/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11246564
btw im gay, don't know if that matters

>>11246564
It doesn't "fuck up" the meat per se, it just doesn't taste as good as it otherwise could.

The taste is clearly different, and some people prefer one over the other. Try both and see which you like better.

>>11246564
Go visit Alberta. Have a steak. Maybe prime rib to get the intense beef flavor. Then go to Omaha and do the same. Decide for yourself which you like.

And no, don't get the meat from Applebee's.

>>11247185
Oh, it matters.

>>11246564
Straight grass-fed is a meme. It's tough, frequently gamey, and lacks sufficient fat, but hipsters think it's the only way to avoid the garbage that comes out of the U.S. feedlots.

Grain isn't evil when used as an adjunct to pasture, but the recent trend in the U.S. has been to ignore pasture completely, and to over-rely on maize and soy. That wasn't always the case.

What you want is but grass-raised, grain-finished. Preferably it should be finished on something like barley rather than maize (Western Canadian beef usually falls into that category).

>>11246564
Grass fed has a stronger, 'beefier' flavor, but generally has markedly less fat and marbling. Not always, but usually.

Like >>11247421 says, the happy medium is cattle that is fed grass most of its life and then finished on grain to add extra fat before slaughter. I will say that straight grass-fed is fantastic for braising cuts like short ribs, where the cooking method will create all the tenderness you could want, which counteracts any tradeoff you'd get from straight grass feeding while keeping the benefit, which is a more intense flavor.

>>11246564
Cattle do not eat corn naturally, they actually have to "learn" to like it. Beef producers mix it in with their feed in small proportions beginning at several weeks of age. By the time they're six months old, the cattle will eat corn as fast as the person feeding them can shovel it out.

If you give a calf straight corn the first time, they will not recognize it as food and will refuse to eat it.

>>11247421
>grass-raised, grain-finished
yes. this is how theextraordinary high end meats are all done

I'm tired of the memefucks who are all "muh 100% grass fed"

what kind of fucking retard would prefer giving corn to cows

feed cows grass, you know, the thing they were mean't to eat, retards

>muh marbling

fuck off, plenty of fat in healthy grass cows, and the gaminess is good not bad if you have taste, learn to cook if your steaks are coming out tough

fucking savages, why not pump the cows full of corn syrup while you're at it

>>11246564
If you're intending to become an old miserly faggot watching the world go to hell, eat very little meat and lean as fuck ... so grassfed.

If you want to enjoy life and die young, eat beef fattened on grain for as much of its life as you can afford.

>>11246564
Do I pick parasitic worms or pathogenic E.coli...
I'll try the vegan meat.

>>11250846
Thanks to us the manure with the worms and e-coli gets dumped on the veg too :)

PS. don't forget the multiple drug resistant microbes.