/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14956716
there was a time quite recently when you could get tuna bellies for free at the fishmonger if you asked because they were just throwing them away

>>14956716
The double edged sword of cuisine moving beyond the 90s and early 2000s of "NEW BIGGER BOLDER FASTER MORE PROCESSED". Now people want real ingredients, pussies.

You can still just buy whatever the cheapest cut of any given meat is and learn how to cook it.

>>14956716
What the hell is the top left? Looks like ox tail but why are there 4 fucking bones?

>>14957296
It's four pieces of oxtail squished together you nincompoop.

>>14956716
tfw strip steak is as expensive as ribeye now

>>14956716
ox tail - skirt
spare rib - tritip
shin osso cut - ????

what is bottom right?

>>14957033
>yeah you can still just buy beef chuck at 95% the price of good steak
I don't think you understand just how kiked the meat market is in some places.
Time to start the cat food bulk.

>>14956716
>tfw literally less than two years ago brisket, short ribs and chuck were dirt cheap
>Now all pricey
Chuck is virtually the same price per kilo as fucking porterhouse and eye fillet.

Time to eat pork

>>14956716
Is there anything left that is cheap?

>>14957521
offal but that probably won't last either.

>>14957003
>Now people want real ingredients, pussies.
As opposed to a hundred years ago when "real ingredients" were all that existed?

>>14956716
My local butchers throw away so much meat that they decided to all over-price the cheap cuts so that they don't undercut themselves.

They don't even get chickens in anymore so nobody sells chicken necks or livers.

Fuck I hate 2020

Meat is only cheap because it's subsidized by the federal government. Only poorfags think the price of beef is expensive. All you poverty losers could never afford beef if it wasn't subsidized. Meaning I eat prime ribeye or filet near everyday. Lmao

>>14957564
no. you don't. you suck middle class closet homo dick in the walmart parking lot every day just to pay your phone bill.

>>14957521
I was very suprised how cheap chicken legs can be at some butchers.
Offal is reasonably cheap if you can find it.
Also offcut bones for using in soup can be had very cheap. Couple dollars per kilogram.

>>14957488
Looks like a nice fatty chuck roast.

>>14957521
Yeah just heart and liver now, both of which are pretty fucking good

>>14957632
fk me lol. i litteraly had chicken heart pie tonight and the taste was insanely good. froced myself to put the rest away or id overeat it and feel sick.

Organ meats are the best, hands down.
>cheap
>tasty
>VERY nutritious
>CHEAP

>>14957642
>cheap
chinks and hipsters drove the price up here
they're now more expensive than good cuts of meat
WHY YES I DO LOVE PAYING MORE FOR LIVER AND HEART THAN I DO THE ACTUAL GOOD PARTS OF THE ANIMAL
I just want to live for cheap RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE

>>14957564
>Comes to meat threads on an image board for chinese cartoons to brag about his immense wealth

>>14957642
>chicken heart pie
recipe?

>>14957837
>THAN I DO THE ACTUAL GOOD PARTS OF THE ANIMAL

lol; ngmi, you'll be eating bugs in no time like a good boy.

>>14957846
3 parts diced hearts, 1 part mince, 1 large onion, 1/2 cup black beans (soaked or you can buy the tinned stuff, thats fine too) 1 carrot and chicken bone broth, ( or stock for more salt) Gravy powder OR Gelatin. 1 pie dish, 1sheet shortcrust pastry, 1 sheet puff pastry, 1 egg

cook the hearts on medium heat oil of preference until grey/browning (hearts take longer or they'll be chewy and tough. add enough broth until small layer allows hearts to simmer for about 5/10 minutes longer then add mince and cook all the way through. Add onions first and put lid on to maintain moisture until starting to go transparent.

Then add the rest (beans, carrot) and season with pepper and more broth. cook on high and stir until liqud is about to dissapear. Then add a good splash of redwine, some more broth and your choice of the gelatin or gravy, (this time i chose gravy for a bit more salt content and i wanted a little juice in my pie when comeplete.) stir until mixed and then set on medium/low-low to condense while preparing the crusts.

take the tin, grease with butter and then very lighty dust with flour (this helps stop it sticking to the pietin) and wedge the shortcrust into the base and sides, being careful of airpockets underneath, use excess pastry to even up the sides.

When the cooked inner pie ingredients is to your thickness and moisture, pour into pietin evenly (its okay if it rises a little above the edge, just means you'll have a sexy thicc pie) and gently cover the surface with the puff pastry makign sure to weld the puff and shortcrust together (fancy pattern pleats up to you) take excess and make a shape or little lines and spell your name on the top.

Take the egg and seperate it, keeping the yolk. Mix yolk with a little water and then paint the pie with the mixture (makes it nice and golden). Put into oven at 140 (celcius for fanforced) for 20/30 minutes then 200 for 5/10 minutes. Let it cool for about 5 and then dig in. Wala; food.

>>14957490
just eat dog. people practically give the things away.

>>14956716
next time you read a statistic about CPI inflation from the (((bureau of labor statistics))) just think about the price of food.

>>14958038
>want to get dog for family
>a golden retriever that isn't congenitally retarded is like 5k now
what the FUG
even mutts have retarded prices now because 99% of dogs get spayed and all the post-wall childless women want one

>>14960020
>breeder logic
The cost is what the market will bear. If you can't afford kids then don't have them

p.s. shelter dogs are free, get a pittie and if you play your cards right it will liberate you of the crotch spawn menace

It's only going to get worse. Dark meat chicken will soon be expensive. Within our lifetime, we will see meat become so expensive that it will be a rare treat outside of the extremely wealthy.

Steak doesn't taste like it used to, here in the Netherlands when I was a kid my parents got steak from a butcher in another village and it was amazing. These days you just get chewy leathery crap.

>>14957614
I somewhat hate the chicken leg market ... it got fucked over so the some stores just don't carry the quarter so now instead of getting 3 times as much meat for half that of a drumstick I have to get drums or thighs at a worse per lb rate. I blame lazy fucks that don't want to do 5 minutes of prep.

>>14957521
Chicken thighs still go $4 for 8 in my area.
Legs are somewhat more expensive but not bad.

>>14956716
15 years ago no-one wanted pork tenderloin. it was cheaper than chicken breast. then faggots like jamie oliver started using it now it's tripled in price.

>>14960083
i hate him but i bet he makes good bbq. id eat one meal with him to give him a chance. maybe hes just insane and needs someone to talk to.

>>14961388
that’s crazy...in TX pork loin and tenderloin are, by far, the cheapest cuts in the grocery; even bone-in thighs are more expensive; I can get a whole loin for ~$8 now

>>14962277
should clarify NORTH Tx, it’s a massive state, so can’t speak for North Mexico, Oil Rig Wasteland, Almost New Mexico, or Katrina Refugeeville

>>14957564
You are almost certainly an overpaid middle management depressed retard who doesn’t know how to do anything but fill out Excel sheets and who is going to kill himself before he’s 50. Don’t come in here to chastise anyone.

>>14961941
no after a long enough conversation he'd probably out charisma you and the cognitive dissonance would make you go mildly insane.

>>14960031
>>>reddit.com/r/childfree

>>14960083
My grandmother grew up with meat being so expensive they could only eat it a couple times a year.

>>14956716
do westerners really

>>14957603
fuck him up

>>14956716
Take the offal pill, faggot. Heart, liver and chicken gizzards are dirt cheap.

Aren't chicken hearts really high in cholesterol?

>>14956716
I'm pretty sure shank steak is not a butch cut. it's a poors cut and the only good thing about it is the small bit of marrow.

>>14956716
butcher cuts were small off cuts that are one offs or really fatty and tender but aren't really sellable because they don't look good.

most of those are NOT butcher cuts.

>>14963314
Chicken in general is pretty high in cholesterol, hearts just more so. If the rest of your diet is fine it's meaningless.

Rate my supermarket's weekly meat deals.
Sometimes i can get usda black angus prime sirloin, porterhouse, ny strip etc for around 7.99/lb, is that cheap?
NJ/NY metro area

>>14963412
So pretty much the cuts that just gets thrown in a bucket and then in the mincer (along with other stuff of course seeing as you don't get that much in a day), yes?

>>14963449
That seems like a good price, a lot on that flyer is stupid cheap but things like the back ribs is stupid expensive instead. Does not compute

>>14962277
>>14962283
I'm in Australia. We sell everything to overseas mussies or chinks so the price skyrocketed here.

>>14957521
Chicken thighs are still cheap as shit because most people prefer breast for some fucking reason. Organ meat will probably stay cheap for a long time as well.

I live in center city Philly and can get chicken thighs and breasts for $1 a pound when it's on sale ($2 regular at Wegmans if there are no sales anywhere). Pork tenderloin is $2.79 a pound if you buy 4. 94/6 ground turkey is $9 for a 3lb container. Strip steak is $8.49 a pound if you get 4 too. Those are my usual go to items for cheap, healthy meat. Sometimes I also stop by a local butcher and pick up some chicken liver which are pretty cheap.

>>14956716
Cuts prices went to shit because hipsters started buying them.

>>14962651
Go to Japan. It's still basically that unless you count those meager two slices you get. Or learn to love chicken for tiny yakitori servings.

>>14960031
>pittie
fuck off and kys white trash/nigger shit

>>14963596
Thought hipsters were all about soy and estrogen

ITT: poorfags getting butthurt at supply and demand and blaming it on hipsters so they have something tangible to be upset about
>>14957521
Beef neck and shins are still fairly cheap; same with eye of round but that's trash. The best cuts of pork are still relatively cheap and so are chicken quarters.

>>14963449
Hello fellow Jersey Cityzen.

>>14961941
A large part of his persona is an act.

>>14964062
Sup bro, I'm ward B

>>14956978
wtf do you do w/ tuna bellies

>>14963314
Cholesterol is important in testosterone production. It's branded as "unhealthy" but in reality most people who have high cholesterol have shitty physiques and high salt intake.

It could be worse. I live in Canada and most stores don't even stock high quality beef, they just ship it off to China because it makes them waaaay more money.

>>14964518
cook em eat em

Twice got the entire skin of a salmon at a supermarket sushi place. Really nice

>>14964566
exactly. It's like those who keep bleating ancient lines like "le fat is bad lmao". Good diet and exercise regime will always be the bigger player unless that persons hobby is eating lead etc.

>>14964456
No way, so am I. I usually go to one of the Ctowns because Shoprite feels like a cattle pen.

>>14966039
Wat, Ctown is literally a rat maze, the one by journal square is crazy cramped, and the rebranded one on west side once had to close down temporarily because their butcher failed the health inspection
If theres one thing that the downtown shoprite has, its open space by the meat and refrigeration section

>>14963615
Just trying to help you find a way out of your mess, breeder. Ultimately it is your problem to deal with, not mine. I know how to use contraceptives.

>>14966244
>the one by journal square is crazy cramped
It's not that bad, plus the manager is the only grocery chain employee I've ever seen that doesn't seem to hate his job. The West Side Ave one is mostly terrible but has a pretty wide range of shelf-stable ingredients. You're mostly right though, the grocery situation here is abysmal.
Keystone Foods on Jersey used to be my go-to before I moved to Ward B.

>>14966279
I dont know what it is man, the ctowns and bravos have no space, the acme is crazy expensive, and shoprite is outta stock with shit i used to like.
I mean, the only reason i go downtown for it is because they have black angus deals nearly every week, and the ice cream's cheap too, so i guess they got that goin for them

>>14957521
>>14963553
Chicken breasts are actually pretty cheap if you get them with the skin and bones, at least in my country. They taste a lot better too.

>>14963611
>tfw moving to japan soon
i'm gonna be desperate for protein before long

>>14956716
>sirloin
>>>/trash/

>>14966321
I think the situation is so shit because JC gentrifying at a breakneck pace, so there are a handful of old-school specialty shops like Maloney's that sell decent stuff, a ton of shitty green grocers that have been getting away with serving refuse to poor people, a few shitty to middling large groceries that have jacked up their prices for the newcomers but haven't increased their quality, and a bunch of new high-price specialty stores. I'm not sure what the prices are like, but the new Keystone Foods just got an update and actually seems pretty good now.
Have you ever been to Ando? I've been meaning to get some duck there but wonder about the quality.

>>14966375
>Have you ever been to Ando?
Occasionally, I actually live on Duncan ave lol. if i go to a sidewalk grocery its usually for some individual veggies or a gallon of milk lol, cant tell you about the butcher cuts there though, i usually just pivot to the ctown. or I head over to indian square for the spices.

>>14966516
>I actually live on Duncan ave lol
Holy shit, so do I. It's nice to know that somewhere out there there's a fellow co/ck/ checking expiration dates at the local shitty grocer.

>>14960031
Pitbulls are for inferior human trash. They are mongrels in every modern sense that we ascribe to the word. Anybody who owns one is a fucking apologist for that breed. Notice how nobody is apologizing for labradors or bulldogs?

>>14966702
there is only one breed you bigot; THE DOG BREED!

>>14957540
unironically yes

>>14957521
chicken leg quarters are probably the best deal i can get around here. ranch steak too, but it has limited application

>>14966331
You'll love seitan before you know it