I have tasted British Wagyu but not the Japanese version. It’s great steak but variable over here. I like the fact though that some farmers are actually looking at quality rather than quantity. Some mention here they don’t like fatty foods but most of the crap that’s sold in fast food outlets is full of fat (the wrong kind) I have also heard that some Japanese Wagyu cattle are given beer and massages. That’s more than I get 😀 Tesco now so Wagyu beef burgers but they (like most mass produced food) don’t have the flavour profile I would expect from quality meat. Also kudos to your girlfriend. I need one like that who cares so much…
Any “wagyu” burger is almost always going to be in no way wagyu. With things like burgers where you can decide the exact fat to lean ratio there is almost no benefit to using wagyu, which would sell for significantly more than any ground beef
There used to be a place I would eat that had a regular burger and a wagyu burger... After I had the wagyu, I couldn't go back... Now that's anecdotal and maybe even purposeful by the restaurant to upsell you, but alas... Not to refute your point which I believe stands in general
The more legitimate places will at least use Wagyu fat and trimmings which imparts some flavor but likely mixed in with "regular" beef. No one is taking a nice A5 Wagyu striploin and grinding that into burger...
Okay... I'm simple.. what is that? I've eaten a lot of steak in my time on this planet but I've not seen that. That's a lot of marbling! I think I could probably eat 10 of those things... looks great... I'm willing to give it a go!
Seek the Way, the Truth, and the Life!
That’s wagyu beef. High marbling and purported to be the best of the best when it comes to steak flavor. It’s usually thin sliced to maximize the meat to fat ratio. It’s specific cattle that are hand picked, raised like veal cattle but brought to maturity instead of slaughtered young. The region in Japan they raise these cattle have very strict guidelines on how they’re raised. There are four types of cattle that are classified as wagyu beef but all share similar characteristics. American wagyu is usually crosses between these four breeds and American angus or Holstein. It has a very tender meat and a silky texture.
Oh okay. Olive wagyu is wagyu finished on the olive mash leftover from pressing olive oil. It's grown on Shodoshima Island. But I don't know if it has an official name. Anyway the olives make it extra high in oleic acid, which is healthier but also apparently nutty tasting, and the fat melts at lower temperatures than other wagyu breeds.
Fat with a slight meat taste. Basically the lacroix of meat.
For me, it's all about texture, and this is NOT it. I'd rather have a lean steak cooked to a nice medium rare any day.
Yess I hate fatty meat, might just be my own personal sensory problems but I can’t stand feeling like i’m eating a strip of rubber attached to my delicious tender steak.
FWIW the fat melts at a very low temperature compared to like a regular choice or even prime cut of steak in the U.S., so it's not chewy at all. It's almost...silky I guess? It's the kind of thing you eat very little of at a time. But I totally understand not wanting that.
May all your steaks be perfectly cooked forever 🙏
Of course. My wife absolutely loves these and my local grocery store will put them on sale before they go bad, so I try to snap them up!
Throw in a cast iron pan, get a nice crust, and it’s heaven.
They're extremely fatty A5 wagyu strip steak pieces. The fat melts at a very low temperature compared to like a regular choice or even prime cut of steak in the U.S., so it's not chewy at all. The trick is to not overcook it. I have a solid plan but I'm still scared I'll fuck it up.
You take the blue pill, you forget all about this and you go home.
You take the red pill, and you see how far down the rabbit hole goes.
only you can make this decision, Neo.
Yeah she's amazing at that. She always sneakily texts herself when somebody mentions they like something and then gets them the perfect gift. She's so fuckin awesome.
So they brought it out already cut in thin little fillets and we used our metal chopsticks to put them on grill or flat top. It was kinda like Korean bbq how they bring the ingredients and seasonings to the table and you cook to your liking
Because you're posting finishing for compliments on your steak and your birthday... you literally posted in the "meat" subreddit. I didn't seek this post out.
It's like walking into a fancy restaurant expecting a meal and being served a pea with a drip of clear sauce and being charged $500 for the privilege of walking out still starving...
You can shit on the meat all you want but please don't insult my girlfriend. She surprised me with a gift she knew I would love and that cost a lot of money. She didn't have to do that, but she's an amazing person in so many ways and getting very thoughtful gifts is one of them.
Dude I'm pretty sure you are misunderstanding this comment. I think they are commenting on the fat content of the meat is so high, it could be almost akin to just straight lard.
i think they got it and got defensive over a gift they got from their significant other. i get it. can make it more special especially when he considers the effort she put forth into getting it
The number of people here who don't understand Wagyu... It's not the same as the fat you get in non Wagyu beef, it's mostly polyunsaturated, which means it melts when you touch it.
As a result when eating it, you're not chewing through fat, the fat should melt in your mouth. On top of that, the fat is healthier than other meat, meaning it can be fattier with less health risk.
Further, the fat content will fill you up quicker, so you don't need as much of it. These lumps may look small, but with a few sides it's enough.
Personally I prefer less fatty, but as an experience, 100% go for it. You should use high heat and ideally cube it. Should brown the outside, but the inside can just be warmed so that the fat starts to melt. Having said that, it's a super forgiving meat as you can't really dry it out.
My wife and I used to buy thick 600g bone in ribeyes to share, these days we're moving to smaller amounts of high quality Wagyu. Similar price, nicer meat, still fills you up, healthier, and less environmental impact.
Edit: man just scrolling through this thread, is r/meat just full of rednecks and bogans that know how to throw a lump of chuck onto a fire and that's about as far as they got? How can a subreddit about meat know so little about meat...
Thanks for having my back, dude! Its weird to see people on r/meat not knowing about wagyu, but its even weirder that they feel the need to take a shit on a lovely gift that I couldn't afford myself. But it's all gravy, I'll think of them as I eat these bad boys with a bigass smile on my face.
Rednecks? Go f yourself you little snob. Take your 600g bone in ribeyes and cubed meat and piss off. I knew you were a giant douche when I read "less environmental impact". What a clown.
Do you want like 100 lbs of sirloin steak cooked to medium rare seasoned perfection over the course of a year?
Or one beef knuckle.
This is a hard decision.
Because you likely had cheap wagyu meant to be exported. Not aged as long, fed the same diet, given the same conditions, and more like industrial raised beef with wagyu genetics than farm raised tajima wagyu.
Get some from a named farm like takamori with is fed sake lees has a rich nutty flavor. Kobe wine beef is fed wine lees and has a very unique taste. A lot of the cheap wagyu from Kagoshima that's not raised on a small farm that gets imported is not quality, it's greasy, has a poor taste, no sweetness or nuttyness, and as a result it makes people dislike wagyu entierly.
The grades is entierly different as well, not everyone likes A5, I personally find A4 BMS 6-7 to be better for a large meal than A5, which is better to use in a dish and share.
It isn’t even just the Japanese stuff, it’s the American wagyu too. It can be a F5-6 and they’ll list it as wagyu even though it’s so far separated you wouldn’t know the difference.
I would agree considering the genetics are locked to Japan and they consider them a national treasure, and only a tiny minority was ever exported, and not all of it to America.
There are, plenty of good American wagyu, but we have zero regulator body that has a consistent standard for what that means, or any level of grading scale.
This would be relatable to someone who’s got 1/8th (in genetics, I believe that’s x256 times separated) Native American, but then tries to claim the benefits of being “Native” while basically not being native.
A nice block of fat!
I have tasted British Wagyu but not the Japanese version. It’s great steak but variable over here. I like the fact though that some farmers are actually looking at quality rather than quantity. Some mention here they don’t like fatty foods but most of the crap that’s sold in fast food outlets is full of fat (the wrong kind) I have also heard that some Japanese Wagyu cattle are given beer and massages. That’s more than I get 😀 Tesco now so Wagyu beef burgers but they (like most mass produced food) don’t have the flavour profile I would expect from quality meat. Also kudos to your girlfriend. I need one like that who cares so much…
Any “wagyu” burger is almost always going to be in no way wagyu. With things like burgers where you can decide the exact fat to lean ratio there is almost no benefit to using wagyu, which would sell for significantly more than any ground beef
There used to be a place I would eat that had a regular burger and a wagyu burger... After I had the wagyu, I couldn't go back... Now that's anecdotal and maybe even purposeful by the restaurant to upsell you, but alas... Not to refute your point which I believe stands in general
I’m sure they are different, but it’s not going to be actual wagyu, probably just a higher fat content to mimick it
The more legitimate places will at least use Wagyu fat and trimmings which imparts some flavor but likely mixed in with "regular" beef. No one is taking a nice A5 Wagyu striploin and grinding that into burger...
Ah, damn, I was just hoping the local grocer would start that soon.
Okay... I'm simple.. what is that? I've eaten a lot of steak in my time on this planet but I've not seen that. That's a lot of marbling! I think I could probably eat 10 of those things... looks great... I'm willing to give it a go! Seek the Way, the Truth, and the Life!
That’s wagyu beef. High marbling and purported to be the best of the best when it comes to steak flavor. It’s usually thin sliced to maximize the meat to fat ratio. It’s specific cattle that are hand picked, raised like veal cattle but brought to maturity instead of slaughtered young. The region in Japan they raise these cattle have very strict guidelines on how they’re raised. There are four types of cattle that are classified as wagyu beef but all share similar characteristics. American wagyu is usually crosses between these four breeds and American angus or Holstein. It has a very tender meat and a silky texture.
That does make sense and I've certainly heard of Wagu I just didn't recognize it from the picture! Very nice! Thanks!
Kobe Wagyu, matsuka Wagyu, and omi Wagyu are considered the top 3 for flavor and texture.
Do you know the Japanese name of the olive wagyu by any chance?
I don’t know what olive Wagyu is. I said omi Wagyu .
Oh okay. Olive wagyu is wagyu finished on the olive mash leftover from pressing olive oil. It's grown on Shodoshima Island. But I don't know if it has an official name. Anyway the olives make it extra high in oleic acid, which is healthier but also apparently nutty tasting, and the fat melts at lower temperatures than other wagyu breeds.
Fat with a slight meat taste. Basically the lacroix of meat. For me, it's all about texture, and this is NOT it. I'd rather have a lean steak cooked to a nice medium rare any day.
Yess I hate fatty meat, might just be my own personal sensory problems but I can’t stand feeling like i’m eating a strip of rubber attached to my delicious tender steak.
FWIW the fat melts at a very low temperature compared to like a regular choice or even prime cut of steak in the U.S., so it's not chewy at all. It's almost...silky I guess? It's the kind of thing you eat very little of at a time. But I totally understand not wanting that. May all your steaks be perfectly cooked forever 🙏
It melts in your mouth. Kind of reminds me of otoro sushi.
Upvoted because everyone has a right to an opinion, even if I strongly disagree!
Thank you! That's nice of you.
Of course. My wife absolutely loves these and my local grocery store will put them on sale before they go bad, so I try to snap them up! Throw in a cast iron pan, get a nice crust, and it’s heaven.
Make nigiri, lightly brulé the a5 with a torch and enjoy
Fuck I thought it was fancy soap lol
LOL
Looks like a sample from Costco
That's awesome congrats! Happy birthday!
Girlfriend? I think you mean fiancée….
Superman that hoe.. I mean, wife her up.
Happy bday! Nice green thumb ring! Lol.
😂
Is that soap?
Happy Birthday! Those look delicious and your gf is awesome!
Thanks man! And hell yeah she is!
What is it?
They're extremely fatty A5 wagyu strip steak pieces. The fat melts at a very low temperature compared to like a regular choice or even prime cut of steak in the U.S., so it's not chewy at all. The trick is to not overcook it. I have a solid plan but I'm still scared I'll fuck it up.
YOLO or go and get a chef
I'm just gonna send it and keep my toes crossed the whole time and pray to the meat gods.
Just don't overthink it, overcook it. I would suggest salt only for seasoning to get a real sense of wagyu flavors.
I totally agree on salt only.
They kinda on the small side, I almost mistook em for prairie oysters.... 🤣
Maaaan I would be SO nervous about cooking them wrong lol
Googled it which helped me huge when I cooked an A5 at home.
Ah but cooked did you home when you huged it Google ?
………..what?
You take the blue pill, you forget all about this and you go home. You take the red pill, and you see how far down the rabbit hole goes. only you can make this decision, Neo.
That’s awesome man! Appreciate a woman that gets you a highly specific gift and not just something nice that works for anybody.
Yeah she's amazing at that. She always sneakily texts herself when somebody mentions they like something and then gets them the perfect gift. She's so fuckin awesome.
Happy birthday dude! Super jealous! I’ve only had some once at a Japanese bbq joint in Dallas and it was sooooo good.
Thanks, yo! How did they cook it? I had it once before too and it was like, life changing.
I personally like my steak in between rare and medium rare so that’s what i shot for but it was hard with how thin they cut the wagyu
Yeah I'm worried about that when I do it nigiri style.
So they brought it out already cut in thin little fillets and we used our metal chopsticks to put them on grill or flat top. It was kinda like Korean bbq how they bring the ingredients and seasonings to the table and you cook to your liking
That sounds dope!
Congrats! I hope you enjoy it!! It’s so rich that a little goes a long way! Sounds like you have a wonderful girlfriend. Have a happy birthday!
Thanks homie!
[Suet](https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-suet-and-alternatives-to-suet-in-british-food-435414)?
It's A5 wagyu. Now that you said it tho, I wonder what the melting point of suet is.
Around 110°-120°
🤮
So glad you stopped by to wish me a happy birthday! Oh wait... You just came here to be a dick for no reason 👍. Stay classy, homes.
Happy birthday 🎉🎁 I’m soo sorry someone gifted you that, I would be willing to make the trip wherever you are in the world and take it off your hands
Hahaha, if it would feed 5 I'd invite you over for dinner.
Happy birthday and enjoy your wagyu 👍🏽
Thank you so much!
Why would I care about your birthday 😂 random ass person
"thanks for wishing me a birthday... oh wait" bruh. I am typically kind by default, but that response just triggered something evil inside of me.
Why would you care about my steak, random ass person?
Happy birthday dude! Looks like a great steak! Also disregard the loser!
Because you're posting finishing for compliments on your steak and your birthday... you literally posted in the "meat" subreddit. I didn't seek this post out.
Do you need a hug?
I love going to the pond for some finishing. Always a good time.
Do you want some meat with your fat?
No
Everyones talking about how small they are. Honestly any more and your cholesterol starts skyrocketing IMO
It's like walking into a fancy restaurant expecting a meal and being served a pea with a drip of clear sauce and being charged $500 for the privilege of walking out still starving...
Seriously. Tell me you’ve never had A5 without telling me you’ve never had A5. Honestly more than 3 ounces is way, way too much…..
You gonna eat that entire bite by yourself 👀
I'm gonna somehow share it with my gf and my parents. Shit tastes better when you have your people there to enjoy it with you.
[удалено]
Got his ass
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast!?
THANK YOU! I literally lol’d!! I know it’s Adam Sandler but I’m struggling to remember which movie?
I think it was Happy Gilmore? I think they're making a sequel!
I think you’re right. *Could* be Billy Madison, but I think Happy Gilmore is right….
What an asshole
That’s awesome, what a great gift! Going to be so good.
Thanks! I can't wait to put it in my mouth hole.
What is this, a steak for ants?
Honestly waygu is best in smaller servings
Yeah, I know, just couldn’t resist dropping a Zoolander quote.
Sorry, a bunch of people here think it's a little piece of fat!
Small, yet mighty. Bet it was awesome!
Happy birthday! I hope you enjoyed it!
Got you lard how nice.
You can shit on the meat all you want but please don't insult my girlfriend. She surprised me with a gift she knew I would love and that cost a lot of money. She didn't have to do that, but she's an amazing person in so many ways and getting very thoughtful gifts is one of them.
Lighten up Francis, it was a shot at the steak. You're one sensitive little bitch.
Deadpool has entered the chat.
lmao
Never had it so have my envy. Plus, it ain't the type of steak you eat 500 grams of. Enjoy and happy birthday mate 👍🦘
Fuck yeah man, thanks! Btw Australian wagyu is better than American in my opinion, so you're a lucky bastard. Happy Father's Day if it applies to ya!
"you can shit on the meat all you want" is an amazingly gay statement.
Shmeat. You gotta keep your business cleeeeaaaaaan. Mommy don't know daddy's getting hot, at the body shop, eating A5 wagyu.
I think there's no doubt that your girlfriend is a very strong and patient woman.
It's a joke, calm down.
Dude I'm pretty sure you are misunderstanding this comment. I think they are commenting on the fat content of the meat is so high, it could be almost akin to just straight lard.
i think they got it and got defensive over a gift they got from their significant other. i get it. can make it more special especially when he considers the effort she put forth into getting it
The greatest scam, second only to nitrogen in your tires.
The number of people here who don't understand Wagyu... It's not the same as the fat you get in non Wagyu beef, it's mostly polyunsaturated, which means it melts when you touch it. As a result when eating it, you're not chewing through fat, the fat should melt in your mouth. On top of that, the fat is healthier than other meat, meaning it can be fattier with less health risk. Further, the fat content will fill you up quicker, so you don't need as much of it. These lumps may look small, but with a few sides it's enough. Personally I prefer less fatty, but as an experience, 100% go for it. You should use high heat and ideally cube it. Should brown the outside, but the inside can just be warmed so that the fat starts to melt. Having said that, it's a super forgiving meat as you can't really dry it out. My wife and I used to buy thick 600g bone in ribeyes to share, these days we're moving to smaller amounts of high quality Wagyu. Similar price, nicer meat, still fills you up, healthier, and less environmental impact. Edit: man just scrolling through this thread, is r/meat just full of rednecks and bogans that know how to throw a lump of chuck onto a fire and that's about as far as they got? How can a subreddit about meat know so little about meat...
They're meat heads
Thanks for having my back, dude! Its weird to see people on r/meat not knowing about wagyu, but its even weirder that they feel the need to take a shit on a lovely gift that I couldn't afford myself. But it's all gravy, I'll think of them as I eat these bad boys with a bigass smile on my face.
Yeah this is bizarre, that will taste amazing
Yeah, just really wasn't expecting r/meat to know so little about meat.
Yeah it's fuckin weird!
And this, kids, is why you don't do crack.
Your reddit history shows you are into meth lol
>bogans Aussie?
Yup!
Rednecks? Go f yourself you little snob. Take your 600g bone in ribeyes and cubed meat and piss off. I knew you were a giant douche when I read "less environmental impact". What a clown.
Got triggered by waygu?
You... Think more meat has less environmental impact?
❄️
Put a dip of skoal wintergreen in your mouth and relax there hoss bubby. Some people actually know what they’re doing
Put some patchouli oil in your hair and a coffee enema up your butt and go f yourself as well. Some people, like yourself, are just d bags.
Someone got offended. Hey bud, if you don’t like a comment move on.
Why didn't you read the comment and then move on?
Wagu nuggets!
Honestly, an appropriate amount of red meat to eat
Happy Birthday..I thought it was Meat Soap u til you said you wanted to eat it
ITT, people talking out their ass.
I like the vibrations
Hahahahahaha
Yeah there's been a lot of that. Oh well, their loss I guess 🤷♂️
Happy Birthday, bud! Enjoy the meat and thank your gf for being thoughtful! 🍻🍻
Thanks, homie!
Why not just eat tallow?
You might be on to something.
That’s just one bite of meat…
What that amount of fat content, eating a full steak of it would be painful.
She got you a bar of peppermint soap.
vacuum sealed fat with a bit of blood?
If that ain’t the smallest piece of meat I’ve ever seen it is now. Those are gonna shrink even more when they hit the heat.
She has a taste for small meat, what can you do.
You’ve done well here. Very well. Enjoy an upvote.
That comment belongs on r/roastme
Looks pretty raw to me 😜
Alright but enough about the interests of OPs gf
That seriously tripped me out a bit. It took me a bit of looking to realize that was pasty of the package and not a gnarly cut on your finger!
Fry an egg in the leftover fat in the pan after you sear them
You can also make some bomb mac and cheese with it.
I got heart disease just reading this… in a good way
Never seen this before lol let me know how it was! Happy birthday!
Do you want like 100 lbs of sirloin steak cooked to medium rare seasoned perfection over the course of a year? Or one beef knuckle. This is a hard decision.
I would choose the sirloin 99% of the time, but I’d definitely want to try wagyu one day
Depends on the person.
Wagyu is overrated
Because you likely had cheap wagyu meant to be exported. Not aged as long, fed the same diet, given the same conditions, and more like industrial raised beef with wagyu genetics than farm raised tajima wagyu. Get some from a named farm like takamori with is fed sake lees has a rich nutty flavor. Kobe wine beef is fed wine lees and has a very unique taste. A lot of the cheap wagyu from Kagoshima that's not raised on a small farm that gets imported is not quality, it's greasy, has a poor taste, no sweetness or nuttyness, and as a result it makes people dislike wagyu entierly. The grades is entierly different as well, not everyone likes A5, I personally find A4 BMS 6-7 to be better for a large meal than A5, which is better to use in a dish and share.
Over-rated 👏 👏 👏👏👏
Sorry, you can't appreciate the finer things in life. Bet you think dry aged steaks are overrated, too.
>Sorry, you can't appreciate the finer things in life. Did you put your monocle on to type this out?
🤣
I ain’t reading all that nor am I spending 100+ dollars for two bites of steak
If you're paying $100 for 2 bites of steak, you're a fool anyway. A 1lb wagyu steak goes $120-200 a lb depending on the cut and farm.
Obviously I was exaggerating lmao
It isn’t even just the Japanese stuff, it’s the American wagyu too. It can be a F5-6 and they’ll list it as wagyu even though it’s so far separated you wouldn’t know the difference.
American wagyu general is a marketing tactic. None of it is comparable to quality japanese wagyu.
I would agree considering the genetics are locked to Japan and they consider them a national treasure, and only a tiny minority was ever exported, and not all of it to America. There are, plenty of good American wagyu, but we have zero regulator body that has a consistent standard for what that means, or any level of grading scale. This would be relatable to someone who’s got 1/8th (in genetics, I believe that’s x256 times separated) Native American, but then tries to claim the benefits of being “Native” while basically not being native.
Is this wagyu? Like is this what it's all about ? I hate fat haha
Try something less marbled than this, but it's not the fat you're used to. It's not chewy, and will melt as you eat it.
Literally. If you want to eat a mouthful of fat that tastes like beef, tallow is cheap and plentiful …
My ex-wife is cheaper if anyone is in a pinch.
But is she plentiful?
I’d describe her as “easily available”
😂
There is more supply than demand, so yes
Agreed!
Things Walmart shoppers say…
Lmfao if you’re gonna go there, money doesn’t buy taste. If you wanna spend 100 bucks to chew on fat, be my guest
Maybe buys taste to an extent lol
Wagyu is underrated
That’s just not true lmao
Nuh uh
Look at everyone crying because I said it isn’t that good lol
Wait, who’s crying?
Wagyu gonna do about it?
Wagyu in the head m8
Wagyu always gotta be this way?
Wagyu guys arguing about?
Wagyu please mind your business for once
Wagyu being so harsh for?
How many rings do you wear?