Mostly it's my friend Paul who is pretty awesome. He's a retired butcher and in later life worked training meat cutters and butchers for a major food services company.
This weekend is my brother's birthday and also our father's 75th birthday. The idea was tomahawk steaks (we did that on my birthday early last month). But as the invite list grew, the cost of that became prohibitive. I realized I could get bone-in Prime Rib, then cut it into steaks and French them - voila tomahawk steaks albeit without the long rib, just a shorter bit. I'm relatively good with a knife and was going to attempt it on my own, but then a friend volunteered to come over and do it all. What a lot of fun to cut and trim your own steak. He also told/taught me about how to buy various cuts of roasts, meat, etc. and trim them into various steaks, trimmings for ground meat, etc.
Don't let the rich people know about this, or on-demand private butchers are going to be the next big thing in California and us simple folk will never get a chance again... ;
This weekend is my brother's birthday and also our father's 75th birthday. The idea was tomahawk steaks (we did that on my birthday early last month). But as the invite list grew, the cost of that became prohibitive. I realized I could get bone-in Prime Rib, then cut it into steaks and French them - voila tomahawk steaks albeit without the long rib, just a shorter bit. I'm relatively good with a knife and was going to attempt it on my own, but then a friend volunteered to come over and do it all. What a lot of fun to cut and trim your own steak. He also told/taught me about how to buy various cuts of roasts, meat, etc. and trim them into various steaks, trimmings for ground meat, etc.
Don't let the rich people know about this, or on-demand private butchers are going to be the next big thing in California and us simple folk will never get a chance again... ;