Biggest eye of round you have seen?

[motolife313-2]

Found a 12.2 pounder today and had to have it. Just trimmed it and it came out to right at 10 pounds after trim and that equals 5.4 bucks a pound. I can get them with fat taken off already for 5.26 a pound but they are usually 6 pounds or so. Paid 4.42 a pound for this today I think. Here’s the 12.2 pounder vs a 6 pounder denuded. I’ll get some diameter measurements tonight after slicing

And some pics of eye of round jerky from yesterday. Had 4 eye of rounds that were denueted

 

[motolife313-2]

About 10 pounds of eye of round yesterday. Went to hair over 5 pounds.

 

[smokerjim]

That's a big eye, jerky looks great

 

[normanaj]

We never see them that big around here and definitely not at that price either.

 

[Brokenhandle]

Good snacks!

Ryan

 

[jcam222]

Looks like some tasty eating! I'd love to find a whopper like that at that price for some smoked deli style lunch meat

 

[motolife313-2]

Here is the monster eye sliced into 1/4” slabs, the bottom 4 cuts are like the normal size of a eye of round , was about 1/8” shy of being 7” wide, extremely lean to without much of a tendon running through so a sweet find!!

 

[Fueling Around]

Nice find. You must have scored a full eye.
The other package appeared to be a brisket?

Many of the grocery store eye of round packages are halved and halved. 12# is overwhelming for many.

 

[crazymoon]

ML313-2, Nice score , that EOR is a honker, it's my go to meat for jerky too. P.S. Love your trimming knife !

 

[hoity toit]

About 10 pounds of eye of round yesterday. Went to hair over 5 pounds. View attachment 715931View attachment 715932View attachment 715934View attachment 715933

those ARE BIG.,glad you made a good find. The jerky looks fantastic too.

HT

 

[uncle eddie]

Love EOR for jerky (only meat I use for jerky) and your jerky looks great.

I used to regularly buy the cryo-packs (at Sam's Club) but when i did the math, like you did, it was not worth the $0.15/lbs I was saving.

 

[motolife313-2]

Nice find. You must have scored a full eye.
The other package appeared to be a brisket?

Many of the grocery store eye of round packages are halved and halved. 12# is overwhelming for many.

No brisket in sight in this thread. That eye of round is just that big it looks like a bigger cut of meat. The bigger piece of meat on my tailgate is the 12.2 pound eye and the smaller one is a denuded eye that almost 6 pounds

 

[motolife313-2]

Ya I actually lose money and time when buying the eyes with fat. I’ve stopped buying them u less I find a giant like this. Not really enough fat for doing beef tallow which I’ve done several times and mostly silver skin so not really worth saving that tiny fat cap for fat

 

[motolife313-2]

10 pounds came out to 5 1/4 pounds and smoked it for 5 hours today at 140-160 with a weed burner pointed at a oak wood split, 4 pieces added up to 8 ounces

 

[mneeley490]

Nice find! Makes me want to wander down to my local Chef's Store and check them out.