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Originally Posted by guzzy
You will be hard pressed to find Canadian beef at safeway let alone dry aged beef.
Try local butchers - Calgary meats on Edmonton trail and 13 ave.
There is a place downtown - second to none meats i believe it is called. I know they carry it.
If people want good steak, my advice is avoid the supermarkets period. Find a local farmer and ask him what he would charge you for a cow, or a half cow. Take it to the butcher and get it cut the way you want. That way you avoid the steroids and other crap they inject into cattle before slaughter. You know the big grease bins behind restaurants? Most people have no idea what that is for. Alberta Processing collects the grease from these bins and feeds it to cattle before slaughtering.
Iget my beef from my wife's family in the Edson area. I almost always have farm beef. The biggest difference is the ground beef. Ground beef at the supermarket is usually bull and 6 year old dairy cow. Trust me - once you have farm beef you won't go back
I was out of beef a couple of months ago and a family member was a little delayed slaughtering the cow we were splitting. I went to Costco and bought the whole tenderloin and cut it into steaks. They were actually good. I was very impressed until I went and picked up my side of beef from the butcher by Edson and got it home. Even the sirloin from the farm beef tastes better than the tenderloin from Costco. I was quite shocked.
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I largely agree with you except that you should make sure the farmer knows how to age the meat properly. Getting half a cow butchered while fresh, will still be tough if not properly aged