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Cheapest beef steak for medium rare
richardw
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I like my steak medium rare, any suggestions for the best value cut for this would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Feather blade is good and cheap - you'd need to ask your butcher for it though, it needs to be cut for frying rather than braising. It's yummy!0
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Aldi (so probably Lidl as well) do very cheap and good quality steaks. We paid around £3.50 for 2 good rump steaks, or about £3ish each for sirloins. They sometimes have rib eye for similar prices, generally cheaper than sirloin and I find it's good cooked slightly longer as the fat is marbled through it and this allows time for it to melt more, even though I generally have my steaks very rare.
Alternatively, skirt steak is a cheap cut and perfectly fine done med rare. Morrisons sell it or most butchers should have it.Proud to be a moneysaver
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depends on where you shop hun - a good butchers will advise you! in a supermarket I usually go for rump steak if its a nice dark red and there is plenty of marbling! a very lean bright red steak WILL be tough!
I prefer ribeye and its usually nice and tender. you can occasionally get Tbone - which is gorgeous!
Sirloin if I cant get anything else - but again it has to be dark red and plenty of marbling fat. I dont like fillet - expensive and although its tender it has very little taste! compared to the other cuts that is!0 -
ALDI have ribeye as a special buy from Thursday for £4.99 per 400g. No idea what it's like but thought it might interest someone 0
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Morrison are advertising £9 Kilo for steak for Valentines meal been on tonightWhy pay full price when you may get it YS
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go to a butcher thats what they are there for. Supermarkets grocers dont know anything about meat.:footie:0
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A few weeks ago I got some *basic*steak from mr.M it was about £2 for nearly a pound in weight, small bits and I fried them in a very hot pan, then put them in crusty rolls with some fried onions and they were so nice we had some more on Friday.
For a main meal size steak I think sainsbug have a special offer on rump at the moment.
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