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Hazuki Nakamura

said:

What makes beef a higher grade is a higher fat content.

The butcher at Costco explained to me that their "Choice" is "almost prime"
in that Costco guarantees "choice or better". Dunno if that's accurate but
he told me that when he went back to get a slab for me of the New York Beef
Loin Top, Choice.

He explained there are two types of fat, which is the stuff you cut off (of
which I cut off about 5 pounds on that 15 pound slab), and what he called
"marbling" which is the internal fat stripes.

He said the marbling on this cut he gave me is prime but Costco doesn't
label it prime.

You have
Choice, if it was Prime, there would be even more fat but it would
taste better (more tender etc)

But is that "more fat" the marbling? Or is it all that fat I cut off the
sides?

Maybe you should be buying London Broil or some other cut with a lower
fat content if that bothers you.

I am confused by your statement because the fat I cut off was pure fat (as
you can see from the photo). Nobody eats pure fat, do they?

The "marbling" is fat that was kept but that was "inside" the steak whereas
the fat I cut off was outside.

BTW $7 a pound is not bad for steak.

I was wondering, because Costco sells cut steaks, about 5 or so at a time,
at about 7 dollars a pound, whereas mine was 5 dollars a pound for a
15-pound chunk. I don't know if they cut off all the fat that I cut off
which made each 10 ounce steak about 5 dollars (or about 7 dollars a pound
for the marbled stuff with no fat on the edges).