Tucson Costco Today (Orange Grove)

[Willy]

Prime Tri-Tip: $8.49/#
Prime Brisket: $2.99/#
Chanterelles: $10.99/#
Pork Belly: $3.69/# (sliced into 1" strips, alas--I bought it to freeze chunks of pork fat for making chorizo and other sausages.)

[JoeSousa]

#LifeProTip - Buy the tri-tips by the case and they will be cheaper and not blade tenderized. You can also probably talk them into selling you a whole belly instead of sliced. They have the whole ones at my Costco all the time for about $2.89 per pound.

[JoeSousa]

The individual tri-tips I have seen have been blade tenderized. I bought a whole bag of them (5 in there I believe?) that wasn't tenderized. Had to do some trimming but it was about 20% less expensive IIRC than buying individually.

Check the label on the tri-tips and it will say if it was blade tenderized or not.

[Willy]

You are correct! It was blade tenderized! Why would anyone do that to beef that might be eaten rare???? Mucho thanks for the heads up!

[JoeSousa]

It really burns me up that they blade tenderize prime ribeye caps. Such a waste.

Here is a blog post I wrote about blade tenderizing a couple years back: http://completecarnivore.com/beware-...erized-steaks/ I know I would buy a lot more steaks from Costco if they didn't blade tenderize them.

[jgreen]

Nice find.

[Willy]

It was just a heads up for folks in the area.