Favorite cheap beef cut ?

What's y'all's ? Nice little chuck eye with some fat is my personal favorite if I'm being cheap lol

Flank steak

I haven't found any cheap beef in over a year....

I like a blade steak or blade roast for flavour.They are a bit on the tough side though,but I'm a northerner so still have plenty of teeth.

Following for ideas. Beef's gotten so expensive down here I rarely buy it at all anymore.

Denver cut

Ribeye....but this one won't be growed out Till Fall 2024

Not cheap but Good on the Grill

Axis, they're running around everywhere down here.

I go to Sam's Club and buy a 12-15# beef round. Cut it into roasts, grind into burger or whatever else. 3.59/# I think.

Flank steak is 12.98 at local market here

I don’t have any favorites that are cheap. Going to put a Tri Tip on the smoker later. I don’t consider it expensive or cheap. After a low and slow smoke I’ll sear it on the gas grill.

Hamburger. Lots you can do with hamburger.

The only cheep beef around here is speed beef.
Some people call them whitetails. Lol

Ribeye for me

Get you some beef shanks and dig out your dutch oven. Put some oil in and hang the oven over a fire with a tripod. High enough it dont get real hot. Brown the beef on each side in the oil. Lay them aside. Put in some chopped up onions celery and carrots. Cook em a few minutes in the oil till they tender up some. Put in some tomato paste and cheap dry red wine. Add some tomatoes , garlic, rosemary, and salt. Let it come to a simmer. Put the shanks back in and push them down into the bottom of the oven. Put the lid on and let it simmer 3-4 hours.

I like it all, but ribs and brisket are my favorite, on beef or wild game

Shop the discount bin can find good things at a decent price. Hit it about 9 0r 10 am.

A well cut chuck eye steak is as good as ribeye

Maybe off a supermarket or mid range steak house restaurant beef but not off a high choice or prime carcass.

Is there a reason you grow it that slow? Our spring calves are ready at around 14 months and are fall calves 16 months.

wow that's pretty high. Just got some for 6.73 a # at Sams club here

I was wondering the same thing.

Round steak chewy but tasty.

I like the top blade and round, either top or bottom. They have very good flavor and I still have good teeth to work them over with.

All my beef is cheap. My parents raise a beef every year, if they found out I bought beef instead of raiding their freezer I’d get an earful lol.

Chuck eye is poor mans ribeye very good. Round steak run through tenderizer twice then grilled is good. Ribs and ox tail are my favorite"cheap meat"

I like grilling a chuck roast like it's a steak. I get ribeye end steaks for $6 a lb. So I eat them pretty regular. It is the first steak cut off the loin and the last. They are not a good even thickness. But a good piece of meat for the price.

Porterhouse Steaks

Great choice. Its only money, you can't take it with you

Chopped steak tender and same flavor as a 35 dollar porterhouse

Sirloin

Porterhouse Steaks are on sale this week. $9.99 a Pound for the big pack.

Liver

I like a fatty chuck.

Yup, with a tmr, some people also incorporate pasture. Builds frame and some believe flavor. My 15 monthy olds fatten around 1300 where as my pasture calves fatten around 1500. Makes for a nice check.

All our calves finish around 1500 pounds. Our fall calves are weaned then are on pasture for 5 1/2 months. 330 is taking 2 1/2 year to finish his.

Well I didn't Grow up a Farmer....I just Try
I raise them on low to mid grade pasture. Mineral ...till 20 months 3 months winterized grain mix 3to 5 lbs hay , mineral . Then butcher.
I don't have choice silage.
So what's a better way.?

I was wondering if there was a niche market or other reason that they were that age when they slaughter? Are fall calves just get good hay and moms milk till weaning at 7 months were they will around 550. Then 5 1/2 months of grass. They will come of grass about 800 give or take depending on the year. Then a grower ration at the ranch for a month and a half and weighing about 950. Then to feedlot for the last 120 days. Grain in the grower ration and finish ration. We are blessed with some of the best grass there is here in the flinthills. I'm sure that is some of our advantage. If they aren't on good grass or nursing momma it takes grain products to make them grow. Costly nowadays but it shorts up on the time till slaughter.

^now that man knows how to make beef.
I grew up in Nebraska just north of the Flinthills. My Dad loved that country.

Best cheap beef ... sirloin steak @ $3.99. Good blend of fat and meat for flavor.

Nice food, wolfdog91.

two ways I get cheap beef

the bargain cooler at the grocery where they put all the stuff with damaged packaging or about to reach expiration.
got some nice steaks Saturday from that bin half price we had them yesterday for mothers day super


the other way is Downer cows , I am not a very good butcher for steaks so I get a some out of the back-straps , tenderloins and a few out of the hind quarters then grind the rest.
these are always very very lean because it generally means a stomach issue that was keeping them from eating.

To give you some idea of our cheap beef prices.

Flank steak (on sale) $9.99/lb
Sirloin tip $9.99/lb
cube steak $6.99/lb
top sirloin $10.99/lb
shoulder steak $6.99/lb

I'm seriously jealous of anyone buying beef for $3.99/lb!

Flatiron, or brisket also cheeks.

About a week ago my Wife said I needed to go over to her Sister's to pick up some thing she didn't have room for in her freezers . They had a couple of their beef butchered that week . Came home with about 150 pounds of free beef . We buy very little beef , mostly burger for chili or patties . Ain't even sure what some of this stuff is . Lots of marbling in it . Her Sister said it would grade choice , that a good thing I guess . Cooked up one package of steaks that looked interesting . It was pretty good stuff . We will try to get all these freebies eaten before they get to old . We will be spoiled by then I suppose . Sister-in-Law said they are getting a couple of hogs done up in a few months , and we will need to get some room in the freezer for some of that . Nice to have a hobby farmer in the family . They have a very good income and ranch just because they can . Anyway Wolfie can't tell you what cheap cuts are best , might have an idea about the better stuff in a few weeks after we work on this freezer load .

Just stopped to get a lil breakfast at one of the little local places and ouch !!



It good local beef but geezzz ,think I'll stick with Walmarts yellow stick specials and pork lol

Tenderloin is the best of the best but $28/lb? I was buying Tenderloin from Kroger 3 years ago for $8.99/lb. 8% inflation my foot.

Take a chuck or shoulder steak with good marbling, hack it real good on both sides, I use an old coke bottle, rub in meat tenderizer, black pepper, and garlic salt if you like it, put it in a zip lock bag and then in the refrigerator for a day or two and then grill it for some tender tasty lower price beef.

Chuck eye is the shoulder end of the loin, so it basically a ribeye without the look that most people want. Very good steak for the money. However, with more people being scared off from the price of ribeye, more demand for chuck eye has driven the price of that up as well.

Flank steak has good flavor but has to be cooked right for it to be tender. Lots of good, overlooked cuts available but unfortunately it's all going waaaay up these days.

When I w a s growing up cube stake was 1.25.

Been sticking with the .49 cent chicken leg quarters...10# bags... Beef here is crazy high, even the stuff no one wanted 3 years ago. Costco ribeyes are cheaper then most of the "cheap" cuts. Still high, but cheaper...who would have guessed...

Even brisket is high. I have more than once bought brisket cheaper than burger and just ground it. Not any more. By the time you trim it cost is higher than burger

Those beef shanks really are good cooked like I described though.

For a lesser expensive cut of meat,,Im with you Wolfie on the Chuck Steaks.

we get 1.99 and 2.49 pork a lot , I eat a lot more pork chops , steak than beef steak

I like steak but pork chops satisfy my meat eating most of the time

Try them cooked in a home made BBQ sauce in the oven in a roastpan.
One of my favorite ways to cook bearmeat.

Danny, I used to beer braise short ribs and other tougher chunks in a dutch oven, only with a brown gravy, over egg noodles... good stuff.

Can't tell you the last time I bought beef. To expensive for me.
We buy pork if any store meat.
Live on deer, bear, salmon and walleye.

Its going up in price,but havent had to rustle any yet.

I buy 1/2 beef at a time. We can eat that much fore it freezer burns. About 1/2 the price of a retail store. Time to start shopping again. Bought one in Oct for 3 bucks hanging weight. That included processing.

the beef on the back 40!

All you can afford here is the hoiv3es..and that's a maybe.

If it wasn't for Jerry hunting we'd be vegetarians cause we sure couldn't afford meat from the store

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Favorite cheap cut is cube steak fix with some mashed taters and gravy!

We buy our beef a half at a time though so it all cost the same per pound, so in that case o prefer eating a medium rare ribeye

Chuck eye, flat iron and just get a roast if you can get one for around $3 or $4 a #. I usually check out the store to see what's been marked down to sell quick.

I also eat a lot more pork. It's far more reasonable price wise. If you're in Wal Mart check out the pre packaged pork loins the sell. The honey siriacha is pretty good, I haven't had the jalapeno flavor yet but got a few in the freezer that were reduced down.

We were at the local butcher shop today. I saw where I could buy a hind quarter for $3.29 and that was cut, wrapped and frozen.

Don' t have the figures right now. I'll post later but 1/2 beef bought from the farmer and butchering cost us less per pound than the cost of hamburger bought at grocery store.
just

$2.93#
hamburger is $5.77# at HY VEE

Richfield, Ttown or somewhere else?

^^^Nice!^^^

$2.93 #
just

I would bet that is $2.93 x hanging weight.

I just called about that Yes you are right.
just

Cut and wrapped should be about 55-60% of hanging weight, depending on the type of beef and the shape it is in.

I catch ribeyes on sale at Harris teeter for 8.99-9.99 per lb. I picked up two packs of filet mignon for 10.99 per pound last Friday. I’ll also grab just about anything with a good markdown. It’s hard for me to pass up cheap meat. Grabbed 3 flat iron steaks last week for less than $5.00 for all of them.

Stauffers, near Mt Pleasant Mills.

Moose meat. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.

Hars to beat a cheap cube steak battered and fried with white gravy and mashed potatoes. I could eat one 3 or 4 times a week