/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Lamb is a fairly regional thing where its often both low quality and needlessly expensive if you don't live close to places that raise lamb and eat a lot of if. It's delicious but a lot of places just can't get good lamb. Bad lamb is also a much more noticeable dip in quality compared to bad chicken or beef or pork. Add on that it's harder to cook for the average Joe and people just don't bother.

I should buy lamb some time, I haven't had any in over a year.

It's grossly overrated for the simple fact that you can cut them into chops and make the vastly superior crumbed lamb cutlets.

yes, lamb in general is seriously underrated

>>19809297
it's expensive.
i loved it with hummus and naan in the middle east but it's way too much in the states now

good rack

Only brownoids and Australians eat lamb.

>>19809297
Yeah i might have a rack next time i'm feeling like lamb. Usually i have lamb shanks. I think i got screwed last time i had shanks though, even though the shanks were massive and they were pretty chewy so i'm assuming it was Hogget labelled as lamb.
>>19809527
yep
t. australian

new zealanders have lamb as well though dunno bout the uk or ireland

>>19809304
Getting decent lamb is a pain in the ass. I love lamb but I never cook it at home exactly for the reasons you said. The quality is shit and it's insanely overpriced.

>>19809297
It’s too expensive.

It is a bit expensive, but I like it. I wish lamb in general was more popular in the US

>>19809565
Yeah, I do like it though. I've had bad lamb a few times but I have also been to some pretty expensive Brazilian BBQ places and when they serve lamb I'm never disappointed

>>19809608
USA food companies hold us hostage to streamlined “chicken, beef, pork” and fish is an afterthought of “well let’s make sure to keep frozen tuna and salmon in stock with the rest being bottom-eating shit fish from chinkland.” Only see duck before the holidays. Turkey, too. (Unless is it is ground up as a substitute.) Anybody remember lobster tanks in grocery stores or red snapper being cheaper than chicken?

>>19809633
There was basically a war between cattlemen and sheep herders in the U.S. back in the day. The cattlemen won.

Beef is delicious, though...

>>19809297
4channers are peasants who eat instant noodles and things

>>19809633
>his grocery store doesn't still have a lobster tank
Also I get these giant squid tentacle skewers at the fish counter when I go grocery shopping. $2.99 for a foot and a half long skewered giant squid tentacle that amounts to just a little more than a pound. Only sad thing is it's previously frozen but still tastes great.

>>19809633
Sliced turkey is in stores year round, they just don't typically sell whole ones outside of the holidays

>>19809297
Eating sheep not really a thing in burgerstan. I only see lamb or mutton on offer in high-end steakhouses, foreign restaurants, foreign grocery stores (halal markets in particular), and maybe also whole foods).

>>19809633
you can get turkeys year round at my grocery store.

>>19809297
I love lamb but it costs a fucking fortune here in Denmark for some reason.

>>19809297
>underrated
The expression you're looking for is "slept on". If nobody's talking or thinking about a thing it can't be underrated. Just like how 90% of people don't go to church, but don't go around preaching the benefits of atheism.

My mum bought three racks for me to cook for everyone. Gave it a herb crust. My brother said it was the best meal he ate in ages. It certainly was delicious. I did a wine sauce for it too.

>>19810509
>spend all day watching clickbait youtubers and shitposting on /ck/
>20 years old and still live at home
>mom decides to throw you a bone and tricks you into cooking a meal for the family for once since you wont shut up about it
>spend half the day making sure you get everything just right
>dirty every dish in the kitchen
>little brother makes a comment about how it's really good compared to normal weeknight meals
>anon pulls out his phone to gloat on 4chan
>mom takes another sip of the wine that would otherwise have gone to waste to prevent herself from facepalming at the dinner table

>>19810547
What’s with the projection? When I’m not at university I cook at home because I like cooking and my mother me cooking so she’ll buy ingredients. Also how is this gloating, it’s a thread talking about how good lamb racks are? You’re a fag

I made lamb jerky the other day. Its way better than the beef jerky I made with the same marinade.

>>19810547
>anime poster thinks assumes everyone else is a neet like him

>>19810547
nigga i ain't readin all that

>>19810547
your projection is sad, anon. Also, shitting on another's happiness is one of the worst things you can do. stop that.

get some help

>>19810547
>my life is sad and my parents don't like me, that means anon posting about how he feels good about something must be the same!

>>19809645
I wish it was a draw

>>19810547
Top kek

>>19810547
/ck/ meanest board

>>19809297
Aussies, Kiwis and Bongs produce excellent lamb and it's the best tasting meat.

Bongs might have the slight edge over the kiwis but that's subjective, nothing beats a bit of charred lamb fat. Feel sorry for Burgers though, they can't seem to understand lamb.

If I go out to somewhere that has lamb chops/rack as an option, I always get it instead of steak, it's so good and nice as a change of pace

>>19809633
>Anybody remember lobster tanks in grocery stores or red snapper being cheaper than chicken?
Yes, but I lived an hour from the coast.

Also Lamb is too hard to get anything good, just find a local goat guy, the meat isn't as gamey and it's way cheaper. You can buy a whole goat for like $250 and have it butchered.

>>19811281
Unironically this. I feel like everyone is looking to put each other down here. Post anything you cook, no matter how good it is people will insult you

>>19809297
Lamb is by far my favorite meat (well, except my wife's bull's load.) Where I am -- the Most Patrician People's Republic of Minnesota, -- it can be hard to find. Sure, you can get a rack or chops at Costco, but that's OK quality. There's a small butcher shop near me that gets a nice pasture-raised lamb occasionally. I can get some more niche cuts like breast and sirloin steaks.

>>19809633
The U.S Beef cartel destroyed domestic sheep/lamb production. Its a pretty interesting story and is basically a microcosm of the larger problems with the U.S, if you care to look into it.

this shit can be godlike when prepared well. easily one of my favorite foods. too bad the piece costs like 50€/kg here so I have never bought it myself.