Can you/do you buy hindquarter meat?

Raisin

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 11:34 am

Spinoff from another thread: Can you buy hindquarter meat in your butchers? Will you eat it if you can? Is it a sefardi or ashkenazi hechsher? where do you live?

(many kashrus authorities do not allow hindquarter meat since it is very difficult and time consuming to perform nikkur in the hindquarters)

For a precis of the subject see here. http://oukosher.org/index.php/.....im_i/

Chana Miriam S

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 11:45 am

Yum!

In israel, eating it when I can... Never saw it anywhere else. Bought in a mainstream grocery store with my Frum like me Israeli friend.

Once a friend brought a new York roast home from israel and three families split it. Good thing customs didn't stop him even though he declared it!

Thing I miss most about eating unkosher was new York steak....well, and shellfish but no onions for that anywhere kosher!

OOTBubby

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 11:50 am

Can't buy it where I live -- big city OOT USA. I'd use it (I'm a BT and grew up eating some of those cuts) if it was available with a hechsher I'd use (there aren't too many of those).

ally

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 1:03 pm

It is widely available in Israel.
I don't think you would be able to get it with a mehadrin ashkenazi hechsher, but it is definitely available with a mehadrin sefardi hechsher.

yo'ma

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 1:06 pm

We had it one time because once a shochet who knows how to do it came.

Raisin

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 1:33 pm

ally wrote:

It is widely available in Israel.
I don't think you would be able to get it with a mehadrin ashkenazi hechsher, but it is definitely available with a mehadrin sefardi hechsher.

is it more expensive?

ally

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 1:39 pm

Raisin wrote:

ally wrote:

It is widely available in Israel.
I don't think you would be able to get it with a mehadrin ashkenazi hechsher, but it is definitely available with a mehadrin sefardi hechsher.

is it more expensive?

Than regular steak? I think so. Most of the fancy restaurants serve it.

Chana Miriam S

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 3:25 pm

It was about 150 nis a kg last week, which is about $40 cad/us a pound

Raisin

Tue, Jul 03 2012, 3:38 pm

you mean $20 a pound.

Thats slightly more than I would pay for a rib steak. (the most expensive cut - $18 a pound - maybe/probably cheaper in the usa)

nylon

Thu, Jul 05 2012, 5:29 pm

I've never seen it for sale here, but I would buy it if they sold it with an acceptable hechsher (Sephardi is fine)

Soul on fire

Thu, Jul 05 2012, 10:06 pm

I would buy Filet Mignon if I could find it anywhere. I heard that it is sold in Pomegranate in NY but it's a bit of a hike for a cut of meat.

Isher

Thu, Jul 05 2012, 10:52 pm

FrumMamaPA wrote:

I would buy Filet Mignon if I could find it anywhere. I heard that it is sold in Pomegranate in NY but it's a bit of a hike for a cut of meat.

I don't think the filet mignon is the true filet mignon. I think it's a cut that is very similar. Lots of kosher butcher stores will name cuts that aren't really that cut - to sub the non kosher version.

Soul on fire

Fri, Jul 06 2012, 4:38 pm

Isher wrote:

FrumMamaPA wrote:

I would buy Filet Mignon if I could find it anywhere. I heard that it is sold in Pomegranate in NY but it's a bit of a hike for a cut of meat.

oh that's disappointing....that was my favorite cut in my prekosher days. Sad