Gas cost less/are food prices going to drop also?

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by spence

Whole Foods does dry age choice beef and it's worth the money.

Spence you don't have to buy the whole rack in the case do you? In Hingham at times there looks like thier maybe 15 prime ribs in the drying case. Some that I can see with my glasses and best eye squinting I can muster have a weight and price attached to the end of the cut. I always assumed you bought the whole piece and not just say three or four ribs. Do I understand that correctly or can you buy three or four ribs?

[cheferson]

Not sure how interested in it you are , but a great book about meat is The river cottage meat book. This book is really good, goes from cows, pigs, chickens, duck , geese , wild game and everything in between. He explains where all the cuts come from, how long to hang, dry aging vs wet aging and butchering etc. He talks a lot about what to look for and why in free range and oraganic raised animals and what these defintions really mean compared to meats from animals raised intensivly. Then he breaks down cooking them from roasting, braising, etc. . Really cant say enough good things about this book and it was only $20 something.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Spence you don't have to buy the whole rack in the case do you?

Usually meat is aged in large pieces and cut to order. I'd assume you can purchase just what you want, I've only bought from Whole Foods that way.

In the past we've got a few fillets or strips, never a whole cut.

-spence

[cheferson]

Originally Posted by spence

In the past we've got a few fillets or strips, never a whole cut.spence

Went there today for the 1st time. Great spread of stuff there if you have $$$ to toss around . The dry aged beef looked killer!! What did you pay per lb spence, $40???