rib of beef: supermarket vs butchers?

Farway

Deleted_User wrote: »

Not all local butchers are equal. Some source foreign cheap meat and sell it for the same price as the places that sell good local meat.

And some well known supermarkets sold horse meat in pies

Frugalsod

I would opt for the butcher as well. We are getting 2 ribs of beef for Christmas Dinner. It might be expensive but is well worth it.

Grimbal

Deleted_User wrote: »

Not all local butchers are equal. Some source foreign cheap meat and sell it for the same price as the places that sell good local meat.

we're very lucky with our butchers as they make a point of selling local meat (& others, it's like a little deli in there )

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Local Butcher. Ours has its own abattoir, and only kills what he can sell. All meat is sourced local.

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Farway wrote: »

And some well known supermarkets sold horse meat in pies

And you thing rogue butchers wouldn't do the same if they could get away with it?

Feral_Moon

Some butchers are no better than supermarkets and will buy in large quantities of pre-butchered meat that could have come from anywhere. The ones that sell large trays of meat, often marinaded in various flavours are the type to avoid.

Find a local butcher that sources his meat and poultry from local farms or better still, use a farm shop that raise their own stock. Every butcher has to be able to tell you exactly where their produce comes from. By law they have to keep records available that give source codes.

Grimbal

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Some butchers are no better than supermarkets and will buy in large quantities of pre-butchered meat that could have come from anywhere. The ones that sell large trays of meat, often marinaded in various flavours are the type to avoid.

Find a local butcher that sources his meat and poultry from local farms or better still, use a farm shop that raise their own stock. Every butcher has to be able to tell you exactly where their produce comes from. By law they have to keep records available that give source codes.

Our village butcher (the one in question selling at £18/kg) sources all his meat and produce very locally, so I'm happy enough that the meat is very good. Certainly the standard beef joint seemed to go down well & shrank very very little. I think that with this butchers we're as sure as we can be that it's a "good" butchers