
Sadly closed in 2016/2017 after 90 years to be taken over by The Ginger Pig - which at least is a proper butchers, even if a bit poncey/hipster imagewise.
Still - could have been worse and gone halal.
Am I allowed to say that ? - (f&*k it)
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Nurse Ratched
9:57 Sun Mar 21
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The shin was very tasty, in case you were wondering.
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Leonard Hatred
10:47 Sun Mar 21
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I'd never given this much thought before thus weekend, but I bought 2lb of steak mince from an award-winning butcher in COWDENBEATH yesterday. Bunged it in the slow cooker with some veg and a couple of OXO, and it was fucking MAGNIFICENT.
Tasted like meat used to taste when I was a kid.
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