Eric open two boxes of chck roll yesterday and inside was some trimed fresh cry o vac biskets, it's been years since I cut these and then they weren't cry o vac. I was wondering if any of you cut these and what are you cutting them for nowadays lol I know what we use to cut them for lol but is there a new use for them ??
We're selling lots of briskets at 4.89 lb. On sale. Normally $4.99. Very well trimmed. Very popular item for Passover. Not often, but sometimes we'll slice them into about 1 inch thick strips and call it boneless short ribs.
Are those briskets or what we used to call plate boil? They look a lot fatter than the cryovac briskets we get. We have a few ranchers who like to slow BBQ briskets but we never seem able to sell a whole case. When that happens we'll slice them sideways about an inch and a half thick, turn them on their side and sell them for boneless short ribs. They look nice! Otherwise they made good hamburger lol.
Did you know briskets are also popular around Passover? If you have any kind of a Jewish population you may get some requests this week.
If it is a brisket, it's the whole long piece instead of just the thicker half that we usually get.
I agree that it's hard to tell from the picture what that actually is. It could be boneless plate. The brisket attaches to it. Everywhere I've ever worked, that's ground up. We did have a stamp that said "boiling beef" on it, and if ordered that way when you buy a whole forequarter (or side), we'd leave it bone in cut it like short ribs. They'd be real fat and I guess for soup. On the outer part of the plate is a thin sheet of meat that some call the "flutter muscle". It's the other part of the elephant ear from the hind Q. You've probably seen cattle shake the flies off their body with that muscle. That thin piece of meat is very popular in Argentina.
The plate is nothing good but regular trim,the brisket point is what people starting to buy more.Thanks to the USA BBQ shows.everybody wants to try it and see if it is agood as some of those dudes. We sell about 30lbs every 2 weeks we seel for 5.09 a pound.
That's a boneless plate. If you have the time, a good cure and a decent smoker, make beef bacon out of it. If you feel like triming it out, you can get some stew or cube steaks but it's easier to grind. We got in some brisket with the deckle still on the other day, I hadn't seen that for quite some time.
Here's another low quality pic (from a cell phone) taken today May 13. This time the bone in question (from the above post) is not yet removed. The piece is on the edge of the table next to the short loin. Again, it's grass fed beef, non choice. Flavor is quite different from grain fed beef. Just beyond the round, down the rail is a tree of lamb breasts. Further down the rail, almost out of the pic is a tree of lamb legs. That's more lamb on the table next to the beef. Legs with sirloins still attached.