Australian meat standards?

slovelad

my Winn Dixie has had a bunch of ribeye, which say "harvested in Australia 

how does their quality compre to US? Better or worse standards?

Thatgrimguy

Australian beef is great if it's great beef. Australia arguably has better overall beef than America. At a minimum it's comparable.  Just like American beef though, some ranchers don't take the care that others do.

4Runner

Long way to ship.  

nolaegghead

http://austbeef.com.au/2014/08/06/1283/

SGH

nolaegghead said:

http://austbeef.com.au/2014/08/06/1283/

If y'all read this article close, it plainly tells you how meat retailers (not graders) play the system. This is why sometimes select is better than choice and vice versa. You are not always getting what you are paying for contrary to popular belief. The meat industry has gotten almost as crooked as the Democratic Party.  

fishlessman

i like the taste of grass fed beef and with the australian stuff i stick to the ribeye cut and the ground stuff. uraguay puts out some good stuff as well. it has a stronger taste than even usa grassfed so you will either like it or hate it. also, ribeye is a pretty forgiving cut and i am not as critical of grade with that cut

Raymont

Traveled to Melbourne last year and had several Wagyu ribeye's at high end restaurants. Even one that was aged. I was not impressed at all. Tough and grainy. Don't know what the grade was. 

Darby_Crenshaw

fish, the taste of grass fed stuff is dependent on the pasture, and what other plants (besides grass) there are growing in it.  they say grass fed beef from two pastures a couple miles apart can taste very different (never done a comparison myself).

but cornfed stuff (most commercial beef) is fed the same strain of corn across the country, and the taste is very uniform.

i like the grass fed, the expense keeps us from eating too much though.

WileE.Coyote

Ill have to keep an eye out for that next time im in Winn Dixie

Little Steven

Think you will find they are similar Canadian. Controlled yellow fat and maturity. I watch quite a few OZ and Kiwi cooking and butchery shows on Gusto TV. They are very proud of the cattle industry.

Little Steven

Wow are they ever similar. Bastids stole our chart and put Australia on it. I know that the domestic stuff is all grass fed and they have to buy imported stuff to get grain fed.

fishlessman

Darby_Crenshaw said:

fish, the taste of grass fed stuff is dependent on the pasture, and what other plants (besides grass) there are growing in it.  they say grass fed beef from two pastures a couple miles apart can taste very different (never done a comparison myself).

but cornfed stuff (most commercial beef) is fed the same strain of corn across the country, and the taste is very uniform.

i like the grass fed, the expense keeps us from eating too much though.

unless you go to the farm, seems most of our grass fed is really just grass finished which really isnt the same product taste wise compared to the australian and the stuff from uraguay. lately the grass fed imported stuff at market basket is getting less expensive, cheaper than the local butchers at least but your stuck with thin cuts, probably why i like the ribeye and the burger as its just easier to cook thin cuts

Little Steven

Darby_Crenshaw said:

fish, the taste of grass fed stuff is dependent on the pasture, and what other plants (besides grass) there are growing in it.  they say grass fed beef from two pastures a couple miles apart can taste very different (never done a comparison myself).

but cornfed stuff (most commercial beef) is fed the same strain of corn across the country, and the taste is very uniform.

i like the grass fed, the expense keeps us from eating too much though.

One of the things I remember from the TV shows was that the warm, moist air from the oceans to the pastures near the coast had a lot to do with the quality of the meat. They were converting some of the sheep pastures to cattle as well. I guess all that sheep sh!t had something to do with it too but they didn't mention that.

nolaegghead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1uhjAtLow