Possum In The Kitchen!

[internationalguy]

If it costs 40 pesos it's OBVIOUSLY not lomo. Maybe you could explain the cuts or we could find a website that explains them. I remember that I once bought something that said lomo, it was paper thin milanesa style meat which I absolutely hated. I later discovered that real lomo is sold as an entire piece of tenderloin (about 3 lbs), and it sells for like 120ish a kilo.

 

[French jurist]

Is it even beef?

 

[PhilipDT]

If it costs 40 pesos it's OBVIOUSLY not lomo. Maybe you could explain the cuts or we could find a website that explains them. I remember that I once bought something that said lomo, it was paper thin milanesa style meat which I absolutely hated. I later discovered that real lomo is sold as an entire piece of tenderloin (about 3 lbs), and it sells for like 120ish a kilo.

I figured he was just talking about what he paid

Since bola de lomo I'm pretty sure is more than $40 a kilo at jumbo at the moment and 250g of lomo at @ 160 or 750g of bola de lomo at 60 would be $40

 

[Redpossum]

Guys, this was Jumbo. They had ~24 cuts of beef in the case, and all of three different names between the lot of them. Everything under the sun was marked bife de lomo. Somebody just got lazy with the label machine.

I didn't try to figure out what it was because, as I noted, GMXam said all the cuts are different. So I gave up on logical approaches and just did my chef's intuition thing, and it worked fine. A cut with more marbling would have been a bit more moist, it's true, but also more greasy.

In the immortal words of Julia Child, "I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food".

 

[PhilipDT]

I later discovered that real lomo is sold as an entire piece of tenderloin (about 3 lbs), and it sells for like 120ish a kilo.

That for me is the biggest difference between Argie beef and US beef, not the grass fed or feed lot crap since you can get both in both places, but the size of these steers when they slaughter them.

In the US almost all tenderloins are in the 4.5-6.5lbs range. Here most are in the 2.4 - 3.7lbs range

 

[PhilipDT]

GMXam said all the cuts are different.

The cuts are actually more the same than they are different. Especially premium cuts from the rib section .

 

[citygirl]

One should never buy in Jumbo/Coto/et al if possible. Find yourself a good butcher. Less expensive and better quality. I'm paying approximately 80 pesos a kilo for bife chorizo and 85 for lomo and it's amazing quality. * That's mayorista price but I think the consumer is like 5 pesos more a kilo. This place buys directly from the market and the cows are slaughtered and brought whole to the store and they cut them up there. All the restaurants, etc buy from them.

Philip DT - I find the cuts bigger here if I buy a bife chorizo entero for example, it's usually around 4 kilos.

 

[GMXam]

Nice looking dish, Red.

I second purchasing meats from the carniceria.

If your point of reference is USA supermarkets where cuts have a pretty standard labeled description identifying exactly what you are buying, you will not find this here. Labels are highly inconsistent for meats in various supermarkets, aside from identifying what animal it came from. From our coffee chat discussions, I gathered Red's experience to be that of supermarket meat departments.

On the other hand, when comparing typical USA butcher shop to carniceria, I agree the cuts are more similar to each other. The main difference from my perspective is the varying layers of fat left on it which give it a very different look in the case window (I assume this is due to the common cooking style, a la parrilla, where the fat may be oh so necessary). My reference is from Mexican butcher shops in Texas where the cuts are very different; more cow parts are on display for your culinary enjoyment.

 

[GMXam]

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[PhilipDT]

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Philip DT - I find the cuts bigger here if I buy a bife chorizo entero for example, it's usually around 4 kilos.

Without the bones and without the cap? I'm never getting anything over 3kg around here. Are you buying novillito or ternera?

Even so, in the US you're pretty much always getting at least 11lbs usually closer to 13.