Identify my steak please PH masses?

[Pixel-Snapper]

So just been the meat counter at sainos, asked the monkey behind the counter for a PH sized cut of fillet steak.

Got home and the label he had stuck on said brasing steak!!!!

Now im unsure if it is fillet or brasing, i've looked at pictures on google but i cant tell. Or have I just got a fillet steak for brasing prices.



Dont really want to cook it like a steak if its for brasing. Might have to think of a different way to cook it for dinner if it is.

[FestiveFreddy]

It doesn't look like fillet to me.

Just cut a bit off and eat it raw and you'll soon find out.

[Stoatman]

Hmm , doesn't look like a traditional shape a fillet steak would be . Have you got a frame of reference easily available for size ? Difficult to tell on the pic.

Not too much fat though , if it is fillet you may have just got the bargain of the day if he pressed braising steak instead when weighing it.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Well the white plate you can just about see underneath it is a small side plate its 440g if that helps.

[21TonyK]

Thats either the most obscure weird piece of fillet ever or it's "something" else. Doesn't really look like braising steak though, not grainy enough although the piece on the bottom edge looks like it's very fiberous so could be "best end".

My money would be on braising steak. If it was fillet they wouldn't have cut it that way, even supermarkets have real butchers on site (usually).

Few butchers on here should pick it out accurately although maybe not in time for dinner tonight...

[dazco]

It looks 100% like fillet to me. Did you get charged for fillet?

[Pixel-Snapper]

The more I look at it the more i think it is brasing. But I did hear the guy that was serving say that he didnt normally work on the meat counter so he wasnt a butcher.

going to fry a peice and try it.

[Plotloss]

It's not fillet.

In a fillet the fibres run top to bottom, look at the bottom half of that steak, left to right.

[Pixel-Snapper]

dazco said:

It looks 100% like fillet to me. Did you get charged for fillet?

No got charged as brasing.

The price for the fillet would of worked out to about £8 I payed £3.40.

[21TonyK]

Pixel-Snapper said:

No got charged as brasing.

The price for the fillet would of worked out to about £8 I payed £3.40.

You got braising then.

Chilli it is

[Pixel-Snapper]

Just fryed all be it a small peice and its not chewy like brasing would be.

[21TonyK]

In which case it's a nice chilli

Defo. not fillet unless they've cut it very oddly and found something else connected at the head end.

Maybe a mutated fillet?

Did you cut a fatty or lean bit?

[Mobile Chicane]

No way is it fillet.

If fillet, it can be 'encapsulated' in more sinewy bits, but it should be round, which that piece isn't. Look at the left-hand side - it's been cut off something else.

Still looks like a decent piece of meat though (hopefully you got it cheap). I'd get that straight into the slow cooker for a rich casserole or unctuous pie filling

[Pixel-Snapper]

It was a lean bit tony?

I think the monkeys had me hasnt he.

Looks like i'll be sticking this bit in the freezer and going back over the road to sainos and get a proper steak.

Kind of got my heart set on steak now.

Actually might but it in the fridge and make a steak and ale pie tomorrow.

[IanA2]

Nice enough bit of braising steak if a little red for my taste. A few vegs and a spot of red wine and you'll have a lovely stew in a few hours!

Deffo not fillet.

[21TonyK]

Go get a decent bit of rib eye and have done with it! That ones for the freezer.

Dare you to ask for "hanger steak like they had on telly last night"

[Pixel-Snapper]

To be honest im not going back to that donkey.

I might aswell go and get a pre packed one.

[21TonyK]

This is what you want...



His'n'hers rib eyes. Cheap cash and carry rib at £5.99 a kilo(!!!) Not as good as what I would normally take home but the meat fridge was a bit bare at work after Xmas so had to "make do"

Edited by 21TonyK on Thursday 5th January 19:34

[calibrax]

21TonyK said:

His'n'hers rib eyes. Cheap cash and carry rib at £5.99 a kilo(!!!) Not as good as what I would normally take home but the meat fridge was a bit bare at work after Xmas so had to "make do"

They look quite fatty for ribeyes, but hey, at that price I certainly wouldn't be complaining! Absolute bargain.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Well went for rump in the end and I'm now stuffed.



The brasing steaks gone in the slow cooker with veg and a nice bottle of 10.5% Gulden Draak belgian beer.