Good deal? Maybe, maybe not!

[floridasteve]

I saw this at Sam's club the other day and thought if it looked as good on the inside as it does on the outside, it should be a good buy. After watching some YouTube videos on how to butcher a whole sirloin tip, I tore into it. And it looked great on the inside. Very lean, but not near as much gristle as eye of round.

I ended up with 4 piles. One larger roast that I smoked to slice into thin deli roast beef, one small roast that I’m going to thin slice raw for stir fry, a nice pile that I ground into hamburger with some brisket fat I had in the freezer, and I smallish pile of scrap.

The surprise came when I weighed the piles and added them up.


I WAS TWO POUNDS SHORT! I reweighed everything three times. I don’t know what could have happened to the 2 pounds. So the next time I go to Sam's I’m taking my scales to try and figure it out.

Having said that, I did smoke the larger roast today, and it is fantastic! A little chewy, but without the threads of gristle in eye of round and the flavor was superior. I just finished one of the hamburgers, and it was better than those I usually make from eye or round or even brisket.

 

[SecondHandSmoker]

$2.49 per lb for sirloin tip sounds like a good deal to me.
Why was it 2 lbs lite after dividing? Who knows?

 

[texomakid]

Man surely there was some shrinkage from when it was weighted to when you weighed it? I'd hate to think they were trying to rip anyone off? Got to be a logical reason?

 

[fivetricks]

Are you sure of the calibration of your scale at home? I'd sure hate to think that Sam's is putting a finger on their scale at the packaging plant. That would be enough to get me to never go in there to buy meat again .

 

[PolishDeli]

Am I reading your notes right?
Three piles are listed on the white board:
Lean=2.1lb
Roast/stakes=4.0lb
waste=1.1lb

That makes the total = 2.1+4.0+1.1 = 7.2lb, same as the packed weight.

 

[fivetricks]

Ha! Never looked at the pictures.

Math error ftl. Don't worry, we've all been there :-)

 

[floridasteve]

OH MY!!! Getting old is really a bitch! And math was always my strong point in school.

But, the silver lining is, it was very tasty—and now it’s also cheap!

 

[floridasteve]

Are you sure of the calibration of your scale at home? I'd sure hate to think that Sam's is putting a finger on their scale at the packaging plant. That would be enough to get me to never go in there to buy meat again .

I checked my scale and it was right on. However, I didn’t check my math