Cheapest tinned corned beef (340g)??

Haffiana

Plus I always thought that Argentinian (and Brazilian) beef was cheap because it was the only possible farming product for the gazillion square miles of utterly uncultivated pampas grassland. This produced a fairly lean and slightly tough beef that was ideal for corning.

A quick google seems to suggest that intensive 'feedlot' cattle farming is not the norm, and that the legal space requirements are far greater than the neighbouring USA?

SailorSam

Haven't they only got a gazillion square miles of cattle farms 'cos they keep chopping the rainforest down. Once the grass has gone they leave it and chop more trees down.

A._Badger

SailorSam wrote: »

Haven't they only got a gazillion square miles of cattle farms 'cos they keep chopping the rainforest down. Once the grass has gone they leave it and chop more trees down.

Not much rainforest in Argentina. And no bulldozers in Uruguay, when the trade began in the 19th Century. Haffiana was right, as I understand it.

kerri_gt

The French one in Asda is called 'Kates Kitchen' - I saw it today.

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp?trailSize=1&searchString=kates+kitchen&domainName=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=129337

Quite interested in the discussion about the space cattle are 'allowed' in South America vs USA. Although I'm assuming the cattle in South America are still being fed corn (which apparently cattle aren't designed to digest).

compmad1

avstar wrote: »

I buy the Aldi corned beef and use it to make a Caribbean Corned Beef dish my MIL taught me.

I bought the Aldi one. Key snapped off . Husband tried to open with tin opener and screw driver. He managed to give himself a very nasty deep cut on one of his fingers. What a stupid design!!!! Shan't buy a tin with that type of opening again.

A._Badger

kerri_gt wrote: »

The French one in Asda is called 'Kates Kitchen' - I saw it today.

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp?trailSize=1&searchString=kates+kitchen&domainName=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=129337

Quite interested in the discussion about the space cattle are 'allowed' in South America vs USA. Although I'm assuming the cattle in South America are still being fed corn (which apparently cattle aren't designed to digest).

If you mean 'corn' as in 'corned beef', the word refers to the 'corns' of salt which are used as part of the preserving process.

http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/CornedBeef.htm

As far as I am aware, South American cattle eat grass. In many respects they are probably better-off than British cattle, many of which live much of their lives inside and, as we learned from the BSE scare, have been fed some of the vilest stuff on earth..That may have improved since the regulations were tightened following the cull, but I'd need some convincing.

Stompa

compmad1 wrote: »

I bought the Aldi one. Key snapped off . Husband tried to open with tin opener and screw driver. He managed to give himself a very nasty deep cut on one of his fingers. What a stupid design!!!! Shan't buy a tin with that type of opening again.

Sounds like you need one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kuhn-Rikon-Safety-Lifter-White/dp/B001UK1BM0/

Works a treat on corned beef cans, and every other type of can I've ever tried it with. They can be found more cheaply in the likes of TK Maxx, Homesense, etc.

julietiff

My electric tin opener works on cornbeef tins too, when we can afford it!