Thread: The price of meat these days is a joke.

Originally Posted by hackmeat

you've been getting ckt (cump knuckle tip) leg, what you are after is abo (aitch bone out).

I'm pleased to report I got a leg of lamb, and we ate it yesterday, and it came "abo", so no buyer's remorse, at having to pay for a lower meat/bone ratio.

Thank you for the definition.

To explain, I'm not just a random grouch, I am a Cordon Bleu Chef and I've boned out more legs of lamb, over the years, than I've stuffed Turkeys, or served Duck a l’orange.

OK OK OK... so here is a SUGGESTION... for both you fine gentlemen..... get out your knife and take the bone out BEFORE you cook it....
I know you have still paid for it..but the hard to carve bit is now gone from equasion.

Someone earlier asked if the chump was still on. I was in the supermarket this morning, I took a close look at all the legs of Lamb.

Most of them were as I've described, with pelvis. Dimensionally, the leg gets to its widest point, but doesn't get narrower again, it just keeps going.

Some pix for illustration ::

First two - British Lamb Legs





Next three, NZ Lamb Legs







c'est la vie

How much a kilo now in Auckland, for the whole leg with bone?

Fresh $22.50, Frozen $14.90

https://www.countdown.co.nz/shop/sea...rch=lamb%20leg

Originally Posted by MarkN

Fresh $22.50, Frozen $14.90

https://www.countdown.co.nz/shop/sea...rch=lamb%20leg

Which is pretty good considering mince is $20 per kg

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Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

Which is pretty good considering mince is $20 per kg

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Venison mince is only 10 bucks a kilo and better for you.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Venison mince is only 10 bucks a kilo and better for you.

I know I never buy mince always process my own venison and sheep and mince my own trimmings.
Venison is the nicest meat ever.

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in similar fashion..... was at mates the other day picking up pork..he did something with front roast/squarecut shoulder,Ive never seen done before...and buggamesideways I cannot for life of me work out why ever not...he took the ribs n spine off the roast..so it only has the shoulder bones themselves in it...MUCH more simple to carve and again only a few seconds of knife work to achieve it....this I shall DEFINATELY be doing from this day forth LOL

i do that with all my fqr roasts if i dont have any netting. a extra few swipes make it boneless and net it .

A few extra swipes for you is 15 minutes work for us average guys.

Watching pro butchers makes you want to wear wire cloths when cutting up animals the speed they work at

The local P and S shops around here (BOP) usually sell lamb legs with the chump off. It gets down do about $12 / kg They also sell whole cuts at goodish prices of beef. I wait untill it gets low ( which natuarally isnt as low as it was a year or so ago) but you can get whole rump for around $12 / kg. I can portion that into smaller roast or turn it into very good corned beef, mince what I fuck up and carve steaks out of it as well. They also do a run on venison every now and then, you can get minced venison for as little as $11 / kg.
While I realise that the farmer is getting not much of this as pay, its still not unaffordable from a consumer aspect, if you are carefull about what you buy.
That lamb roast is split into 3 main meals these days for me and the bride. Shank meat fror a pie or stew, rump roast and you can steak or do a rolled roast off the inner thigh bit. So that $26 chunk of meat will effectively become 8 indiivdual meals, plus two snacks of leg bone for the dog.
The last rump I broke down went into 6 x 500 gram packs of mince and a 1.75 KG chunk that is getting corned in the fridge as we speak. I froze and minced the fat cap to add to sausages at a later date.I think that rump cost close to $70 give or take But it will make over 20 meals.
So by my guesstimates we are eating $3.50 per meal per person, in meat alone.

Would I like to get farm fresh meat, yes of course. but I cant handle the freezer space needed these days.

Damn mathematics! I just realised I spent more on the barbeque charcoal than the lamb I burnt in it today!