07/23/10, 01:16 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 17,225
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Originally Posted by Ebenezer
Not really curious about your beef preference but I am wondering about all of the fat that you want. I think the last I heard the average overfinished steer in a feedlot has over 200 pounds of waste fat cut off before they were cut and boxed. You used a term "tick fat" so I guess that is even more overfinished??? Folks come here for advice. You give some and I give some. I have no interest in the overfinishing because of a conservation and economic ethic. The average steer eats 6 to 7 ponds of a good feed ration to gain a pound of animal weight. Let's say a "tick fat" steer has 250 pounds of excess fat to be trimmed. 250 X 6.5 = 1625 pounds of feed that was fed to produce trimmed fat. Seems like a real waste to me. My opinion.
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As I said, I use the fat. When I fry a steak I trim the fat, render it in the pan to fry the steak in, and eat the crispy fat while the steak frys. I think 250 pounds of "excess fat" is unrealistic. While they do add fat while on grain, they also add quite a bit of muscle. I want the meat on my steaks to round out, not round in.
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