What does everyone think of Sam's club meats?

[korpellakitchen]

I live in the Walmart/Sams mecca (Northwest Arkansas).  I bought a USDA Prime brisket the other day for super cheap, it was awesome.  I buy most all my meat there.  

 

[rtbbq2]

The Sams Club in Minnesota near my house is a great place. The Boston Pork butts are excellent. I also like their Spare and loin pork ribs. Briskets, sirlion and rib roasts all are top quality. I always buy my meat at Sams and have for years now. Very pleased at the Minnesota locations. All stores are surely different from state to state...

 

[smokenstein]

I have bought meat from two Sam's locations and from the first one my pork butts were bad. From the second one I bought meat for a KCBS event. And two packs out of four were bad. Luckily my bro had more meat. Never again will I BUY MEAT AT SAM'S!!! That was in Albuquerque.

 

[mdboatbum]

I have bought meat from two Sam's locations and from the first one my pork butts were bad. From the second one I bought meat for a KCBS event. And two packs out of four were bad. Luckily my bro had more meat. Never again will I BUY MEAT AT SAM'S!!! That was in Albuquerque.

How do you mean "bad"? If you're referring to the sulphur "rotten egg" smell, that's actually a fairly common side effect of cryovac packed meats. A good rinse and letting it air on the counter for 5 minutes will usually take care of it.

 

[floridasteve]

I have bought several Boston butts and spareribs from Sam's, and a brisket from Walmart. Been happy with all of them.

 

[vartz04]

I've had really good luck with their competition (Costco) the ribs and shoulders I've gotten there have all been tasty. Haven't gotten a brisket yet but I intend to once my smoker is done being built and I do a couple practice runs with some chickens or a shoulder

 

[paul6]

We buy a lot of meat from Sam's , here in AZ  it is hard to get good beef ! I am from Iowa where it was hard to buy bad beef and have found Sam's and Costco sell the best Beef . Only buy whole bags of meat from Walmart our local store the Butchers couldn't cut a steak to save their lives . I do buy whole Briskets there.

 

[smokesontuesday]

Buy quite a bit of meat at the Sam's in Tulsa, OK, especially pork butts, briskets, and ribs.

I've never had an issue with anything I've gotten there. I prefer buying from my local Reasor's but they just can't match price with Sam's most of the time.

 

[krooz]

Was at Sam's today - don't go too often unless I'm in the area. Was hoping too buy baby backs but the 3 pack ribs were 50 cents more a lb than the ones I can buy at Walmart so I passed.....