/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14793396
Stick them down your pants and steal them, otherwise fuck off.

Eat less steak but instead more of the ones you want. If you are poor you have to make compromises. What I did was also befriending the local butcher who sells me steaks really cheap or outright gives them away if he isn't legally allowed to sell them anymore.

>>14793396
Most people eat far more meat than they have any reasons to, and Americans eat far too much red meat.
You are the reason steak is so expensive, we sell our beef to you- how dare you complain to us that you can't afford it.

Just buy chuck and curry it, most butchers sell offcuts because they don't know how to do their jobs and this is also perfect for goulash or curry.

>>14793396
Hunt + kill cows get your own steaks.

>>14793568
>the poor man who can't afford steak is the reason why steak is expensive–how dare you not be able to afford steak. It is all your fault!
wat

>>14793396
Own a cow

>>14793396
>have a sams club membership
Not going to help as much as you want.

Figure out if there's a wholesale butcher that supplies restaurants near you. Ideally they'll be doing their own cutting; bring in packer cuts, trim into steaks.
Figure out if they have a cash and carry store.
Go there and see if you can snag irregular cuts.
Learn to thaw frozen steaks.

T-Bones are premium pricing for bone. Even if you do stick that big bone in your mouth, it's going to come back out.
See if you can get strip steak instead.

If youre on minimum wage you have a few options the way i see it

1)Treat yourself like once a month to a nice steak dinner

2)Buy cheaper steaks like flank or skirt steak

3)Make roasts out of things like chuck instead of making steak that way itll fill your craving for fatty beef

4)If your grocery store has a "on sale" section of their meat cabinet always be on the lookout. They usually put stuff on deep discount that they have to sell or it goes bad. This is what I do for cheap steaks. I find on mondays there's usually house marinated stuff or weird cuts like flat iron for like 40% off.

5)Save up and purchase a 1/2 or 1/4th of a cow once a year. See pic. This is west coast prices, most states have 4$/lb hanging weight which works out to about $6.13 per lb of a take home meat. Of the 100ish lbs 1/4 cow will only work out to about 10 lbs of nice steaks (ribeye, filet) and about 5 lbs each of short rib and cheaper steaks (flank, skirt, etc.) though.

You could also learn to cook shortrib. https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/05/the-best-inexpensive-steak-for-the-grill-part-3.html

Or do what anon suggested above and shove all the meat down your pants at the grocery store.

>>14793396
Rustle cattle like it's the 1800's.
Keep the cows in your backyard and slaughter them onsite.
Give neighbors some spare ribs to keep them quiet.

>>14793396
Just accept that you're not going to be eating steak very often and work on improving your situation first.
Your first thought should not be going to a restaurant either.

>>14793396
>small

My sams has 4 packs of thick boiz, almost 2' cut. One serves the wife and me no problem so I freeze them and basically have a steak week every month for 25-30$

>>14793396
sous vide. you can turn the shittiest cuts halfway decent in the sous vide. been popping tri tip in there for 6 hours, breddy gud

>>14794188
Fuck you for ruining perfectly good tri-tip.

Go like an hour or so before the store closes, generally the butchers will have closed already and will put out meat close to expiration with a discount sticker on it. Works for fish too. Also after summer holidays, load up on it. I got a bunch of "Family Packs" of Prime T-Bones marked down to about $20 from $55 right after the 4th.

>>14793396
beef is expensive. learn to enjoy other types of meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c9q6zVp-I

>>14794328
Like rat meat or pigeon

>>14794712
Steak is not the only cut a cow has you absolute brain dead spazz

>>14793396
>Like im living on minimum wage paycheck to paycheck
Get a better job, amigo.

>>14793396
Hello dear american brother I'm sorry to hear that. You can do dumpster diving like most americans.

Chuck eye
Flat iron
Spencer

>>14793396
if you're poor then stop buying steak.
just buy mince and learn to enjoy burgers.

Live within your means
If there are things you want that are beyond your means, get a better job.

>>14793568
Fuck off vegan

Don't buy the meat as steak, buy it as a whole piece of meat or a roast, then cut it into steaks yourself and freeze it.

>>14793396
I get cheap marked down steak all the time but usually the best I get is NY strip or petit mignon for about 4 dollars a pound.

>>14793396
Skip breakfast and lunch

Buy choice filet mignon and tenderize it and torch the fuck out of it (dont let it get soggy)

Beef jerky

But mostly just skipping meals to save money

>>14793568
>too much red meat
Based on what my friend? Our red meat consumption has not really increased since the 50s and we can't deny we're worse off than then health-wise.

As the famous D'artagnan would say- Sleep is the poor man's dinner.

>>14794979
why not just buy a cow, jesus

Buy roasts and primals, portion out steaks and freeze them shits. Costs more up front but costs less per steak. In fact, I'm buying tenderloin this weekend cuz it's $5.99/lb and portioning off fillet steaks myself.

I'm a welfare deadbeat and I eat steak every day because I don't waste my money on garbage

>>14795316
buying half and quarter cows is more popular then you'd think and you get better quality beef. Although you need to actually know how to dress and cook some of the less popular cuts

https://www.farmfoodsmarket.com/products/quarter-grass-fed-cow-x-all-costs-covered-including-free-shipping?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=7421279190&utm_term=&utm_content=392346183098&adgroupid=81125147736&device=c&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqrb7BRDlARIsACwGad4NoK62VI4pwklpaUfPo20f5X_1gLjdI5fZ-04grdgWFBx1VBnuvBkaAo4PEALw_wcB

If youre poor just avoid steaks and stick with pork and chicken.

>>14794276
spotted the guy who doesnt know how sous vide works!

Slice the steaks in half so you can double the meals you get out of them. Save whatever trimmings you have from the plates in the freezer, then grind them up when you have a pound for steak burgers. You can also inject broth into your steaks to make them bigger, making you eat less.

>>14793578
Cow wrangling can get you killed, anon

>>14793396
steak is for virgins.
real men eat tough cuts
>>14797088

>>14797192
literally first thing under chad is beef

I had this tonight anon. It tastes better than beef and it's more healthier for you. If you can afford it in the future you should try it out.

DNA packages from butcherbox and similar companies. Hundred dollars of meat for 0 dollars and 0 risk.

>>14797352
>beef=steak
brainletwojak.jpg

>>14797483
Definition of beef
1 : the flesh of an adult domestic bovine (such as a steer or cow) used as food

>>14793396
>minimum wage
>I want t bones/porterhouse and prime rib not cheap
retard

>>14797598
your point being?

>>14798901
do you not know who to use 4chan my newfren?

Where should one look to get beef by the quarter or half?

>>14799003
>still not getting the point
are you drunk or something?

>>14793396
Peel the label off a pack of pork chops and put it on some ribeyes. Or if your store has self checkout, “forget” to scan the steaks and hide it among a bunch of cheap food.

>>14800331
>Or if your store has self checkout, “forget” to scan the steaks and hide it among a bunch of cheap food.
This doesn’t work, the weight scale won’t let you finalize the purchase

>>14800365
>excuse me wagie, the machine has locked me out, can you type in your code for me?
and they will, every time, and won’t bother checking (unless you make it super obvious or are black)

>>14800305
the point is you said
>beef=/=steak
to which i gave the definition of beef

>>14800432
brb getting my brain checked for lumps

>>14793396
do your own butchering. by an entire tenderloin and butcher it yourself.
you can buy one for like $150-$200 and easily get 15-20 steaks out of it. you keep the rest in the freezer and take one out whenever you'd like.

>>14797375
>it's more healthier for you
explain

Hangar steak (onglet) - not easy to find, but one of the cheapest cuts going, and superior to far more expensive ones.

>>14793568
the evidence against eating red meat is incredibly eak

>>14797116
You’re thinking of cow rustling

Get a truck and a gun and hunt some cows.

>>14794712
>he's never had squab

>>14801811
squab is overrated and way too expensive, quail is the supreme small fowl meat