Rump steak for £1.82 per kg?! Daily mail knows something I don't..

joeyboy · 24 February 2013 at 6:58PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2283184/Want-sure-whats-lasagne-Make-mince-expert-guide.html

If you look at the section reviewing the last mincer the woman writing the article mentions she got rump steak for £1.82 per kilo and pork loin for £1.41 per kilo from her butcher, which she says would cost around £6-8 per kg in the supermarket. The butcher assures her it's "far superior to ready-packed meat".

Now I don't know where she lives but those sort of prices sound insane to me? Even her supermarket estimations seem off, I have Tesco and Sainsburys near me and rump steak is more like £10 per kg and that's the cheap stuff, pork loin sounds about right though.

Anyway our local butcher is the type to do deals on bulk buys and it's a pretty cheap place, cheaper than supermarkets by a fair margin, but certainly not to the extent you'd be able to get 1kg of rump steak for £1.82!

Does anyone have any idea how she came up with those numbers, I mean it can't even be a decimal point in the wrong place because that would make it too expensive and illogical in the context of her argument?

I'm thinking maybe this butcher of hers is involved in the horse meat trade eh?

lindseykim13 · 24 February 2013 at 9:57PM

They probably missed an extra 1 off the pounds lol

stephen77 · 24 February 2013 at 10:39PM

sounds to cheap to me. That is cheaper than trade prices for the raw materials.
Even if the butcher got lbs mixed up with kg its still cheap.

THough mincing meat yourself does not gaurantee its not horse and not beef, as the average person would not be able to tell the difference. Its not like your seeing the bull slaughtered in front of you.

RHYSDAD · 24 February 2013 at 11:59PM

Someone's talking out of their bottom. Even Sainsburys has bog standard rump at just under a tenner a kilo. My butcher would charge somewhere near £20 a kilo. You'd struggle to get the boot fair meat van to come up with £1.80 a kilo for rump!!!!

Fire_Fox · 25 February 2013 at 4:38AM

Rump steak of what animal, third world street dog?

Good on people mincing at home tho!

Murphybear · 3 March 2013 at 10:47PM

I think most of the time you get what you pay for where meat is concerned. My OH came home with some 'bargain sirloin' and it had a lot of fat and chewy bits and the lean was, not to put a finer point on it, like the back end of a donkey! Last Christmas on a rare trip to Waitrose their fresh meat counter had vastly over ordered fillet steak and they were selling it at half price. We bought some for the freezer, it was fab!