Sous vide short ribs?

[Pete in PG]

I'm a big fan of Peter Reinhart and his webisodes. Anyway, he produced one where he sous vides (verb?) what he and another cook call "short ribs". Please take a look a this video and tell me if you think this is short rib or not. It looks more like a cut of tri tip and I sent an email to him, but as yet no reply.

Any thoughts folks?

http://www.fornobravo.com/pizzaques...pectacular-sous-vide-short-ribs-at-basta.html

 

[George L]

They don't look like short ribs to me. I've had ones from Costco where they come in thick strips, more like steaks.
I don't think that's a tri tip either. Sure looks like one though....but I highly doubt it is one.

 

[Chris Allingham]

All I can think is that it's cut off of a 3 or 4 bone section of short ribs to create sort of a steak.

 

[Bob Bass]

"It's been in there a couple of days"
Truly Slow and Low.

Hope they don't get a rush order for more...

 

[j biesinger]

At Restaurant Depot, I buy packs of short ribs that come in 5 bone plates, roughly 10-12" square. The meat is thickest at one corner, and thinnest at the opposite corner. If you removed all the meat from the ribs, and cut it in half along the diagonal, you would have a triangle of meat, all with a steak thickness. Is this what they use, I can't be certain, but I do know that sous vide short ribs are some of the best eating beef you'll ever have.