/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18363270
You'll be baaaaaaaa-ck for more.

>>18363270
It's expensive and I'd be the only one eating it. But damn it's good

>>18363270
these are pretty good and piss easy to make, I've made persian lamb shanks and lamb vindaloo but the skewers are the best. Cumin, chili/cayenne, salt, MSG, veg oil. Maybe a few sesame seeds. Then grill. Fuck I want me some lamb skewers now.

hickory smoked sweets dried in the desert suck

>>18363270
Not everyone is rich

>spring lamb season in aus/nz
our time has come lambbros

Damn your lamb, I'm a glutton for mutton!

>>18363270
Is lamb expensive in America? It's pretty reasonably priced in the UK

>>18364544
No it's super cheap. Also we aren't living in poverty like you so it's not a problem.

>>18364544
>>18364564
Meat prices have shot up everywhere

It’s great. Certain local Middle-Eastern food parlors sell extremely nice halal lamb. Recently my father went to buy some for my birthday and apparently the clerk fetched half a fucking animal from the backroom and hacked it into ribs and whatnot on the counter. Was delicious.
And they complain that immigration is ruining Europe.

>>18364672
You didn't have lamb before sociopaths started torturing it to death in the name of their imaginary friend?

>>18363344
It costs like 20 € per kg tops. Not that expensive.

>>18364603
Time to eat ze bugz.
Or grow our own chickens in the backyard

>>18364564
Is cheap food the reason behind the ridiculous fatness of Americans?

>>18364676
We did, but the stuff sold by them tastes better. Also, in the EU, the animals must be stunned before their blood is drained, which means that there’s essentially no difference between halal and regular butchering.

>>18363270
>the smaller fatty part in the middle
it's really just the best
wish it weren't so expensive

Mediterranean lamb chop cassarole I made tonight

Biggest problem with a lot of places where the cooks are unfamiliar with lamb, they think it's like pork, so they dry the fuck out of it.
It should be prepared like beef, instead, but good luck asking them to keep it a bit more rare. They're still likely to cook all the moisture out of it. It's very important for lamb/mutton to remain moist, since it's stringier than beef.

>>18363270
lamb is criminally underrated
>>18364544
per weight lamb has always been more expensive you just generally get less in a pack
americans don't really eat it so i think it's relatively more there but everything is cheaper there and they earn more so

>>18364738
could have been so much better

>>18363270
i occasionally buy a whole thigh poke holes in it with a small kbive and push some thyme small garlic pieces and salt and pepper in them, then slow roast in the oven for 3 hours

I wouldn't put lamb even in the top 5 meats

>>18364866
>lamb is criminally underrated
It's not, it's just too expensive compared to beef/pork in the americas. I'd love to buy lamb more often, but fuck it's hard to justify.

I never liked it, but I got some lambs and for the last few months it's the only meat I've been eating.
What to you do with "less desirable" meats? I usually give the heads and necks to my dogs and do meatballs with the scraps. Never tried kebab yet, any good recipe?
And most important, what the fuck do you do with so much fat? I trim all I can because it has too strong flavor and I can't get used to it, but there's so fucking much...

>>18363270
I have went lamb multiple times and I've gone back every single time. It's not really that impressive.

>>18365890
Neck and the undesirable bits make good curry. I hear the rendered fat can be used as candles if the flavour's too strong for cooking with.

>>18364899
slow braised foir 3 hours. Meat was so sticky and tender. 8/10 would make again.

>>18364680
You have not seen the prices in my country.

>>18364680
>literally more than twice the price of pork
>cheap
Yeah, no.

>>18363270
>stinks up your place for three days
no thanks, apollo

>>18364544
$30/lb

lamb used to be the cheap meat but then chinese demand drove prices up

>>18363270
best meat on a hoove

>>18365890
>what the fuck do you do with so much fat?
If I was you, I'd try making sausages. Get whatever lean meat you like, spices and make sausages with that fat.

>>18363270
>he fell for the tomahawk steak meme
You stupid son of a bitch.

>>18364603
What happened in 2013? Lamb War 2 ended?

>>18363282
Lamb is cheaper than beef. It isn't good either. It tastes exactly like sardines.

>>18368334
Problem is, sheep and goat fat has a strong lanolin flavor, so, unless you're accustomed to it, it's going to make everything you add it to smell like wet wool.

>>18368415
>problem is it tastes good but if you're a picky eater [worthless autist or OCD shithead] who can only like things he tasted in pre-teen years you won't like it if you didn't taste it in pre-teen years

>>18368442
Eh, people are picky about all sorts of things, I don't hold it against them. I mean, on this very board, you have regular threads about olives being nasty, or mushrooms, or even raw tomatoes.

>>18368415
have you tried eating lamb, not mutton?

>>18368456
I'm Asiatic-tier when it comes to food, I can eat anything that was alive at one point (as long as it isn't toxic or poisonous).
But I can understand why some people find the smell off-putting.

>>18366817
woolworths doesn't exist anymore chud

>>18364544
I can get a whole lamb slaughtered, processed into various cuts and ground, and delivered to my door for ~ $14/lbs, which comes out to ~ $500. This also grass-fed, pasture raised and all that.
idk if this is good, but its what I found from a small local farm.

The stuff I used to see in grocery stores would probably be about the same price, just not the whole lamb all at once, but this would usually be shipped from Aus/NZ iirc

>>18369168
Meant to add for comparison, a HALF side of beef also processed and delivered from this same local farm would come in around $1000 or $8.50/lbs.
Technically cheaper because you get alot more beef, but also more expensive because you'd have to buy the half cow.

>>18364603
Grrr the butcher at the closest supermarket marks up 2 meager chops to like 20 bucks+ and puts no shanks out
Lamb is my favorite meat
>>18369168
Very cool, still working on my income and kitchen so I can handle whole animals, I have never done that before, curious how do you guys store the goods and use the bits?

>>18369215
>how do you guys store the goods and use the bits?
I have a stand alone freezer (about a $1000, but you can find cheaper, smaller chest freezers) that I keep it in. When its processed they package things up so that its basically like going shopping, just pull out what I think I'll want in about 2 or 3 days and let it thaw in the fridge.

I'm not a huge fan of offal and the like so I end up frying it up for my dogs, but I will sneak bites here and there when it done cooking.
It is expensive up front, but one lamb can bring around 25-35 lbs of meat (half side of beef brings about 100-130 lbs) so it lasts alot longer than you'd think.
And people at the farm are usually pretty cool and down to earth, willing to work with you on types of cuts and stuff.

>lamb
>not mutton

>>18363270
Lamb is best meat fite me irl

When you blend chicken once there ain't no other way.

>>18368406
where tf do you live?

>>18369516
thank you anon
one day I will ascend

>>18364544
In northern California, its near the same price as beef depending on the cut. All imported from NZ or Aus.
>>18365890
When i have excess lamb fat i just render out the oil and use it for cooking the dish.

I was watching videos of Uzbek cuisine and apparently they bred a special type of sheep with ridiculously massive asses, and they render the fat from it for cooking.

>>18369937
>inb4 "that's not the only reason they breed them for"

>>18365890
the fat is essential for middle-eastern cooking, really good shit. Make pilaf or tikkas with it

>>18363416
Anon, fall comes after summer, not spring.

>>18370512
>northern hemi cuck detected

>>18369937
honestly officer I was just helping it over the fence

>>18369588
Where can you get mutton? How's the price compared to lamb? Lamb is all I see anywhere

>>18363278
kek

>>18369937
D U M B A

>>18363270
for me it's veal or venison

I fucking love lamb and mutton. Genuinely i rate it above steak.

>>18365766
is that cos dick is taking the top spot?