My dream was to make a steer all steaks. Sounded impossible. But with the waygus we got and the mix with our cattle, you get just that. My daughter started her own feed lot. I bought just a side of a half waygu and it filled my freezer. Errry cut is a steak. It's the best beef I've ever had. She sells quite a bit of beef now. But since the calf prices are going up they will hold back a bit. I know there is a lot of negative thoughts on waygu, I can tell you now 100%, it's all and more of the hype.
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dave_shelby
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Impressed! Was it just tenderness or also taste?
Stickney94
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So how do you cook these brisket steaks? short rib steaks? ox tail steaks?
greybeard
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And the shank steaks and the cheek & neck steaks.
sim.-ang.king
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I sure do love grilling up some sweet bread steaks.
Peace
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No trimmings? If you got all the steaks you could and then the trimmings and what not as burger that's fine...but it can't really be all steaks.
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cowgirl8
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Ha, yeah there are those still but no mechanically tenderized cuts, no arm roast,no chuck roast, etc The burger is the best I've ever had. But you could cut the meat off the brisket and slap it on the skillet and eat it as a steak. You can trim the meat off the short ribs and sear it, eat it as a steak. Even the stew meat, tinder just seared med. Shortbreads, fad food gross….. fight it all you want, waygu is all it's made out to be
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cowgirl8
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Nope. My daughter took one of our heifers calf out of the waygu, grew like a heifer calf in the pasture, gained great on feed.. Anyhoot, he finished out better than the regular beef steers. Her waygus get massive. She bought our scrawny calf because he was going to get hit at the sale barn. It was an experiment of sorts. Just to see how they grow.
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cowgirl8
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The picture is of a different steer, 1/2 wagyu, not the heifers calf. I think half of him is in our freezer. Oh and we got bacon. Yes, wagyu bacon. Is it just like pork, no, but it's really good. It's more hearty, if that makes sense
chaded
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What can't these wagyu do?
Travlr
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Second hand information, so I wouldn't really know myself... but someone told me they are s*yt at breakfast in bed after a night of wild and crazy **x...
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cowgirl8
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Daughter sells it by cut so you don't have to buy a side or full. You look at the raw meat and guess most of it melts away. But it doesn't. The fat is different. It's smooth and pleasing, not grisly. Not sure how to explain, it's like the marbling is not fat but rather meat. For 45 years all we've ever eaten is grass fed. I've bought beef from the store maybe a dozen times in this 45 years and maybe have had steak at a restaurant 3 times. I've basically been that person looking from afar at lucky people eating really good meats, which you'd think being a rancher I'd have a freezer full of top grade meat. lol. Well I do now. I now know what I've missed. Feeding out a steer now isn't the cheap way to do this. Calves are bringing too much at the sale barn now.
Does she have a store front or selling it out of the Feed Store?
We didn't raise a calf to feed this year, too expensive with feed cost and what a good steer will bring.
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cowgirl8
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She is setting herself up a trailer to sell out of at farmers markets. When the "hoards" of solar eclipse people show up she's hoping to sell steaks and cook burgers. Right now she's selling off social media and word of mouth.
