Best Steaks of All-Time

[PureCountry]

We had the best steaks we've ever eaten yesterday. We were given a bit of a taste test. Some steaks were from a Galloway X Simmental heifer, and the others were a purebred Galloway. They were both incredible, but the straight Galloway ones were better. Just melted on your tongue.

I say 'ones' because I ate 2 steaks.

Now, growing up an Angus man, I've always been pretty proud of our home-raised beef. BUT, we've never raised anything like the Galloway steaks we had yesterday. It's the first Galloway beef we've tried, and certainly won't be the last.

[mb_rancher]

That should make Mr Kaiser smile!!

[Cedar]

Were they grassfed or grainfed?

[cowman]

Well if they are so tasty, someone should market them as a branded product and get them down to the meat case at Safeway!
I think Randy is sort of doing that in high end restaurant trade right now?
If you build a better mouse trap, the world doesn't necessarily beat a path to your door? You have to get out and market that mousetrap?

[countryguy]

I heard through the g****vine that there is a fellow who was involved in a very predominant sandwich chain looking to start a new one using Galloway beef.

[newguy]

Best steak I have tasted was a 12 m0nth old steer weighing 1100 and had been on grain for arond 200 days. Carcass was hung 21 days . Calf was a angus limo cross. I do not think breed was as important as age,feed and proper hanging.

[PureCountry]

Cedar - they were finished on silage and grain.

Countryguy - you are correct. It is 'that guy'. We were at his home for Sunday dinner. He'll be opening his first restaurant soon.

Cowman - it's being marketed. It's in the fledgling stages, and it's a different group than the one Kaiser and I have been dealing with.

As for management vs. breed, I USED to believe the same thing, until I tasted that Galloway steak on Sunday. I always thought it was the aging, the cutting, the feeding, which all do play a part. But this man has been in the food industry for 30 years, and he says he's never tasted anything like it. So did the other folks sitting around the table. And after tasting it myself, I'm a believer too.

[grassfarmer]

Interesting, I thought someone on here was saying recently that all the steak sandwich served in resterants was currently coming off cows, or did I read that elsewhere?
Also on the silage and grain ration - the gurus in Stockman grassfarmer all claim that silage fed beef doesn't taste good. My experience of eating silage or silage/grain fed beef in the UK would kind of support that. Purecountry, you said this steak melted in the mouth - what did it taste like? - was it tenderness or taste that you were enjoying?

[PureCountry]

Both really. It was incredibly tender, and the flavor was out of this world. I've heard the arguments for grass-fed being tastier and healthier. I believe grass-fed is healthier, but I'm just saying this was unlike any other beef I've tasted. It was really that good.

[cswilson]

It's a damned poor rancher who knows what his own beef tastes like-the only way I'd get to taste Galloway was if my neighbors started raising them lol.