what are people paying for prime rib in 12-21 ?
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Grant Cunningham
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Well, it's been a lot of years...I have cookbooks going back to 1905 and 1911 that refer to the cut as Prime Rib.
DanHoo
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Grant Cunningham
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Hey, it was before mine too!
For some reason, prime rib is a Northwest staple — right up there with salmon. Texas has brisket, California has tri-tip, but up here in Oregon all I remember people talking about when I was a kid was prime rib. Legend has it that the first Traeger was built (an hour's drive from my house) because they wanted to cook prime rib as good as a local restaurant.
I still have one in the freezer from the last steer we butchered. Looking forward to cooking it.
DanHoo
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when I was a teen I worked in a small coffee shop inside a casino in Nevada and they served prime rib specials for $3.99 on friday nights. That was the first time I'd heard of prime rib. When we lived back east they were called standing rib roasts.
Timothy F. Lewis
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CAB standing rib roasts running $10.99 around here today! I might get one for”stock” and stash it in the freezer for another feast. I am doing a three rib and a 2 rib for Christmas, there is a contingent around here that prefers their beef more “well killed” than a few others.
Brad Olson
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The 2 of you can't handle 30-some pounds of beef? You'd never make it here in the Midwest.
Around here "prime rib" and "rib roast" seem to be fairly interchangeable in the stores, but on restaurant menus it's almost always "prime rib". Retail was around $6.99-8.99/lb a couple of weeks ago (stores looking to move what they'd brought in for non-turkey Thanksgivings?) but now prices seem to be above the $10 mark again; I suppose if I'm going to cook one for Christmas I'd better get around to ordering it.
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Ed P
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Brad, you got that right! I read about you guys stocking up the freezer during hunting season and realize just how much of a wimp I am these days!The 2 of you can't handle 30-some pounds of beef? You'd never make it here in the Midwest.
We bought a 1.8lb. Porterhouse for our 53rd anniversary a few days ago and between the two of us we had two nights of dinners from it. Of course we had mushrooms and lobster and baked potatoes and baby limas on the side so it was a very (ful)filling anniversary dinner, but I remember the day when I would have tried to eat that whole steak by myself!
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Brad Olson
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Bruno
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Cook that thing and take lots of pics!
Bill F in Ontario
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russ olin
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A professional meat cutter here in our home town who retired a few months ago made it clear to me a few years ago that there is no such cut as Prime Rib. That is a term invented by restaurants. He said a rib roast is what it is a rib roast. That being said the meat market that he retired from a while back, yesterday the war dept was in there & they were selling Prime grade rib roast for a measly $30 a pound. NO, she didn't buy any. They sell Meyers Ranch meats there. High grade beef. Glad that we have one left from last year in the freezer for this year. Maybe after the holidays CreekStone Farms will have a holiday sale & we can score a whole roast like we did last year.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Went to Meijer today with the intent of buying a boneless CAB New York strip roast advertised at $5.99/lb. Then I saw bone-in CAB "prime rib" for $6.99/lb. Grabbed the biggest one they had -- 8.5 lbs. I'm hoping that will be enough for 14 people.
As to the naming, yesterday I came across some beef cut charts. Both were clearly prepared by the same organization, one for the food service industry and one for butchers. The butcher's chart included a cut called "prime rib". The food service one said, "bone-in beef rib roast".
Most of the names applied to cuts of meat were invented by somebody. I'm not sure it matters if it was a meat cutter or a restauranteur. I suppose if I go into a butcher shop and ask for a ten-pound prime rib they're going to tell me there is no such cut and send me on my way. When somebody finds out who is responsible for the term "Boston butt" to describe a pork shoulder, I'm first in line to smack the originator.
As to the naming, yesterday I came across some beef cut charts. Both were clearly prepared by the same organization, one for the food service industry and one for butchers. The butcher's chart included a cut called "prime rib". The food service one said, "bone-in beef rib roast".
Most of the names applied to cuts of meat were invented by somebody. I'm not sure it matters if it was a meat cutter or a restauranteur. I suppose if I go into a butcher shop and ask for a ten-pound prime rib they're going to tell me there is no such cut and send me on my way. When somebody finds out who is responsible for the term "Boston butt" to describe a pork shoulder, I'm first in line to smack the originator.
Safeway in SF Bay Area is selling USDA Choice bone-in ribeye roast for member price of $6.99/lb w/coupon, 1 coupon per household per day, valid 12/22 to 12/25.
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