Can you get a decent steak anymore?

[okie sawbones]

I like to cook beef tips and noodles occasionally. I use beef tenderloin tips and found some at Creekstone Farms for a decent price. I added on two prime NY strips.

When I opened the 'prime' NY strips, they looked more like select grade. They were seared 3 minutes per side, to a medium rare. Long story short, they were tough, very tough. The wife and I fed them to our dogs, who had no complaints. What a major disappointment.

As they say, fool me once, shame on you. I will place no more orders with them. Other suggestions on tender steaks?

 

[chopsaw]

I'm not buying many steaks these days . I've never bought into the mail order stuff .
I was cutting my own ribeyes , but to much money to do it now .
I did just buy a managers special 3 pack of ribeyes with some really nice cap meat . Marked " Down " to 23 bucks for the 3 . They were thin and only 8 oz. each . Good though .

So I go to the store and see what they have , then check the sell by date . Come back the day of , and see if anything is marked down .
I just did that with some chicken leg 1/4's . They were on sale for .99 a lb . I bought 3 trays for 4 bucks a tray . Came back 2 days later , and found them in the deal isle for 2 bucks a tray . So .50 cents a lb .

 

[sandyut]

Store bought is a roll of the dice. I did snag a few SRF NY strips. those were quite good.

But as Rich said, I dont by too many these days, or beef in general. its so costly. And I feel like the overall quality is down from a decade ago.