Bone-in Arm Roast Pot Roast

[johnec00]

Several years ago, I saw a Bearded Butchers YouTube comparing various cuts for pot roast. They liked bone-in arm roast best, and ever since I've wanted to try it. Local "butchers" eyes glazed over when I asked. A couple said they would check with their supplier, but came back only offering boneless.

A while back, Emily found a web source called Rockin' D on the Ridge that claimed to have it and for a reasonable price. Their web site was a bit crude, and the arm roast picture looked more like a shank so we were a bit reticent, but finally decided what the heck. We ordered 2 roasts advertised as 2.5-3 pounds for $26.25 each. For good measure we ordered "soup bones/shanks" for $8.00 for ~3 pounds. Shipping was $23.37, the exact amount of UPS shipment.

What we got was two nice looking arm roasts with delicious looking round marrow bones. Both slightly over 3 pounds


As received frozen good and solid.

Started by salting overnight and a quick sear on the griddle plate

Then plopped in slow cooker on top of carrots, baby spuds, and onions

About 8 hours later, this was the best pot roast I can ever remember

Too busy eating to remember further pictures..

And finally, 3+ pounds of really meaty shank bones.


Sorry if this posts seems like an advertisement for some little farm in western Illinois, but I'm very impressed and pleased!

[Jerod Broussard]

That's funny. I looked at that bone often growing up. Local slaughter house prolly never heard of the boneless variety.

[johnec00]

True dat. Today, apparently people just want boneless without knowing how much flavor they're missing. My gripe is how hard it is to find 7 bone chuck anywhere. That was the staple for beef in my house growing up.

[Jfrosty27]

Can you provide a link to them? The wifey has been asking for pot roast. I will try them.

[johnec00]

As Ace posted, but their web site (at least on computer) is a mess. From home go to "the ranch" then "about us" then scroll down to "shop the store" that leads to 29 pages of offerings. I have no idea why, but on computer just hitting "store" on the home page doesn't do much.??????

[SheilaAnn]

Yeah website is kind of a hot mess. You have to scroll through a lot of jewelry to see all the protein offerings. I bit.

[Jfrosty27]

I ised the link on my phone. No issues. I typed “arm roast” in the search box and boom. Right to it.

[Jerod Broussard]

Forgot I came back with a Round Steak from back home. Bone baby!!

[johnec00]

Nice!

[Purc]

This post made me get out my Crock Pot and try a 2.5 lb boneless chuckie with mushrooms, onions, baby carrots, petite mixed fingerling potatoes in beef broth and some cabernet. I haven't done this in years, but I was inspired by this thread to try one.

[Henrik]

Just a question on the name ”arm roast”. Last time I checked bovine creatures don’t have arms, Lol! Is this because it’s from the front legs, or something else? The roast sure looks good!

[Ace]

Good question.
From the internet:
An arm roast (often called arm pot roast, arm chuck roast, or round bone pot roast) is a flavorful, relatively inexpensive cut of beef taken from the shoulder area. 😊

[johnec00]

The arm is the portion of the fore quarter between the chuck and the shank. In other words, the round bone is the front leg bone.
This video is the one that turned me on to the particular cut. The illustration of the location of the arm starts at 1:15 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYAsuGtOHgc&t=1129s

[Henrik]

Thanks, then I wasn’t too far off.

[texastweeter]

Bone in chuck is where its at for me.

[Oak Smoke]

My wife feels the same way. When we have a steer processed she gives them instructions on leaving the bone in her chuck roast. She makes a killer chuck roast so I’m all for it.

[texastweeter]

Oak Smoke same with the sirloin, leave the pin bone in it. Our slaughter house also cuts shell steaks (bone in NY strip). Since we go bone in on everything, he forges the kill fee. Says its worth $50 to not have to bone out everything then dice to grind.